Archives for May 31, 2009

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Outsourcing-Pharma.com acquired by William Reed Business Media

Decision News Media, publisher of Outsourcing-Pharma.com, in-PharmaTechnologist.com and 15 other websites serving the international food, nutrition, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, has been acquired by the leading UK business-to-business...

Emerson wins Singapore bio plant contract

By Gareth Macdonald

Industrial automation specialist Emerson Process Management has won the contract to help Swiss life sciences group Lonza design its new biopharmaceuticals plant in Singapore.

BioTrove unveils RapidFire 300 at ASMS

By Gareth Macdonald

BioTrove is taking aim at the drug development sector with its RapidFire 300 absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination (ADME) screening system that, it claims, can analyse samples in a fraction of the time taken by traditional HPLC.

PRA opens drug safety centre in Brazil

By Nick Taylor

PRA International has opened a drug safety centre in São Paulo, Brazil, expanding its presence in Latin America and bringing its array of services to a new market.

Power outages cost India $9.2bn in 2008

By Nick Taylor

Power outages cost India $9.2bn (€6.5bn) in 2008, according to a report, with the disruptions causing direct losses in numerous sectors, including pharma and biotech.

Chocks away for nano prop delivery research?

By Gareth Macdonald

US scientists at Harvard University’s Rowland Institute have described a way of making large numbers of controllable nano-propellers that, despite being at an early stage of development, may one day be used to deliver drugs.