02-Dec-2008 - Applied Cytometry (AC) hopes its VenturiOne v3 software, which is capable of processing 400 files in under 10 seconds, will win over drug developers looking to expedite large-scale laboratory analysis.
02-Dec-2008 - Quintiles Transnational has boosted its array of services for companies developing cancer drugs via the purchase of Illinois, US-based firm Targeted Molecular Diagnostics.
27-Nov-2008 - The US CRO market is predicted to have a healthy future, with the greatest potential for growth in the preclinical sector, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan.
24-Nov-2008 - UK company ProImmune has launched a suite of services to help drugmakers determine at an early stage whether a biologic drug will elicit an immune response in humans.
17-Nov-2008 - US company Smithers Group has launched a formulation services company to tap into the emerging trend towards outsourcing of drug development among pharmaceutical companies.
13-Nov-2008 - Chinese contract research organisation WuXi PharmaTech has won a three-year contract with Pfizer to provide in vitro testing services.
27-Oct-2008 - Covance has given more details of its plans for China, with CEO Joe Herring suggesting there will not be a big shift in work from the US and Europe to the nation.
23-Oct-2008 - AgilityBio, a division of BioImagene, and Advinus Therapeutics, have teamed up to bolt on imaging services to the latter’s existing preclinical development offering.
20-Oct-2008 - Johnson & Johnson has tapped Chinese WuXi PharmaTech for additional R&D services, following the trend towards high-level, strategic collaborations between drugmakers and contract research organisations.
16-Oct-2008 - Tepnel Life Sciences has expanded its pharmaceutical services offering by becoming the UK’s first genetic analysis services provider to use Illumina’s next-generation iScan system.
16-Oct-2008 - Charles River Laboratories has opened a new preclinical development facility in Shanghai, China which, the firm says, will act as a centre of excellence and help strengthen its position in the global outsourcing market.
09-Oct-2008 - San Diego-based biotechnology contract research organisation (CRO) Bio-Quant has expanded its animal diagnostic services offering to cover all nine species used in medical research.
09-Oct-2008 - Drug discovery informatics and services provider Tripos International has continued to flourish under the ownership of Vector Capital and is collaborating with AstraZeneca (AZ) to improve drug discovery workflows.
06-Oct-2008 - The much-trumpeted partnership between China’s WuXi PharmaTech and Covance to provide ‘world class preclinical research services’ has been called off.
28-Sep-2008 - UK-based automation expert, Astech Projects, has been signed up to assist a ‘top 5 pharmaceutical company’ just months after launching its new automation maintenance service.
27-Sep-2008 - Indian pharmaceutical companies are making their first forays in the biotechnology arena, helping the market expand from a standing start at the beginning of the decade to reach a value of $2bn in 2006-7, according to a recent report from KPMG.
23-Sep-2008 - Phylogeny has launched the first microRNA (miRNA) in situ hybridisation detection service to help scientists delve deeper into the mechanisms controlling key biological processes.
23-Sep-2008 - Ion channel expert ChanTest is expanding its range of ion channel services and cell lines that help identify promising target compounds and those that could cause harmful side effects.
18-Sep-2008 - UK-based Pharmaceutical Profiles has used an imaging technique known as scintigraphy to quantify the effects of Amylin / Eli Lilly’s latest diabetes drug on the stomach.
17-Sep-2008 - Charles River Laboratories has agreed to buy US-based drug discovery imaging expert Molecular Imaging Research, Inc. (MIR) for approximately $12.5m (€8.8m) in cash.
16-Sep-2008 - Assay Depot, a new online marketplace which allows bench researchers around the world to choose and buy a broad range of drug discovery services, went live yesterday.
11-Sep-2008 - BioReliance has had to significantly expand its Rockville, US, facility and hire new staff in order to accommodate the growing demand for its genetic toxicology (GeneTox) testing services.
11-Sep-2008 - Drug discovery informatics and services provider, Tripos International, has agreed to buy Pharsight Corporation, a provider of software and strategic services for clinical drug development.
08-Sep-2008 - UK analytical services expert, Quotient Bioscience has received a significant equity investment from TA Associates to help further the firm’s acquisition-led and organic growth strategy.
04-Sep-2008 - Caliper Life Sciences has launched two new kinase profiling services as well as new assay kits that aim to provide researchers with a better understanding of their kinase inhibitor drug candidates.