Germany's BASF has been awarded a US patent covering a new coating
agent, binder and/or film-forming excipient, based on
polyether-containing polymers, which can be used in pharmaceutical
formulations
UK-based laboratory instrumentation supplier Presearch has added a
new evaporator to its product range that is claimed to allow for
rapid evaporation of solvent from samples
Laureate Pharma of the USA has commissioned a new automated
chromatography system for Good Manufacturing Practice-compliant
purification of protein products
BASF has announced that later this summer it will temporarily
suspend production of the amino acid lysine at its facility in
Gunsan, Korea, due to essential maintenance work
Dutch biotechnology company Crucell has announced a new project
aimed at developing a vaccine for West Nile virus, a flu-like
illness that can cause a brain infection with a mortality rate of 1
per cent
Tepnel Life Sciences sees its shares soar after announcing the
first sale of its Nucleopure DNA purification system to an unnamed
UK pharmaceuticals group
Canadian chromatography and mass spectrometry specialist Waters has
introduced a series of new products at the ongoing ASMS meeting in
Montreal, Canada
The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has
asked for prescribing restrictions on GlaxoSmithKline's
widely-prescribed antidepressant Seroxat.
Owens-Illinois has launched a line of child-resistant 'squeeze and
turn' packages that incorporate a closure and bottle system
suitable for solid oral dose uses
West Pharmaceutical Services is rolling out its Westar RS
sterilized component service, formerly only available from its US
facilities, at sites in France, Germany and Singapore.
Trident has launched a new ink jet printing system, called
SolidJet, that is specially designed to print packaging for
pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and personal care products.
GEA Filtration has introduced a microfiltration plant for the
PharmaChem industries that, it claims, can perform studies on the
full range of filtration technologies using all types of filter
membrane.
Dutch firm Crucell has expanded its licensing agreement with US
drug major Merck & Co relating to PER.C6, the former's
proprietary cell technology platform used for the production of
biopharmaceutical products.
Ireland's QUMAS has said it will launch its latest regulatory
compliance product, QUMAS Visa, at the 39th Annual Meeting of the
Drug Information Association in San Antonio, Texas, 15-19 June.
One of Pfizer Global R&D's major research facilities, based in
Nerviano, Italy, has signed an expanded agreement with PerkinElmer
in which the latter will provide repair, maintenance and validation
services for sophisticated...
The European Commission has published a draft monograph in the
European Pharmacopoeia for BASF's recently-introduced
sustained-release coating polymer Kollicoat SR 30 D and a modified
monograph for Kollicoat MAE 30 DP.
Thermo Electron Corp has presented a new range of instruments at
the ACHEMA meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, including what it says is
the world's first mass spectrometer to combine Ion Trap and Fourier
Transform Ion Cyclotron...
Cambridge Antibody Technology of the UK has signed up for a
non-exclusive licence to a technology, developed by Canada's
Chromos Molecular Systems, for the commercial manufacture of
biologics.
Celsis International of the UK, a specialist in diagnostic systems
to detect and measure microbial contamination for the
pharmaceutical, personal care and food industries, has signed up
Boots Manufacturing (BM) as a new customer.
Three major players will try to recover costs from Pan
Pharmaceuticals after Australia's largest ever medical products
recall, reports IndustrySearch.com.
BioInnovators, a USA-based consultancy serving the pharmaceutical
and biotech industries, has developed a new set of tools designed
to help pharmaceutical and dietary supplement companies understand
and improve cost and time efficiencies...
ChemAxon, Hungarian company that provides software solutions for
biotechnology, has released its latest version of the Java database
engine enabling chemical communication across networks.
UK packaging giant Rexam, a major producer of pharmaceutical
closures and one of the world's top five consumer packaging groups,
has introduced a range of LDPE and foil laminate bags and drum
liners manufactured in a cGMP compliant...
Amersham Biosciences has launched a new range of ultrafiltration
cassettes, under the Kvick brand, which it claims "help to speed up
bioprocessing timelines by offering an easy way to separate,
concentrate and diafilter biological...
A UK-based company has become the first to offer a blister
packaging product for pharmaceuticals that meets the BS 8404
standard, which covers packs that are child-resistant but also
allow easy access for the elderly and others who...
Kisters Kayat has launched its Ultra-Flexible Packaging Cell,
designed to take primary packages all the way from production line
to bundled packs, trays or cases and finished pallet.
German packaging company Bosch Packaging Technology will reveal a
host of products at the upcoming exhibition on chemical engineering
and biotechnology to be held in Frankfurt, Germany in May this
year. Brand new on the stand, filling...
The $7.3 billion (€6.8bn) global market for non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs could soon include an upstart competitor
whose new product holds the promise of allaying joint pain but
without the gastrointestinal side effects often...
Amersham Biosciences has launched a new DNA Amplification Kit,
GenomiPhi, which it says can simplify the DNA preparation process
and enable high-quality DNA to be prepared from a limited amount of
biological material.
Genetics-based drug discovery company CompleGen is to supply Berlex
Biosciences, a US affiliate of German company Schering, with a high
throughput assay system for discovery of compounds active against a
novel target identified by...
Sweden's Biacore International, a specialist in surface plasmon
resonance technologies, has launched its Biacore 3000 GxP (Good
Manufacturing Practice/Good Laboratory Practice) Package, which
will strengthen the system's...
Anglo-German company Proteome Sciences has developed a new reagent
that it claims can dramatically enhance the sensitivity of mass
spectrometers for the identification of proteins.
Scientists in Australia report this week that they have developed a
powerful software modelling tool, MolSAR, which could have the
potential to reduce drug development costs by up to €28 million per
drug.
Dharmacon, a US supplier of RNA and RNA-interference research
products, announced today it has launched Cell Cycle siARRAY, a
collection of ready-to-use siRNA duplexes designed to knock down
112 genes involved in cell cycle regulation.
A series of new flow cytometry products will soon hit the market
with the announcement yesterday from US companies BD Biosciences
and Molecular Probes that, following a recent license agreement, BD
Biosciences Pharmingen has launched...
Specialists in cellular analysis Cyntellect this week announced the
issuance of a new patent covering the company's Laser Enabled
Analysis and Processing (LEAP) technology platform.
For years, it has been common wisdom in the pharmaceutical industry
that delivery of drugs via the nose only really works if the
compound can be presented in liquid form. One company begging to
differ is Britannia Pharmaceuticals...
Aclara BioSciences, a US company involved in tools for drug
discovery, this week introduced new toxicology applications that
expand the capabilities of the eTag Assay System.
Amersham Biosciences has launched a new bench-top separations
system for purifying proteins, äKTApilot, which for the first time
allows scientists to carry out process development right through to
small-scale production using a single...
Developer of life science tools Bruker Daltonics has introduced a
new research instrument for proteomics research at the laboratory
science exhibition Pittcon, taking place in the US this week.
UK microbial testing company Celsis International announced this
week that food giant Nestle has selected Celsis' recently launched
milk and cream diagnostic system for its global Research &
Development site in Konolfingen.
Amarin corporation this week confirmed that its Swedish subsidiary
Amarin Development AB, as part of an agreement with Watson
Pharmaceuticals, has developed a generic formulation of glipizide
extended release tablets.
Foss, a Danish manufacturer of analytical instruments, announced
recently that it has improved the quality assurance (QA) module for
its instrument WineScan.
Roche Molecular Systems, the in vitro diagnostics element of
Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche said this week that its
supplement to the AMPLICOR(TM) HIV-1 Test, version 1.5 has been
accepted for review by the US Food and Drug Administration...
Two suppliers to the life sciences industry, Amersham Biosciences
and Thermo Electron are to jointly market and sell mass
spectrometry-based proteomics solutions for protein scientists.
Genicon Sciences this week launched its second Resonance Light
Scattering (RLS) technology product - an RLS-based two-colour
nucleic Acid microarray toolkit for gene expression analysis.
