Drug development and biomedical company Thuris and Italian
pharmaceutical company Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite on
Monday announced an expansion of their ongoing research
collaboration to develop compounds to combat brain...
In the second news of the day on a European life science company,
DSM announced this week that from now on it will supply
technologies and services for the initial development phases of new
medicines - supplementing its existing service...
Japanese company Kaken Pharmaceutical and US Elitra Pharmaceuticals
said yesterday that they are to collaborate on a multi-year
research project for the discovery and development of novel
anti-fungal drugs.
Danish company Novozymes announced yesterday that the US Department
of Energy (DOE) has approved the third year of funding for
Novozymes' three-year subcontract to develop more cost-efficient
enzymes for ethanol production.
Isis Innovation, the wholly-owned technology transfer company of
Oxford University, reports this week that researchers at the
university's Inorganic Chemistry laboratory have found that they
can intercalate a range of pharmaceutically...
France needs to invest more in the emerging 'revolutionary' science
of nanotechnologies if it is to remain competitive in this
promising field, a French parliamentary committee has recommended.
Drug discovery company Pharmacopeia and healthcare business
AstraZeneca have extended their research collaboration. The
companies announced this week that they will shift their efforts
from the generation of screening libraries to...
3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals (3DP) said this week that the
research term under its thrombin collaboration with two of the
Johnson & Johnson family of companies, Centocor and Johnson
& Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development,...
US Pharmacopeia has entered into a research collaboration focused
on inflammation with Celgene Corporation. The companies will work
together to identify promising small molecule lead compounds
suitable for further development.
Large Scale Biology Corporation (LSBC) has started a research
collaboration with Novozymes Biotech to apply LSBC's gene shuffling
and molecular evolution technologies to genes of interest to
Novozymes Biotech.
The chemical cousin of vitamin A is thought to restore production
of a key protein, which has been damaged by cigarettes in the lungs
of former smokers, and protects the cells against lung cancer,
according to new findings published...
Danish vegetable oils and fats company Aarhus Oliefabrik announced
yesterday that together with Astion, it will increase the
development portfolio of BSP Pharma principally using oil from the
African shea nut.
Growing and steady interest in herbal supplements, particularly in
the US, is spurring demand for plant-derived chemicals. According
to a new report figures show that in the US growth is expected to
rise by 6.8 per cent annually in...
The structure of a key energy-releasing enzyme found in all animals
is designed to minimise free radical production, an international
team of researchers report in this week's Science.
Canadian drug development company Ecopia BioSciences on Monday
announced that it had filed patent applications for the first two
novel compounds using its proprietary drug discovery platform -
suggesting investments by the company...
A study carried out in China revealed that farmers mixing rice varieties in the paddies were rewarded with bigger harvests than single rice variety plantings....
