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Cambrex predicts flat generic API sales for 2016

Cambrex to start work on Pharma 4 API site in 2016

By Gareth Macdonald

Cambrex has said it will invest around $20m in its Pharma 4 API facility before the end of the year in an effort to get ahead of the capacity utilisation curve.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft nears the International Space Station during the CRS-8 mission to deliver experiments and supplies to the International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA)

Dispatches from BIO 2016

Drug development in space: how microgravity enables pharma

By Melissa Fassbender

Eli Lilly is conducting several experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) US National Laboratory over the next year – with several implications for pharma back on Earth.

PCI Synthesis sets up polymers development lab

PCI Synthesis sets up polymers development lab

By Gareth Macdonald

API manufacturer PCI Synthesis has set up a polymer development group citing growing drug industry demand for advanced coating technologies and excipient technologies.

Open biomedical data is powerful, but the stability of resources has made it difficult to achieve. (Image: iStock/PhotoBylove)

Building a better biomedical knowledgebase

By Melissa Fassbender

Researchers as The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) are working to create a public database where researchers can easily access biomedical knowledge.