ReceptoPharm, a subsidiary of US biotechnology company Nutra Pharma, is to start offering contract research and manufacturing services for life science companies.
Canadian contract manufacturing organisation PharmEng International, which has been hit by dwindling cash reserves in recent months, got a boost last week when its subsidiary Keata Pharma was awarded a C$3m research grant.
A federal scientist has been charged with criminal conflict of
interest after he allegedly performed consultancy work that
improperly overlapped with government work.
Scientists, who have been studying the venoms of deadly,
sea-dwelling cone snails, believe they have discovered a new target
for painkillers, which could represent a new previously
unrecognised mechanism for treating pain.
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their research that may
change the way inflammatory conditions are treated by focusing on
certain nerve cell receptors in the brain that control inflammation
in the body.