Experiments on semiconductors reveal a new way to study and control crystallisation. The discovery has relevance to pharmaceutical manufacturing as many drugs are made from small molecules that must crystallise in just the right way to have the proper...
Contract drug developer Particle Sciences has recently chosen China-based CRO Crystal Pharmatech to analyse the bioavailability and material properties of its developing compounds, and the collaboration may turn into a joint venture.
Almac Sciences, part of global contracting group Almac, chose this year’s Informex in San Francisco, US to showcase its solid state chemistry (SSC) services to drugmakers in North America.
The pharmaceutical industry could save millions by adopting new
crystal monitoring technology, according to research published in
Crystal Growth and Design.
Prosonix and Bath University in the UK have won the Royal Society
of Chemistry's (RSC) Innovation award for the development of a tool
that enables the manufacture of crystalline pharmaceuticals of
specific sizes.
A unique approach to drug development could be on the horizon after
researchers utilised a method to crystallise proteins that would
allow better examination of proteins, leading to the production of
targeted drugs.
Dutch instrumentation specialist PANalytical has added new options
to its X'Pert PRO MPD X-ray diffractometer, providing a total
solution for high throughput diffraction and analysing almost any
material.
The world's first commercial-scale continuous sonocrystallisation
system promises to revolutionise the way crystals are processed in
pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Thermo Electron has revamped its Array Automation software for
Raman spectrometers, in a move which it says enables pharmaceutical
companies to reduce the polymorph and crystal analysis workload in
drug discovery laboratories.
Pharmaceutical companies will be able to reduce their polymorph and
crystal analysis workload in their drug discovery laboratories
after Thermo Electron upgraded its array automation software for
Raman spectrometers.
The rapid growth in the development and commercialisation of new
biological entities (NBEs) has been one of the major trends in the
pharmaceutical sector over the last few years, but their production
can be said to be more of an art...
Formulatrix and Bruker AXS have pooled their resources to speed up
the process of high-throughput protein crystallography, a key
process in the identification of protein structure and function.
An imaging system that promises to take the tedium out of protein
crystallisation experiments made its European debut at last week's
International Biotech conference in London, UK.
Swiss drugmaker Roche has succeeded in developing a crystalline
form of one of its pipeline compounds with the help of a US
company, TransForm Pharmaceuticals, that is applying a
high-throughput approach to form and formulation.
Iceland-based deCODE genetics announced this week that AstraZeneca
has entered into an agreement to purchase its RoboHTC automated
protein crystallography platform, earmarked for AstraZeneca's drug
discovery sites in Alderley...