Russ Swan, Editor, writes:
We see from your search that you're looking for information on the term "Pharmaceutical Companies",
and we have a large number of manufacturers' news releases and technical articles here on Laboratorytalk which will be of interest.
Let me be your guide.
Start with
the news release Novexin will be known as Expedeon from
Novexin, which we summarised at the time by saying "Name change 'reflects vision for allowing clients to rapidly access powerful technology that is having a significant impact on protein production and analysis in major pharma and biotech
companies'".
The day before,
we featured the news release Genetic tests for psychiatric bipolar disorder from
Psynomics: "Psynomics has announced that two tests for bipolar disorder are available for purchase on its website, along with descriptions, references and instructions".
In January 2008, we covered the news from Starlims
concerning its Starlims v10
- take a look at Major pharma selects Starlims
which says: "Starlims Technologies reports that is has been selected by one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies for a $2.1 million Lims project".
Take a look also at the news release from Bio-Rad Laboratories, Guides to Gene Pulser MXcell now available,
as well as 'Best supplier' of scientific reference materials from LGC,
and Pilot study on Jak2 cancer biomarker from Ipsogen.
See also:
Deal to speed development of new therapies
(November 2007)
BellBrook Labs, a provider of high throughput screening tools for drug discovery, reports that Cisbio is adopting its Transcreener HTS assay platform as part of a technology licensing agreement
Remote monitoring and diagnostics on GC and GC/MS
(November 2007)
Agilent's Intelligent Services remote instrument monitoring and diagnostics is now available for the 6890/7890 gas chromatograph (GC) systems and 5973/5975 gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC/MS)
Appointments round-up, November 2007
(November 2007)
A collection of movers and shakers who have changed position recently in the laboratory sector, part one of a new series of reports
Fourth major release of Proteon Manager software
(November 2007)
Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced the introduction of Proteon Manager 2.0, its latest Proteon XPR36 protein interaction array system data management software
Tablet press takes on low-cost Asian machines
(November 2007)
Isopak says it has launched a UK fightback in a global market dominated by low cost manufacturers from Asia by launching a new European version of the tablet press from Italian firm Dott Bonapace
Way to quickly optimise electroporation conditions
(November 2007)
The MXcell system is fully programmable and can deliver up to 24 different electroporation protocols in a single 96-well plate in two minutes or less
Micro-filling system has 50% increased throughput
(November 2007)
Capsugel will unveil successor to Xcelodose system for micro-dosing drug powders into capsules and vials at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) meeting in San Diego this month
Collaboration to improve drug-discovery efficiency
(October 2007)
Agilent Technologies and BioTrove have signed an agreement to co-market the Agilent 6410 triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with BioTrove's RapidFire high-throughput sample preparation systems
Lims stability study module for pharmaceutical QA
(October 2007)
Partnership provides a comprehensive protocol design, management and compliant lab procedure execution platform for stability studies in a multi-site pharmaceutical quality operation
New Lims promises reduced implementation time
(September 2007)
New laboratory information management system from Applied Biosystems is said to bring efficiency and cost effectiveness to drug development and manufacturing processes
Nanostream enters European market
(September 2007)
As part of its growth strategy in Europe, Netherlands office will facilitate sales of Nanostream's micro parallel liquid chromatography products and assay development services to European scientists
Pharmaceutical testing in West Lothian
(September 2007)
A new £4 million pharmaceutical testing facility that will help to boost Scotland's capabilities in the life sciences sector was officially opened in Livingston this week
Batch characterisation of polysorbates
(August 2007)
ESA Biosciences says pharmaceutical manufacturing operations involving polysorbates just got easier and more precise, thanks to a new analysis method it has developed
PolyTherics and BioVectra sign manufacturing deal
(August 2007)
PolyTherics, a biopharmaceutical spin-out company from Imperial College London and the London School of Pharmacy has signed a manufacturing and bilateral representation agreement with BioVectra
Radio HPLC survey shows move to liquid flow cells
(August 2007)
LabLogic Systems has released data from one of its surveys that shows a rapidly growing preference for liquid rather solid flow cells amongst radio HPLC users working on drug metabolism studies
E-Workbook validated against 21 CFR and GLP
(August 2007)
E-Workbook has been validated against the regulations since 2006 and now the full E-Workbook Suite, including BioBook and ChemBook, has been successfully validated
The bio-engineered bladder comes closer to reality
(July 2007)
Researchers at University of York use an understanding of the special cells that line the bladder to develop ways of restoring continence to patients with serious bladder conditions, including cancer
Large-scale expression profiling of small RNAs
(July 2007)
Applied Biosystems has announced the release of the first TaqMan assays for microRNA (miRNA) analysis that are configured in an array format
Biotech China's 'successful premiere' in Shanghai
(July 2007)
Europe's biggest biotechnology fair has extended its international portfolio and recently celebrated the launch of the new overseas fair Biotech China, which took place from 4 to 6 July 2007
Phlexglobal wins IiP status
(July 2007)
Phlexglobal, a specialist CRO for clinical trial administration and study site support, has secured Investors in People (IiP) status and has been recognised by assessors as a model of excellence
EC medicines head to deliver keynote at ICR
(July 2007)
The head of the innovative medicines initiative at the European Commission, Irene Norstedt, is to deliver keynote address at ICR European conference in November 2007
Southern hemisphere monoclonal antibody production
(July 2007)
Tecan and Monash Antibody Technologies Facility announce a partnership to create one of the largest, most sophisticated monoclonal antibody production systems in the world today
European groups for Malvern chemical imaging users
(June 2007)
Malvern's recently launched Synirgi system underlines the continuing migration of NIR-CI technology from its specialist roots into routine use as a highly desirable, quantitative analytical tool
Chips and snips for personalised medicine
(June 2007)
From genetic testing for diagnostic purposes to protein analyses on chips, the latest tools in molecular biology and bioanalysis will be the focus of Analytica 2008, Munich 1-4 April 2008
Bioequivalence software to speed clinical trials
(June 2007)
Thermo Fisher and Megaware say they will market 'comprehensive end-to-end software' which provides bioequivalence functionality on a single platform to help speed up and manage clinical trials
Intertek acquires Quantitative Technologies (QTI)
(June 2007)
QTI is a contract analytical research and development laboratory that has been serving the pharmaceutical, medical device and drug delivery industry in North America for over 15 years
Grant to develop 'decisive' drug discovery tool
(June 2007)
DeltaDot and Integrated Technologies have been awarded a £465,000 grant from the South East England Development Agency (Seeda) for the development of a tool for drug discovery and biopharmaceuticals
Novel agent for detection of reactive metabolites
(May 2007)
QA-GSH, a quaternary ammonium glutathione analogue conjugating agent, can provide semiquantitative assessment of bioactivation potential for semiquantitative LC-MS/MS detection of reactive metabolite
Cancer Research Technology laboratories to expand
(May 2007)
The development laboratories, working on an industrial model in collaboration with the originating academics, will double in size with the number of scientists increasing from about 45 to 90
European award for LBIC
(May 2007)
London Bioscience Innovation Centre chosen as the 'Entrepreneurial Spirit and Knowledge-Based Enterprise Creation' winner in European Awards of University-Industry Co-operation with Regional Impact
ESA expands service to European customers
(May 2007)
Support centre in St Neots, UK, provides enhanced customer service and support throughout Europe for ESA's HPLC detectors, including the popular Corona Cad (charged aerosol detector)
FlashQuant combines triple quad MS with Maldi
(April 2007)
The FlashQuant platform is described as the first commercially available system to combine industry-standard triple quadrupole mass spectrometry with widely-used Maldi technology
Maldi/triple quad combo speeds up drug discovery
(April 2007)
The new FlashQuant mass spectrometry platform from Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex is the first commercially available system to combine triple quadrupole mass spectrometry with Maldi technology
Six of the top 20 pharmas chose Mosaic
(April 2007)
Titian Software announced at SBS that, with orders already planned for delivery in 2007, six of the top 20 pharma have chosen Mosaic as their sample management software