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13-Oct-2008

Glowing proteins lead the way to the Chemistry Nobel Prize

The 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded equally to three chemists "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP),” one of the most important tools in bioscience.

Qiagen buys Biosystems business from Biotage

Dutch sample and assay technology expert Qiagen has continued its march into the detection system market with the acquisition of Biotage’s Biosystems business.

10-Oct-2008

Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for the discovery of HIV and HPV

The scientists who discovered the viruses responsible for causing AIDS and cervical cancer have been honoured with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

09-Oct-2008

Tripos to work with AZ on drug design software

Drug discovery informatics and services provider Tripos International has continued to flourish under the ownership of Vector Capital and is collaborating with AstraZeneca (AZ) to improve drug discovery workflows.

Bio-Quant expands animal diagnostic services

San Diego-based biotechnology contract research organisation (CRO) Bio-Quant has expanded its animal diagnostic services offering to cover all nine species used in medical research.

05-Oct-2008

GE Healthcare turns up heat on interactions with MicroCal buy

GE Healthcare has bought label-free molecular interaction analysis expert MicroCal to bolster its label-free analysis offering to life science and pharmaceutical customers.

Bio-Rad speeds up antibody screening

Bio-Rad has published new results showing how its ProteOn XPR36 protein interaction array system can dramatically speed up monoclonal antibody (mAb) screening.

01-Oct-2008

FEI to light-up Sun Pharma’s research

India’s Sun Pharmaceutical has installed a 3D imaging system from FEI Company to speed up the development of new therapeutics and aid its quality control processes.

Novasep expands chiral chromatography offering

French firm Novasep has significantly boosted its ability to provide customers with enantiomerically pure compounds with the addition of a new chiral chromatography unit.

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