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Cells caught in a 'tractor beam'

Nikon halves imaging time with new integrated microscope

Gene Logic drops genomics and name for drug repositioning

Imaging the 'spectroscopic signature of life'

Product news in brief - week 44

 
   
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GSK blocks new patent rules

Treating cancer as infectious disease yields results

Future of satraplatin uncertain

UK updates clinical trial negotiation system to include CROs

 
 

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Cells caught in a 'tractor beam'
US researchers have developed a 'tractor beam' that that can pick up, hold and move individual cells around a microchip surface - paving the way for more sensitive biological devices... Read


Nikon halves imaging time with new integrated microscope
Nikon has launched a new inverted microscope range that promises to more than half the time of an imaging experiment while enabling more simultaneous applications... Read


Gene Logic drops genomics and name for drug repositioning
After selling of its genomics business to Ocimum Biosolutions, Gene Logic is to change its name to Ore Pharmaceuticals as it looks to mine out new indications for drugs... Read


Imaging the 'spectroscopic signature of life'
Japanese researchers have used an advanced microspectroscopy technique to study the cell cycle of yeast without the need for fluorescent imaging agents that can potentially alter the cellular environment... Read


Product news in brief - week 44
LabTechnologist.com brings you its periodic round up of product news, with announcements from Air Science, Beckman Coulter, Bio-Rad, Biohit, Carl Zeiss SMT, Proxeon, Shimadzu and Thermo Fisher Scientific... Read


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GSK blocks new patent rules
Just a day before they were due to come into force, GlaxoSmithKline has won a court case to block controversial changes to patent rules... Read


Treating cancer as infectious disease yields results
For the first time, scientists have found a way to target viral antigens deep inside a cancer tumour, and the result is a new therapy that could treat or even prevent the disease... Read


Future of satraplatin uncertain
GPC Biotech has met another obstacle in its path towards satraplatin approval after the German company announced disappointing and unexpected results in its Phase III trial... Read


UK updates clinical trial negotiation system to include CROs
An update to the contract negotiation system for hospital-based clinical trials has come into play in the UK - in a further effort to take some of the pain out of the process and speed up trial start-up times... Read

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Pfizer partners in shock after surprise Exubera exit

We've all cringed at stories of people dumping their partners via text message but in the world of business, Pfizer seems to have taken things to a new level when its Exubera partners were allegedly left to find out the product was being scrapped through a press release. Read



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Big pharma reaches to Summit for zebrafish safety screening
Summit (formerly Vastox) has signed a $450,000 (€312,000) deal with one of the world's top five pharma firms to enable it to use Summit's zebrafish-platform in its drug safety programme... Read


Applied Biosystems and Celera return first quarter profits
Applied Biosystems (ABI) saw 5 per cent revenue growth during its first quarter of fiscal 2008 as sister company Celera posted revenue growth of 57 per cent... Read


Thermo Fisher Scientific reports record Q3 results
Thermo Fisher Scientific saw revenues for the third quarter of 2007 rise to $2.4bn (€1.7bn) with its Analytical Technologies division growing 12 per cent with quarterly sales of $1.04bn... Read


Industry news in brief - week 44
LabTechnologist.com brings you its periodic round up of industry news, with developments at Barloworld Scientific, Beckman Coulter, Harvard Biosciences, Inverness, Nonlinear Dynamics, Oxford Biomedica and ThalesNano... Read


Sulphur analysis speeds up protein quantification
Chinese researchers have developed a way to quickly quantify protein abundance using a mass spectrometry technique (MS) commonly used for elemental analysis... Read

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