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Stem cell breakthrough avoids the embryo controversy

Ventana reluctantly opens up to Roche in a bid to boost offer

Accelrys offers academics its scientific operating system for free

Fluorotechnics buys into electrophoresis market

Product news in brief - week 46

 
   
Related Industry News
 
Pfizer, Nektar agreement not so sweet after all?

Evotec's metamorphosis erodes profit

Practice run for pharma RFID

China gets serious on drug GMP; safety pact with FDA imminent

 
 

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Stem cell breakthrough avoids the embryo controversy
US researchers have developed a way of creating primate embryonic stem cells that avoids the need to use fertilised embryos, potentially leading to more ethical ways of curing degenerative diseases... Read


Ventana reluctantly opens up to Roche in a bid to boost offer
In the latest twist in Roche's fight to acquire diagnostics expert Ventana, the companies have signed a confidentiality agreement that will enable the pharma giant access to Ventana's books... Read


Accelrys offers academics its scientific operating system for free
Accelrys is offering its SciTegic scientific operating system to academics for free to enable them to create software applications and share them with both academic and commercial communities... Read


Fluorotechnics buys into electrophoresis market
Australian proteomics fluorescence expert Fluorotechnics has acquired ETC Elektrophorese-Technik to gain access to the company's electrophoresis expertise and product lines... Read


Product news in brief - week 46
LabTechnologist.com brings you its periodic update of new product releases, with offerings from Bio-Rad, BTX, Hitachi, Mettler Toledo, Syrris, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Tripos Intl., Warner and Whitehouse... Read


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Pfizer, Nektar agreement not so sweet after all?
Pfizer yesterday announced a multi-million dollar pay-off to ex-partner Nektar Therapeutics, but the details of the deal reveal not only Nektar's concerns for its future, but also that Pfizer is still keeping its... Read


Evotec's metamorphosis erodes profit
Evotec's bid to distance itself from being a services business and eventually morph into a fully fledged pharma company has been felt on the company's balance sheet during the third quarter... Read


Practice run for pharma RFID
IBM has teamed up with RFID specialist Tagsys to offer pharmaceutical manufacturers a chance to have a practice run implementing their RFID track and trace technology ahead of new legal requirements coming into... Read


China gets serious on drug GMP; safety pact with FDA imminent
As of next year Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers will face a tougher time gaining good manufacturing practice (GMP) certification after the country's regulator signalled new and stricter standards were on the... Read

Weekly Comment

Pharma must 'reinvent' itself to survive

With IMS Health's annual forecast for the pharma industry predicting slower approvals, more black box warnings and the continuation of the 'wave of genericization,' the shift by pharma firms to refocus and reinvent themselves will need to move on apace in order to secure their position in a changing market. Read



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Applied Biosystems and BioTrove form HT genotyping alliance
Applied Biosystems and BioTrove have signed a licensing and collaboration agreement to commercialise an analysis platform for high-throughput (HT) genotyping applications... Read


Nanogen scraps microarray business in favour of PCR assays
Nanogen has decided to pull the plug on its microarray business after not finding any 'financially meaningful opportunities' for it, reducing staff by 20 per cent in the process... Read


Industry news in brief - week 46
LabTechnologist.com brings you a round up of the latest industry news, with developments at Abcam, Applied Isotope Technologies, Horiba, Invitrogen, Jasco, NIH, Sloning and VWR... Read


Artel finds Death Valley's heat devastates accurate pipetting
Artel's third 'Extreme Pipetting' expedition went to Death Valley, US, to see the size of errors that dry heat would introduce to pipetted volumes and found they could be as high as 35 per cent... Read


BAC looks to enhance laboratory purification with new antibody toolkit
Bio Affinity Company (BAC) has launched a new antibody purification toolbox based on its successful industrial-scale technology to provide researchers with a simpler purification route... Read

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