14.04.2010
- Solving Challenges - Due to smaller production volumes, lines used to produce drugs for clinical trial operations have always had distinct needs in terms of processing equipment...
14.04.2010
- Status Update - Drug companies must prioritize education over marketing says Ruchi Mallya, pharmaceutical technology analyst at independent business analyst Ovum. Every industry is...
31.03.2010
- French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis on Wednesday said it would invest €150 million over four years to build up its biotechnology manufacturing capacities in France. The project aims at...
22.03.2010
- U.S. researchers have developed tiny nanoparticle robots that can travel through a patient's blood and into tumors where they deliver a therapy that turns off an important cancer...
19.03.2010
- Pfizer may still be eager to buy generic drugmakers, after being outbid for Germany's Ratiopharm in an effort to shore up revenue as it braces for evaporating sales of its...
10.03.2010
- Facet Biotech has agreed to be acquired by Abbott Laboratories for $27 a share, topping a hostile offer of $17.50 a share made last year by Biogen Idec. Shares of Facet rose 67%...
08.03.2010
- Wacker Chemie has opened a new production facility for pharmaceutical proteins - also known as biologics - in Jena, Germany. The new plant is part of the Munich-based chemical...
05.03.2010
- Global pharmaceutical and chemical company Merck KGaA headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, will acquire Millipore Corporation, a leading Life Science company based in Billerica, U...
02.03.2010
- The European Commission has approved Amflora, BASF's genetically optimized starch potato, for commercial application in Europe. The potato can now be used for the production of...
02.03.2010
- Germany's family-controlled Merck KGaA agreed to buy U.S. biotech tool maker Millipore for $6 billion to diversify away from its embattled drugs business. While analysts said the...
