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Aesica Enters Research Collaboration with University of Nottingham

14.05.2013 - Aesica, the global contract manufacturing organisation (CMO), announces a partnership with the University of Nottingham for the commercial development of alternative methods in...

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Big Drugmakers Think Small with Nanomedicine Deals

03.05.2013 - Is nanomedicine the next big thing? A growing number of top drug companies seem to think so. The ability to encapsulate potent drugs in tiny particles measuring billionths of a...

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Sanofi to Step Up Development of New Diabetes Device

02.05.2013 - Sanofi is stepping up the development of a fixed combination of diabetes treatments Lantus and Lyxumia to sidestep an earlier setback with a similar pen device and take advantage...

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Court Stops EU Regulator Releasing Drug Company Data

30.04.2013 - Europe's medicines regulator has been stopped from releasing clinical trial data about drugs made by AbbVie and Intermune, following a court ruling favouring the two U.S. companies...

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New Gene Therapy Trials Aim to Mend Broken Hearts

30.04.2013 - British scientists are stepping up clinical tests of gene therapy in a bid to help people with advanced heart failure pump blood more efficiently. Researchers said on Tuesday they...

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Merck, Pfizer to Jointly Develop Diabetes Drug

29.04.2013 - Pfizer and Merck & Co said they will co-develop Pfizer's experimental type 2 diabetes drug ertugliflozin, both as a standalone product and in combination with other drugs...

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South Africa Seeks to Close Drug Patent Loophole

22.04.2013 - South Africa plans to overhaul its intellectual property laws to improve access to cheaper medicines by making it harder for pharmaceutical firms to register and roll-over patents...

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AstraZeneca Bets on Nanotech with Bind Therapeutics Deal

22.04.2013 - AstraZeneca is to pay privately held Bind Therapeutics as much as $200 million to develop a cancer medicine using the U.S. biotech company's nanotechnology drug delivery system...