US-based BioNano Genomics has announced the launch of the IrysChip V2, a new, high-throughput chip for the Irys system that now supports human genome analysis. With a 15-fold increase in throughput, the new chip now makes possible the ...
MAX BioPharma has exclusively licensed the small molecule oxysterols from University of California, Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University in the US. The pharmaceutical company has also received a Small Business Innovation Research ...
Accelrys, a US-based provider of lifecycle management solutions, has completed the roll-out of its next-generation cheminformatics suite, with the launch of Accelrys Insight and Accelrys Insight for Excel. Both the solutions will help in ...
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A multiple-sclerosis drug that was at the center of Sanofi SA's SAN.FR +1.12% $20 billion takeover battle for Genzyme Corp. three years ago was approved for sale in Europe on Tuesday, the drug's first regulatory approval world-wide. The ...
Clinical-stage pharmaceutical company Adynxx has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fast track designation for its AYX1 injection, which is used for prevention of chronic pain. In a five-cohort, dose-escalating study ...
Accenture has launched a new business service, known as Accelerated R&D Services, to accelerate drug development from discovery to approval to market. Focused on delivering streamlined and integrated research and development (R&D) ...
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Karo Bio, a drugmaker for large medical needs, has selected Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry solutions, which will enable the company's chemists to access chemistry information, while help achieve their research and development ...
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Chinese have been using the green and leafy andrographis paniculata to treat inflammation, fever and pain for decades, with its cultivation dating back to at least the 1950s in the southern province of Guangdong. The plant, better known ...
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Pharmaceutical packaging requires high attention to detail due to the critical nature of the materials required to protect the active product throughout its shelf life. Types of packaging material and design can also be influenced by the ...
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Johnson & Johnson's Pharmaceuticals unit Janssen is planning to submit more than 10 new products for regulatory approval and extend the brand pipeline of 25 existing drugs by 2017. The late stage products to be submitted for approval ...
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Roche Group recently declared cooperation with Ascletis in joint developing Danoprevir that is used for curing Hepatitis C, marking beginning of cooperative research and development, production and sale of new drugs in China with local ...
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced a funding injection of up to £5m from the Wellcome Trust to support its open approach to discover and develop the treatments for certain diseases. The funding will move the early-stage research to ...
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Researchers have found a type of Chinese tea to be effective in lowering cholesterol levels in lab mice, reports the China Post. A conductor of the study, Dr. Sun Lu-hsi of National Taiwan University (NTU) says she and a team of ...
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Belgium-based biopharmaceutical company UCB has signed a research deal with ConfometRx for the discovery of new drugs. Under the deal, UCB and ConfometRx will leverage structural biology to gain insight into G-protein coupled receptor ...
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Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3-D ...
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