Breaking News on Drug Discovery

FEI launches extreme high-resolution SEM

10-Jul-2008 - Electron microscopy expert FEI has launched a new range of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) that...

High throughput microscopy reveals breast cancer pathway

06-Jun-2008 - Personalised medicine took a giant leap forward this week as the regulation of an oestrogen...

Olympus introduces see-through silicon microscope

30-May-2008 - Microscopy giants Olympus have added a confocal laser scanning microscope to its ever expanding range...

Gold and silver add 'bling' to chromatin images

22-Apr-2008 - An intriguing new method which allows for more detailed electron microscopy images is set to...

Scientists shoot molecular motion on film

22-Apr-2008 - You'll be unlikely to see them at your local cinema, but molecular animations created using...

VisEn updates small animal imaging platform

17-Apr-2008 - VisEn Medical has launched a new version of its fluorescence molecular tomography platform for small...

Olympus centre strengthens R&D in lab equipment

08-Apr-2008 - Olympus is planning to expand its European operations with a €15m R&D centre in Munich,...

Technique takes chemical analysis to femtogram scale

02-Apr-2008 - A new laboratory technique can describe both the structure and chemical composition of samples with...

EU's ageing science workforce could damage future innovations

27-Mar-2008 - The ageing population of the European Union (EU) could result in a stagnation in technological...

Record R&D investment in US

27-Mar-2008 - Research and development investment by America's pharmaceutical and biotechnology research companies reached a record $58.8bn...

UK pharma industry set to lose business offshore

26-Mar-2008 - The pharmaceutical industry has lost confidence in the UK as a place to do business...

Product News in Brief

25-Mar-2008 - Varian, Invitrogen, BMG Labtech and Hosokawa Micron have all recently announced new product launches, detailing...

ISPE links with university for hands-on biopharma training

25-Mar-2008 - The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) is offering a "unique training experience" for pharmaceutical...

Laboratory product news in brief

18-Mar-2008 - LabTechnologist.com presents a round-up of new products that have been introduced to the laboratory equipment...

Device gives scientists the power to control cell reproduction

12-Mar-2008 - A unique device that allows control gene activity during cell multiplication has been produced by...

New products for the laboratory scientist

06-Mar-2008 - LabTechnologist.com brings you a round up of the latest product news and releases. This week...

DiaMed helps Bio-Rad to strong growth in 07

04-Mar-2008 - Bio-Rad Laboratories has reported strong growth in the last quarter of 2007, with a 34...

Lab-on-a-chip looks inside the brain

19-Feb-2008 - A lab on a chip method has been developed to mimic brain chemistry and...

Charles River accelerates China plans; reports profit jump

19-Feb-2008 - Charles River Laboratories has reported another profit jump in its Q4 2007 financial results and...

Agilent reports disappointing 1Q profit

18-Feb-2008 - Agilent Technologies report a 20 per cent drop in its first quarter profit as a...

Qiagen lifted by acquisitions in '07

18-Feb-2008 - Qiagen announced strong Q4 results and good overall growth for 2007, despite going through significant...

Sigma-Aldrich smashes $2bn mark in 2007 sales

14-Feb-2008 - Sigma-Aldrich has reported record annual revenues of $2.04bn in 2007, fuelled by strong growth in...

Weekly Comment

EC 'unlikely to support ban on primate testing'

13-Feb-2008 - The European Commission is unlikely to support an outright ban on the use of non-human...

Single molecule sensor could advance on lab-on-a-chip tech

13-Feb-2008 - For the first time, US scientists have found a way of simultaneously performing optical and...