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02-Jan-2008

New China:US preclinical partnership formed

US-based MPI Research and China's Shanghai Medicilon have formed a joint venture in preclinical services, as they position themselves to cash in on what is a budding market sector in China.

A drug cocktail to bust brain tumours

A team of US researchers have uncovered a cocktail of three drugs that could be effective at treating every patient with a particular type of brain cancer that typically has a dismal prognosis.

IDM Pharma will cut jobs after Sanofi scraps melanoma collaboration

Sanofi-Aventis has decided to pull out of its skin cancer collaboration with IDM Pharma, leaving the Californian biopharma firm considering job cuts as a way to lower costs.

More pharmas implicated in Iraq bribery probe

While GSK, AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly have hit the headlines in the UK Serious Fraud Office's (SFO) investigation into illegal bribes paid to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, many more pharma firms are on the organisation's hit list.

New drug target leaves lung cancer cells alone, lonely and dying

It seems even tumour cells can get lonely; scientists have discovered that by cutting off a key gene, lung cancer tumour cells are left 'homeless' and they can't survive on their own.

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