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GlaxoSmithKline inks $1.5bn deal with Targacept

AZ and BMS job cuts add to big pharma woes

Aperio helps speed up tissue microarray analysis

UK ordered to review animal testing approval system

Drugs moving into the clinic: 22

 
   
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PRA to go private as Q2 profit tumbles

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Patent promise for oral insulin tablet tech

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GlaxoSmithKline inks $1.5bn deal with Targacept
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has forged a $1.5bn (€1.1bn) alliance with US biopharma company Targacept, to develop drugs aimed at central nervous system (CNS) related disorders... Read


AZ and BMS job cuts add to big pharma woes
As pharma firms disclose their financial results for the second quarter of the year, AstraZeneca (AZ) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) have announced more job cuts... Read


Aperio helps speed up tissue microarray analysis
Aperio has released a new software tool that not only speeds up the analysis of tissue microarray (TMA) images but also allows researchers to access images remotely... Read


UK ordered to review animal testing approval system
The UK government has been ordered to review the assessment system it uses to classify and grant permission for animal experiments following a court ruling handed down last week... Read


Drugs moving into the clinic: 22
The latest in a series of periodic roundups of drugs that have moved from preclinical research into clinical testing via the announcement of a Phase I trial or an application for a trial to industry regulators... Read


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PRA to go private as Q2 profit tumbles
PRA said it signed an agreement with equity firm Genstar Capital to be bought back by the firm for around $790m (€580m) while the CRO posted a 90 per cent tumble in profit in Q2 due to heavy restructuring... Read


MorphoSys pleased with financial results
German-based MorphoSys has a positive outlook for its antibody producing industry, despite the research antibody segment posting revenue 10 per cent below expectations in the six-month financial report released... Read


Patent promise for oral insulin tablet tech
A novel drug delivery technology capable of delivering large molecules in oral tablet form is set to gain patent protection in a number of countries through an international patent treaty... Read


CRO market to reach $24bn by 2010
The total contract research organisation (CRO) market is expected to reach $24bn (€18bn) by 2010 as biopharma companies' spending on outsourcing services continues to soar, new research reveals... Read

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SwitchGear screens signalling-pathways
SwitchGear Genomics has launched a new high-throughput (HT) tool that allows researchers to peer into disease-related pathways and study how potential drugs affect disease progression... Read


Early stage biz boosts Covance Q2
Covance has posted strong financial results for the second quarter of the year, mainly driven by its early-stage development business performance... Read


Panacos develops new class of fusion inhibitors
Panacos, a US based pharma firm, has outlined its work to identify three new series of compounds that inhibit HIV fusion at a different site to the only approved fusion inhibitor, Roche's Fuzeon (enfuvirtide)... Read


Cell Therapeutics expands in cancer with SMi buy
Cell Therapeutics has acquired oncology expert Systems Medicine (SMi) in a deal worth up to $35m (€25.5m) that includes worldwide rights to brostallicin that belongs to a new class of cancer drugs... Read


Taking the labour out of genotoxicity screening
Litron Laboratories is close to releasing an animal-free micronucleus assay that promises to allow genotoxic drug candidates to be weeded out earlier in the development process than ever before... Read

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