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	Technical / White Paper Benefits of integrating human tissue research in drug discovery The benefits of integrating human tissue research into drug discovery and development programs are in the confidence that they provide in the selection of the NCEs most likely to succeed in the clinic, and doing this in the most financially efficient way... Click Here Access Full Stories Big pharma reaches to Summit for zebrafish safety screening Summit (formerly Vastox) has signed a $450,000 (€312,000) deal with one of the world's top 5 pharma firms to enable it to use Summit's zebrafish-platform in its drug safety programme... Read Another safety scare for Roche In another safety concern over a long-approved drug, Roche has been forced to add new warnings to its anti-transplant rejection drug CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil (MMF)) amid the news that it is associated with... Read Takeda sleeping drug takes 'Worst Product Award' Japanese pharma firm Takeda beat off strong competition from the likes of Coca-Cola to take home the dubious honour of Consumer International's 'Worst Product' award thanks to its sleeping pill ad... Read Thermo continues fishing in India Thermo Fisher Scientific continues to fish for new opportunities in India and has begun setting up a new clinical services base in the country... Read Peptide chatter encourages bacteria to commit suicide Scientists have discovered a peptide that enables bacteria to chat to one another, and can induce them to commit suicide, opening the door to new antibiotics... Read
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	Related Industry News Bayer banishes high dose MS drug Bayer Schering Pharma this week announced that it has scrapped plans to introduce a double-dose version of its top-selling multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Betaferon (interferon beta-1b) by the end of the year following... Read Explosions at two pharma plants Two pharmaceutical companies have faced explosions at their plants in the last week, local media reported... Read Applied Biosystems and Celera return first quarter profits Applied Biosystems (ABI) saw 5 per cent revenue growth during its first quarter of fiscal 2008 as sister company Celera posted revenue growth of 57 per cent... Read Survey asks: what to do about counterfeit drugs? Action should be taken to curb the counterfeit drug trade, but not via legal intervention, the results of a European survey say... Read Weekly Comment Pfizer partners in shock after surprise Exubera exit We've all cringed at stories of people dumping their partners via text message but in the world of business, Pfizer seems to have taken things to a new level when its Exubera partners were allegedly left to find out the product was being scrapped through a press release. Read Previous Headlines Gene therapy offers protection from terrorist attack A gene therapy has shown it could protect vital organs from the damaging effects of ionising radiation during a terrorist attack... Read 'Legendary' DNA Nobel Prize winner dies Dr Arthur Kornberg, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for his work on how DNA is built, has died from respiratory failure at the age of 89... Read Big pharma lends a helping hand Despite often attracting a barrage of negative publicity, particularly in regard to a perception of putting profits before people, big pharma firms are still capable of showing their human side in times of crisis... Read Sulphur analysis speeds up protein quantification Chinese researchers have developed a way to quickly quantify protein abundance using a mass spectrometry technique (MS) commonly used for elemental analysis... Read GSK to strip down through outsourcing and offshoring GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is planning to strip itself down closer to the bare bones of the business through further outsourcing and offshoring, with hopes of making itself into a lean, mean, pharma machine... Read Technical / White Papers, Case studies, Web casts Benefits of integrating human tissue research in drug discovery - Technical / White Paper Manufacturing Variations in Polysorbate Batches - Technical / White Paper Product Information - brochures, Web centers DAICEL chiral chromatography products - Company Profile Rapid HPLC method development with ChromSword®Auto software - Product Presentation Separation of polar compounds - Application Notes Product Innovation Alerts - Free of Charge Indicate your research interests and receive alerts on relevant products and market innovations Analysis and instrumentation Assays and screening Cell culture & Equipment Chromatography Compounds and consumables Contract services (outsourcing) Drug discovery Genomics / Proteomics Informatics & IT Lab equipment & consumables Liquid handling and automation Liquid handling and sample preparation Production technologies Separation and purification

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