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Manufacturing is the production of products across all industries, on a large-scale, using machinery.

Using machine learning to make proactive industrial maintenance more effective

Over the past five years, the industrial sector has begun to see the value in digitalization and has invested more in adopting it. With this has come a cultural shift from reactive equipment maintenance to proactive maintenance that pre-empts problems.

From Novotek AB 22 Jun 2018

Minakem's new high-class production facility extends capacity to develop and manufacture HPAPI compounds

Minakem, the CDMO division of Minafin, specialized in custom development and manufacturing of building blocks, GMP intermediates and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, today announces it is in the final qualification run to open a new closed-controlled environment high containment production facility in August.

22 Jun 2018

Investigating the Unique Nanomechanical Properties of Tooth Enamel

My background is in tribology, which is the science of the interactions between surfaces in relative motion. This involves looking at behaviour, such as friction, wear and lubrication, and the relationships between them.

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 22 Jun 2018

CellGenix completes first phase of facility expansion to meet rising demands for GMP cell culture reagents

CellGenix, a global manufacturing leader of GMP-grade raw materials for cell therapy, gene therapy and tissue-engineered products, successfully completed the first phase of its headquarters’ expansion as more customers approach late-stage clinical development and commercialization.

22 Jun 2018

FDA expands approval of novel diabetes management device to include younger pediatric patients

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approval of the MiniMed 670G hybrid closed looped system, a diabetes management device that is intended to automatically monitor glucose (sugar) and provide appropriate basal insulin doses with little or no input from the user, to include individuals aged 7 to 13 with type 1 diabetes.

21 Jun 2018

New collaboration integrates Intabio's Blaze solution with Bruker's mass spectrometers

Intabio, Inc., announced today that it has entered into a collaboration with Bruker to accelerate integration of Intabio's Blaze™ solution with Bruker's high resolution mass spectrometers.

From Bruker Daltonics 14 Jun 2018

How America got hooked on a deadly drug

Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its new painkiller OxyContin.

13 Jun 2018

Vetter's new campaign aims to examine applicability of digital trends to injection systems

How can digital trends be used purposefully in regards to the application of injection systems? That is the key question being addressed by Vetter’s Open Innovation Challenge.

13 Jun 2018

InDevR releases first reagent kit for assessing neuraminidase in influenza vaccines

InDevR Inc. announced product release of the first ever commercial reagent kit designed explicitly for assessment of neuraminidase in influenza vaccines.

12 Jun 2018

Cureworks collaborative aims to accelerate development of immunotherapies for pediatric cancer

Seattle Children's, with participating members Children's National Health System, BC Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has launched CureWorks, an international collaborative of leading academic children's hospitals determined to accelerate the development of immunotherapy treatments for childhood cancer.

12 Jun 2018

Tradeshow Talks with Porvair Sciences

We will be featuring our latest automation-ready nitrogen blowdown evaporator, the Ultravap Mistral and our new electronic cap mat applicators at ACHEMA 2018.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 11 Jun 2018

Translate Bio collaborates with Sanofi to develop mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases

Translate Bio, a clinical-stage messenger RNA therapeutics company developing a new class of potentially transformative medicines to treat diseases caused by protein or gene dysfunction, announced today a multi-year research and development collaboration and exclusive licensing agreement with Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, to develop mRNA vaccines for up to five undisclosed infectious disease pathogens.

11 Jun 2018

EMA grants PRIME designation to Themis' chikungunya vaccine candidate

Themis announced today that the European Medicines Agency has granted PRIority MEdicines designation to its most advanced program in development, a vaccine to prevent chikungunya fever.

11 Jun 2018

European Union's criteria for regulating EDCs do not go far enough to protect public health

The Endocrine Society expressed continued concerns today that the European Union's (EU's) criteria for regulating endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in pesticides and biocides do not go far enough to protect public health.

8 Jun 2018

FDA files complaint against company marketing unapproved hand sanitizers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today filed a complaint against Innovative BioDefense, Inc. of Lake Forest, California, and Colette Cozean, the company's president and chief executive officer, to prohibit them from selling Zylast topical antiseptics with claims that they are effective against infection by pathogens such as norovirus, rotavirus, flu virus, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, and Ebola.

7 Jun 2018

Lonza and Innosieve Diagnostics enter into distribution agreement for innovative bioburden testing method

Lonza Pharma & Biotech and Innosieve Diagnostics announced today an exclusive distribution agreement for rapid bioburden testing technology. This agreement expands Lonza’s extensive offering of endotoxin products, services and software and provides pharmaceutical testing professionals with a comprehensive set of quality control tools.

From Lonza 5 Jun 2018

Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. Receives 2017 Aspen Award

Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. Receives 2017 Aspen Award for the Advancement of Upstream Bioprocessing.

5 Jun 2018

Mesoblast and Cartherics form partnership to develop 'off-the-shelf' CAR-T therapies for solid cancers

Mesoblast Limited today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Cartherics Pty Ltd to develop allogeneic ‘off-the-shelf’ CAR-T cells armed with multiple targeting receptors for use in solid cancers. Off the shelf CAR-T therapies have the potential to reduce costs dramatically and open up this very effective treatment to millions of cancer patients across the world.

31 May 2018

Princeton Instruments and C-SOPS announce collaboration on innovative pharmaceutical technology

Princeton Instruments and the Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems are pleased to announce a six-month collaboration on a novel pharmaceutical technology that enables close monitoring and control of drug manufacturing processes.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 26 May 2018

Researchers build 3-D printer that offers sweet solution to making detailed structures

University of Illinois engineers built a 3-D printer that offers a sweet solution to making detailed structures that commercial 3-D printers can't: Rather than a layer-upon-layer solid shell, it produces a delicate network of thin ribbons of hardened isomalt, the type of sugar alcohol used to make throat lozenges.

25 May 2018

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Using machine learning to make proactive industrial maintenance more effective

Minakem's new high-class production facility extends capacity to develop and manufacture HPAPI compounds

Investigating the Unique Nanomechanical Properties of Tooth Enamel

CellGenix completes first phase of facility expansion to meet rising demands for GMP cell culture reagents

FDA expands approval of novel diabetes management device to include younger pediatric patients

New collaboration integrates Intabio's Blaze solution with Bruker's mass spectrometers

How America got hooked on a deadly drug

Vetter's new campaign aims to examine applicability of digital trends to injection systems

InDevR releases first reagent kit for assessing neuraminidase in influenza vaccines

Cureworks collaborative aims to accelerate development of immunotherapies for pediatric cancer

Tradeshow Talks with Porvair Sciences

Translate Bio collaborates with Sanofi to develop mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases

EMA grants PRIME designation to Themis' chikungunya vaccine candidate

European Union's criteria for regulating EDCs do not go far enough to protect public health

FDA files complaint against company marketing unapproved hand sanitizers

Lonza and Innosieve Diagnostics enter into distribution agreement for innovative bioburden testing method

Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. Receives 2017 Aspen Award

Mesoblast and Cartherics form partnership to develop 'off-the-shelf' CAR-T therapies for solid cancers

Princeton Instruments and C-SOPS announce collaboration on innovative pharmaceutical technology

Researchers build 3-D printer that offers sweet solution to making detailed structures

Industry Focus eBook - Neurology/Neuroscience - 2nd edition eBook

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Editorial Focus eBook - Proteomics (2nd Edition)

Industry Focus eBook - Life Science Microscopy (2nd Edition)

BFEB: Advances in microplate-based assays and analysis

Biologics stability screening toolkit: Three practical workflows for accelerating formulation development

The Critical Role of Sample Storage in Drug Discovery and Development

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy