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PCI agrees to acquire Penn Pharma

Packaging Coordinators, Inc. is pleased to announce it has finalized its agreement to acquire Penn Pharmaceutical Services Limited (Penn Pharma).

4 Aug 2014

Tecomet signs agreement to acquire Symmetry Medical's OEM Solutions business for $450 million

Tecomet Inc., a Genstar Capital portfolio company and precision contract manufacturer supporting the medical device and aerospace industries, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Symmetry Medical Inc. to acquire its OEM Solutions business segment for $450 million.

4 Aug 2014

Botanical Dietary Supplement Screening using NMR and MS

An interview with Kim Colson from Bruker Biospin, discussing the applications of NMR and mass spectrometry in the field of botanical science.

From Bruker BioSpin Group 1 Aug 2014

Endo International revenues increase $719M to 1% in Q2 2014

Endo International plc today reported second quarter 2014 revenues of $719 million, an increase of 1 percent compared to second quarter 2013 revenues of $712 million.

31 Jul 2014

Scientists tap old secrets to develop environmentally friendly way to make colored plastics

Long before humans figured out how to create colors, nature had already perfected the process - think stunning, bright butterfly wings of many different hues, for example. Now scientists are tapping into those secrets to develop a more environmentally friendly way to make colored plastics. Their paper on using structure - or the shapes and architectures of materials - rather than dyes, to produce color appears in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

31 Jul 2014

Nelipak completes acquisition of Flexpak

Nelipak Corporation announced today that it has closed on the acquisition of Debond Corporation.

30 Jul 2014

CanTx, Novogen name two key CMOs to manufacture clinical batches of anti-cancer drug Cantrixil

Oncology drug developer, CanTx Inc., and its parent company, Novogen Ltd., today announced that they have named two key contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) to produce clinical batches of the experimental anti-cancer drug, Cantrixil.

26 Jul 2014

Acsis addresses current and future needs for global supply network

Acsis Inc., the market leader for supply chain visibility, brand protection and serialization solutions, has recently posted an article, "Future of Running Your Business" that addresses current and future needs for companies' extended supply chain, and explains how solutions for the old supply chain model no longer work today.

26 Jul 2014

Obese people have low endurance, experience excess fatigue in workplace

Workplaces may need to consider innovative meethods to prevent fatigue from developing in employees who are obese. Based on results from a new study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, workers who are obese may have significantly shorter endurance times when perfroming workplace tasks, compared with non-obese counterparts.

24 Jul 2014

Researchers uncover how malaria parasite becomes resistant to fosmidomycin drug

Researchers have uncovered a way the malaria parasite becomes resistant to an investigational drug. The discovery, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also is relevant for other infectious diseases including bacterial infections and tuberculosis.

24 Jul 2014

Student develops three-stage filter system to clean drinking water

Roughly 780 million people around the world have no access to clean drinking water. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 3.4 million people die from water-related diseases every year. ETH student Jeremy Nussbaumer set himself the goal of making a contribution to solving this problem.

24 Jul 2014

Novasep becomes authorized producer of new molecular entity for US market

Novasep, a leading supplier of services and technologies to the life science industries, today announces that it has successfully completed FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) pre-approval inspections carried out at two of its sites in France.

23 Jul 2014

Glide Pharma announces successful completion of pre-clinical proof-of-concept study with novel solid formulation of octreotide acetate

Glide Pharma, the pharmaceutical development and device company focused on solid dose formulations of therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that its novel solid formulation of octreotide acetate achieved successful results in a pre-clinical proof-of-concept study comparing it with the currently marketed liquid product (Sandostatin®).

22 Jul 2014

NuAire's Laminar Airflow Workstations create bacteria-free, clean air environment

NuAire's AireGard ES NU-201 Table Top and NU-301 Console Horizontal Laminar Airflow Hoods provide a HEPA filtered clean work area that is ideal for operations requiring a particle-free, bacteria-free, clean air environment.

22 Jul 2014

New chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing kit developed by Porvair Sciences

Porvair Sciences has developed a new ChIP sequencing assay kit extending the benefits of their proprietary Chromatrap® solid state ChIP technology to preparation of purified Chromatin for the generation of sequencing libraries.

From Chromatrap® - Porvair Sciences Ltd 22 Jul 2014

PharmaBoardroom's "Healthcare and Life Sciences Review Poland 2014" report

PharmaBoardroom's "Healthcare and Life Sciences Review Poland 2014", is now available for free download. The report explores one of Europe's largest pharma markets, and looks at the delicate balance between a strong and growing economy, and healthcare legislation that many complain is negatively affecting the pharmaceutical market.

17 Jul 2014