CLINICAL Data has announced it will present at the 2009 Future Leaders in the Biotech Industry Conference held on 2 April 2009.
27/03/2009
SARTORIUS Stedim Biotech and SAFC Biosciences have announced the signing of a global partnership agreement which combines Sartorius Stedim Biotech's (SSB) filtration and liquid handling systems with SAFC Biosciences' development and manufacturing of cell culture media and downstream purification products.
24/07/2009
AS PART of the Business Club Australia’s (BCA) Bledisloe Cup events program, seven Biotech international representatives have arrived in Sydney to speak at a Life Science seminar today, Friday 21 August 2009.
21/08/2009
MERCK has announced the formation of Merck Serono Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund to incest in emerging biotechnology companies.
26/03/2009
PERKINELMER has announced the inauguration of a Centre of Excellence (COE) in Singapore.
05/03/2009
RESEARCHERS from the Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF) and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) are set to being sequencing the genome of an antipodean coral, marking the first time an aquatic animal will be fully sequenced in this country.
07/08/2009
Merck and Millipore have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck will acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of Millipore for US$107 per share in cash, or a total transaction value, including net debt, of approximately US$7.2 billion.
12/03/2010
PRODUCT labels on the class of drugs known as anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies, specifically cetuximab (Erbitux) and panitumumab (Vectibix) have just been changed to no longer be recommended for the treatment colorectal cancers in patients with mutation KRAS.
04/08/2009
The Australian scientist Dr Barry Marshall, who discovered the bacterium Helicobacter pylori was responsible for causing stomach ulcers, is now working towards a vaccine against H. pylori that can be eaten rather than injected.
15/12/2009
The US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has purchased a Fluidigm microfluidic-based EP1 System. They will use the system to help develop and validate focused 96- and 384-SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) panels for testing the health and quality of America's dairy and beef cattle.
11/02/2010
BIOSIGNAL has signed an agreement to sell the Biosignal biofilm intellectual property to Commonwealth Biotechnologies.
14/07/2009
Australian biotechnology start-ups are more successful at developing their product pipelines when they ignore the accountant and rely on market judgement, claims a UQ research team.
12/03/2010