News tagged with pharmaceutical biotechnology

Sanofi-Aventis says gets US approval for Genzyme bid

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis said on Wednesday that US competition authorities had not raised any objections to its hostile bid for US biotechnology group and rare disease specialist Genzyme.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Delivering drugs on time and on target

(PhysOrg.com) -- Northeastern professor leading research on nanocarriers that would make a whole new class of drugs available to treat cancer and other diseases

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Needle-free, inhalant powder measles vaccine could save thousands of lives

The first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles is moving toward clinical trials next year in India, where the disease still sickens millions of infants and children and kills almost 200,000 annually, according ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New or not? Cracking cyclic natural products for new drugs

Researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new—or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0