Bionity.COM Newsletter No. 41/2010, 10/20/2010

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Protagen AG: Your reliable partner for biotherapeutical development
Characterization of biotherapeutics - monoclonal antibodies and biosimilars - with protein microarrays
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Concentrate Samples Without Losing Your Volatiles
Genevac's proprietary SampleGenie^TM flask technology has been developed to help environmental scientists eliminate handling of samples by concentrating samples, without loss of volatile components, directly into a small GC or HPLC vial. SampleGenie technology enables samples in Genevac Rocket^TM, EZ-2 or HT-series centrifugal evaporators to be concentrated...

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SunCollect - A most versatile MALDI spotter and tissue preparation device
When Micro HPLC or Nano HPLC is employed to separate samples, the components of the sample are isolated as fractions in the same way as when analytical scale HPLC is used. In many laboratories, the fractions are deposited into microtiter plate wells (MTP) or are spotted onto MALDI-MS targets for further investigation...

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Purospher^® STAR RP-18 endcapped UHPLC columns from Merckfor ultra fast HPLC use
Speed up separations and save solvents
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Liquid Handling Set For Efficient Cell Culturing
INTEGRA Biosciences has introduced a new Liquid Handling Set that significantly aids scientists in keeping their cell culture work streamlined and organised when pipetting and aspirating liquids. Successful manipulation of cell cultures relies on the ability to maintain sterility and to avoid cross contamination between cell lines...

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Predestined for demanding temperature control applications requiring the highest safety standards
The new dimension - Unistat Tango Nuevo
The Hydraulically sealed HTF system is a Huber established and refined feature. No valves, reservoirs, tanks or baths. Thermal expansion of the HTF in the external circuit happens in the in-built expansion vessel. Thermally insulated but mechanically connected, the fluid level rises and falls but remains around room temperature during normal operation...

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Eco Friendly Packaged Pipette Tips
INTEGRA Viaflo has introduced GREEN PACK^TM - an environmentally friendly version of its GripTips^TM pipette tips for use with its range of electronic pipettes. Using 100% recyclable materials imprinted with soy based inks the new GREEN PACK^TM packaging houses five inserts of non-sterile GripTips^TM, but without the tip boxes...

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World's smallest FT-IR spectrometer
The new ALPHA by Bruker Optik
Efficient FT-IR Analytics! With Bruker Optics' ALPHA. The implementation of the most modern technologies and the innovative user concept substantially reduce the operating costs of the ALPHA...

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Extension of TSK-GEL ODS-100 reversed phase column line
Tosoh Bioscience is extending the portfolio of TSK-GEL ODS-100 reversed phase columns by a new 3µm TSKgel ODS-100Z stationary phase and additional column dimensions for all TSK-GEL ODS-100 phases. TSKgel ODS-100V and TSKgel ODS-100Z columns...

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ESE-Log a high performance fluorescence detector - highly sensitive, compact and versatile
The ESE-Log is ESE´s unique fluorescence detector designed for ease at use in a wide range of laboratory applications. The compact ESE-Log module measures up to two different fluorescent wavelengths and contains precise micro optics, powerful excitation light sources, highly sensitive sensors and microprocessor controlled electronics...

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Universal GC Detector: Detection down to low ppb!
The VICI Pulsed Discharge Detector (PDD) is a universal, non-destructive, high sensitivity helium photoionization detector (HID/PID). The response to both inorganic and organic compounds is linear over a wide range. Response to fixed gases is positive (increase in standing current), with a minimum detectable quantity (MDQ) in the low ppb range...

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RAMalyze - Reliable RAMAN Spectrum Interpretation in Practice
Interpret your RAMAN spectra and get professional results with just a few clicks. Retrieve reliable functional group assignments and browse more than 400 tabulated functional groups in the built-in electronic catalog....

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Focusing on heating and cooling: ThermoStat plus
Convenient and accurate temperature control for all commonly used lab tubes is the concept behind our ThermoStat plus. The result is a compact benchtop thermostat with Peltier technology...

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Mikrochip Elektrophoresis System for DNA/RNA Analysis
This next-generation microchip electrophoresis system will bring about revolutionary changes in life science laboratories.
The full automated electrophoresis system MultiNA from Shimadzu quickly and easily performs DNA and RNA nucleic acid size confirmation and quantitation. This System uses microchip technology to conduct fully automated high-speed electrophoresis separation and fluorescence detection to perform high-sensitivity analysis...

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Viscotek TDAmax the High-End GPC/SEC-System
Determine molecular mass, structure and composition of a sample just in one measurement
The TDA^TM employs a concentration detector, viscometer and light scattering detector acting in concert, with each detector providing complimentary but different information...

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Biotech News

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Latest News from Biotechnology and Pharma from 10/13/2010 to 10/19/2010

Yale University researchers find key genetic trigger of depression
10/19/2010 - Yale University researchers have found a gene that seems to be a key contributor to the onset of depression and is a promising target for a new class of antidepressants, they report Oct. 17 in the jou...
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Celgene Completes Acquisition of Abraxis
10/19/2010 - Celgene Corporation announced it has completed its acquisition of Abraxis BioScience, Inc. For each share of Abraxis common stock, Abraxis shareholders will receive $58.00 in cash, 0.2617 shares of Ce...
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Biotie regains rights to develop PDE10 inhibitors for CNS disorders
10/19/2010 - Biotie announced that it will regain rights to compounds relating to PDE10 inhibition for the treatment of CNS disorders, including schizophrenia. The compounds were the subject of a four-year collabo...
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Galapagos' affiliate BioFocus extends collaboration with Chiesi
10/19/2010 - Galapagos NV announced that its BioFocus service division has expanded a collaboration with Chiesi Farmaceutici, a privately held Italian pharmaceutical company. Total value for the collaboration wit...
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Key to blood-brain barrier opens way for treating Alzheimer’s and stroke
10/19/2010 - While the blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain from harmful chemicals occurring naturally in the blood, it also obstructs the transport of drugs to the brain. In an article in Nature scientist...
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Researchers show how cells open 'doors' to release neurotransmitters
10/18/2010 - Like opening a door to exit a room, cells in the body open up their outer membranes to release such chemicals as neurotransmitters and other hormones.
Cornell researchers have shed new light on thi...
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Knopp Neurosciences Forms New Parent Company to Expand Operations and Mission
10/18/2010 - Knopp Neurosciences Inc. announced that it has formed a new parent entity called Knopp Biosciences LLC to expand operations with the goal of becoming a more broadly integrated biopharmaceutical compan...
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Bavarian Nordic Receives NIH Grant to Investigate the Potential of an MVA-BN based Vaccine against Ebola and Marburg Viruses
10/18/2010 - Bavarian Nordic A/S announced that the company has received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance its early research in filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg virus).
As prev...
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Protagen AG and MicroDiscovery GmbH cooperate in biomarker development
10/18/2010 - Dortmund based Protagen AG and MicroDiscovery GmbH, a bioinformatics company based in Berlin, have started a cooperation to identify and validate biomarkers for medically relevant diseases.
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Roger Corbett AO to be appointed to the Board of HalcyGen
10/18/2010 - HalcyGen Pharmaceuticals Limited announced that Mr Roger Corbett AO is seeking shareholder approval to be elected as a Non Executive Director of the Company at the Annual General Meeting on 17th Novem...
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On the trail of the epigenetic code
Test system on Drosophila should provide the key to histone function
10/15/2010 - The genetic inherited material DNA was long viewed as the sole bearer of hereditary information. The function of its packaging proteins, the histones, was believed to be exclusively structural. Additi...
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Enzymicals AG Acquires Proprietary Rights on Pig Liver Esterases (PLE) from Evonik AG
10/15/2010 - The Enzymicals AG gained proprietary rights for the well-known recombinant pig liver esterases (PLE) from Evonik AG in Hanau. The intellectual property (IP) covers a range of PLE isoenzymes for hydrol...
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IMS HEALTH Forecasts Global Pharmaceutical Market Growth of 5-7 Percent in 2011, Reaching $880 Billion
Patent expiries and new wave of drug budget controls subdue growth among brands in developed markets
10/15/2010 - The value of the global pharmaceutical market is expected to grow 5-7 percent in 2011, to US$880 billion, compared with a 4-5 percent pace this year, according to IMS Health. The forecast, included in...
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Prosensa receives £7.5m milestone payment as part of its program with GlaxoSmithKline in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
10/15/2010 - Prosensa has announced that it received a £7.5m milestone payment from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as a result of achieving a data milestone in its Phase IIa open label extension trial of GSK2402968 (PRO051...
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Genmab Announces Antibody Development Collaboration with Lundbeck
10/15/2010 - Genmab A/S announced an agreement to create and develop human antibody therapeutics for disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) with H. Lundbeck A/S. Genmab will create novel human antibodies t...
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One lock, many keys
10/14/2010 - In order to track down pathogens and render them harmless, the immune system must be able to recognize myriad different foreign substances and react to them. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of ...
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Lundbeck and Merck sign exclusive commercialisation agreement for SYCREST (asenapine) sublingual tablets
Lundbeck expects to launch SYCREST in the EU at the beginning of 2011
10/14/2010 - H. Lundbeck A/S and Merck & Co., also known outside the United States and Canada as MSD, announced a commercialisation agreement for SYCREST® (asenapine) sublingual tablets (5 mg, 10 mg). Under the te...
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EU regulators okay Qlaira for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding
10/14/2010 - Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, has successfully concluded the European registration procedure for the introduction of Qlaira in the new indication treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding in women wi...
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DSM and BRAIN cooperate in the biotechnological production of water-soluble vitamins
10/14/2010 - DSM Nutritional Products GmbH, a subsidiary of the Dutch company Royal DSM N.V., and BRAIN AG announced a strategic cooperation in the biotechnological production of water-soluble vitamins.
An o...
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Biomechanical cell properties highly relevant for cancer research
10/14/2010 - Biomechanical changes of cells are a prerequisite for tumor growth and invasion of cancer cells. These new research finding in the field of biophysics of cancer cells were published recently by the gr...
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Galapagos and the National Cancer Institute sign compound management agreement
10/13/2010 - Galapagos NV announced that the Compound Focus subsidiary of its BioFocus service division has signed an agreement with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Hea...
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MorphoSys and Proteros Biostructures Receive Research Grant
Analysis of Antibody-Antigen-Complex Structures to Allow More Efficient Engineering of Therapeutic Antibodies
10/13/2010 - MorphoSys AG and Proteros Biostructures announced that they have been awarded a grant by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF. The funding of approximately EUR 850,000 supports ...
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KINAXO Enters Agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
10/13/2010 - KINAXO Biotechnologies GmbH announced that Bristol-Myers Squibb Company has chosen KINAXO to support several of its drug discovery programs. Under the terms of the agreement, KINAXO will apply its che...
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PepTcell appoints Manfred Scheske as CEO of Consumer Health
10/13/2010 - PepTcell, a drug discovery group with an innovative mid- to late stage portfolio, announced the appointment of Manfred Scheske as Chief Executive Officer of Consumer Health.
Scheske, former Presid...
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Novo Nordisk completes divestment of ZymoGenetics, Inc.
10/13/2010 - Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and ZymoGenetics, Inc. have signed a definitive agreement providing for the acquisition of ZymoGenetics by Bristol-Myers Squibb for USD 9.75 per share in cash. Novo Nordis...
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KAUTEX container program - plastic bottles and containers from 10 ml to 60 l
Successful products for laboratories and the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries available from stock
For over 50 years Kautex Textron has specialized in the production of extrusion blowmolded plastic containers. Embedded in a global company we are able to use the technical possibilities and synergies of our organization. Due to our high level of quality and wide range of products we are one of the world markets' main suppliers...

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