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BioScreening - organic compounds for screening
News: Discoveries, Innovations and PatentsBioFocus DPI to apply TET Technology in high-throughput screening campaigns - Saffron Walden, UK and Heidelberg, Germany; 24 April 2009 – BioFocus DPI, a leading provider of gene-to-candidate discovery services, and TET Systems Holding, a privately-held, German-based biotech company, announced today that they have entered into an agreement to apply TET System’s inducible gene technology in high-throughput screening campaigns performed for BioFocus DPI customers.
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Ligand and GlaxoSmithKline Collaboration Identifies New Lead Compound - SAN DIEGO, Mar 30, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) —-Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND: 2.98, -0.14, -4.49%) today
announced that it has identified a new lead for advancement in its
alliance with GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK). This newly identified lead
compound is from a program being evaluated as a potential treatment for
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Ligand and GlaxoSmithKline Collaboration Identifies New Lead Compound - SAN DIEGO, Mar 30, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) —-Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND: 2.98, -0.14, -4.49%) today announced that it has identified a new lead for advancement in its alliance with GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK). This newly identified lead compound is from a program being evaluated [...]
New Model For Drug Discovery With Fluorescent Anesthetic Demonstrated - ScienceDaily (Apr. 8, 2009) — A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania and University of Wisconsin chemists and anesthesiologists have identified a fluorescent anesthetic compound that will assist researchers in obtaining more precise information about how anesthetics work in the body and will provide a means to more rapidly test new anesthetic compounds in the search [...]
New Drug Shows Promise In Treating Drug-resistant Prostate Cancer - ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2009) — A new therapy for metastatic prostate cancer has shown considerable promise in early clinical trials involving patients whose disease has become resistant to current drugs.
Chemists and biologists at UCLA and colleagues at several other institutions, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, have created a new drug to treat a particularly lethal [...]
Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and TB Alliance Announce Partnership to Develop New Tuberculosis Drugs from Natural Sources - BEIJING & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Institute of Microbiology (IMCAS), a member institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), a not-for-profit [...]
DiscoveryBioMed, Inc. Engaged in Multiple Drug Discovery Projects on Behalf of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Its Office of Technology and Business Development - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DiscoveryBioMed, Inc. (DBM) and Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) have agreed to move forward on multiple “fee for service” contracts in human cell optimization, assay optimization and pilot drug discovery [...]
Plexxikon Receives Key Patents on Novel Compounds for Multiple Programs - BERKELEY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Plexxikon Inc. today announced the issuance of key composition-of-matter patents covering novel compounds discovered through the company’s Scaffold-Based Drug Discovery™ platform. Plexxikon’s pipeline of preclinical and clinical stage product opportunities currently span [...]
First auto carbohydrate synthesiser - German researchers have unveiled the first fully automated carbohydrate synthesiser, which they hope will advance development of carbohydrate-based vaccines for the developing world.
The new machine was announced at this week’s meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt lake City, Utah, and could significantly reduce the amount of time it takes for researchers to build complex carbohydrates [...]
Plexxikon Receives Key Patents on Novel Compounds for Multiple Programs - BERKELEY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Plexxikon Inc. today announced the issuance of key composition-of-matter patents covering novel compounds discovered through the company’s Scaffold-Based Drug Discovery™ platform. Plexxikon’s pipeline of preclinical and clinical stage product opportunities currently span [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Accelerates Drug Discovery Process with New Maybridge Quick2LeadT Compound Kits - TINTAGEL, England, (17 March 2009) – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has introduced a novel tool to accelerate hit-to-lead programmes in the drug discovery process. Its Maybridge Quick2Lead™ Compound Kits are designed to save time and money by enabling rapid compound library synthesis around bioactive “hits” emerging [...]
Zenobia Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Sale of Commercial Fragment Library Ideal for Crystallographic, NMR and SPR Screening - LA JOLLA, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire/ — Zenobia Therapeutics, Inc. (Zenobia) the leader in fragment-based lead discovery (FBLD) for CNS diseases, announced today that they are adding a 352 compound fragment library to their product offerings. The library is ready for screening by X-ray, NMR, and SPR methods, contains soluble, verified protein binders, is shape [...]
BioFocus DPI Extends Drug Discovery Collaboration with Lilly Drug Discovery & Development - BioFocus DPI has extended its drug discovery agreement with Eli Lilly and Company until end 2009. Under the terms of the agreement, BioFocus DPI will identify active compounds by screening of Lilly’s library compounds.
The agreement extension announced today builds on the successful collaboration begun in March 2005. BioFocus DPI has been working with Lilly on [...]
Fruit flies soar as lab model, drug screen for the deadliest of human brain cancers - LA Jolla, CA—Fruit flies and humans share most of their genes, including 70 percent of all known human disease genes. Taking advantage of this remarkable evolutionary conservation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies transformed the fruit fly into a laboratory model for an innovative study of gliomas, the most common malignant brain tumors.
“Gliomas [...]
The Safe Transfer and Assay of Infectious Agents - Labcyte Awarded U. S. Patent for Transferring Liquids within Sealed Containers
Move Liquids With Sound™
Sunnyvale, CA, December 10, 2008 – Labcyte Inc. announces the issuance of U.S. Patent 7,405,072, which uses the unique advantages of moving liquids with sound to transfer fluids within a sealed container, free from any physical contact. This process can be applied [...]
CytRx Unveils Clinical Development Plan for Pipeline Assets - Names World-Renowned Cancer Drug Expert Dr. Joseph Rubinfeld as Chief Scientific Advisor
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CytRx Corporation (NASDAQ: CYTR) today unveiled its corporate strategy to focus its internal resources on the clinical development of oncology drug [...]
MorphoSys and Galapagos Enter Alliance to Co-develop Novel Therapeutic Antibodies in Bone and Joint Disease
IPR story 12- Patenting a mere idea
A new approach to functional screening of siRNA knockdown
Green protein inhibits Alheimer’s, CSIRO scientists find
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