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NanoImaging Services, has opened a new facility close to its San Diego headquarters. The new data collection centre will be the largest private facility for cryoEM data collection globally, says the company, and will serve both national and international clients. Designed to be a data collection farm, this new facility will host up to four […]

The Reality of Virtual Pharmaceutical Companies By Dr Stephen Naylor and Dr Kirkwood A. Pritchard Jr We discuss the oxymoronic proposition of a Virtual Pharmaceutical Company (VPC) and the typical adopted business model, as well as provide examples of such companies currently trying to undertake this adventurous task. The vagaries and complexities of bringing a […]

Precision Medicine Drugs – Pleonasm or Reality? Dr Urban Kiernan and Dr Stephen Naylor The complexity and uniqueness of human metabolism and physiology in the past decade has been highlighted and dissected. Arguments have been made to suggest that our lack of understanding about human individuality has led to the limited efficacy and safety of […]

Automation Of Solid/Powder Dispensing: Much needed, but cautiously used! By Dr John Comley This article investigates solid/powder dispensing in pharma and biotech, examines where it is most used, whether there exists a need to apply automation and what is motivating its wider use today. It reveals how concerns over problematic solids and the dispensing technology […]

LIMS vs ELNs – Arch enemies or best of friends? By David Morris Since the first appearance of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) in the late 1960s, this technology has become commonplace in many, if not most, research and commercial laboratories. This considerable development in LIMS is in response to the increasing demands placed upon […]

High Throughput Screening (HTS) – Where next? By Dr Mark Beggs After approximately a decade of maturation and a three orders of magnitude increase in capabilities, High Throughput Screening (HTS) is now an established discipline within pharmaceutical discovery. But opposing stresses exist within the screening world; the resolution of which will significantly affect the path […]