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Future trends in drug discovery technology

18 December 2012 | By Terry McCann, TJM Consultancy

The average cost to a major pharmaceutical company of developing a new drug is over USD 6 billion1. Herper1 observes that the pharmaceutical industry is gripped by rising failure rates and costs, and suggests that the cost of new drugs will be reduced by new technologies and deeper understanding of…

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Tecan and TAP Biosystems to automate RAFT™ 3D cell culturing on the Freedom EVO®

30 October 2012 | By kdm communications limited

Tecan and TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems, have announced a co-marketing agreement to further expand the automated 3D cell culture capabilities of the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform. Automation of TAP’s collagen-based RAFT™ cell culture system will allow scientists to quickly and conveniently create 3D…

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Platform technology for routine three dimensional cell culture

19 June 2008 | By Dr Stefan Przyborski, Chief Scientific Officer, ReInnervate Ltd, School of Biological and Biomedical Science, Durham University

Cell culture assays play an important role during the first stages of pharmaceutical development. The design of such in vitro models is significant and data resulting from such tests directly influences the progression of compound development. Therefore it is becoming progressively more important to design cell culture assays that are…