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The lab instrumentation industry is now set for revival after having gone through a period of slump due to economic meltdown. This is not only because of the general improvement in the life sciences sector in the second quarter of the fiscal 2009-10, but also due to revival of projects, capacity expansion and launch of [...]

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has called for proposals from professionally-led and managed financial institutions registered under the Indian Companies Act 1956 or Societies Registration Act 1860 to function as the ‘SBIRI Management Agency’ (SMA) under small business innovation research initiative (SBIRI) scheme from 2010 onwards. The SBIRI scheme, which was launched in 2005-06 to support [...]

Glenmark Generics Inc, the US unit of Glenmark Generics Ltd , on Monday said that it has settled all pending litigation with Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp relating to patent actions regarding Fluocinonide. Fluocinonide is the generic version of Medicis’ Vanos cream and Ciclopirox Olamine, the generic version of Medicis’ Laprox gel, it said in a statement to [...]

Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo, which controls Ranbaxy Laboratories, will use the Indian company as a launch pad to sell its patented drugs in Europe, China and the US and will work together in developing new products, a senior company official said. “Ranbaxy will launch our products that go off patent in developed markets such as Europe and [...]