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• Sandoz to invest $80 million in Boucherville facilities

  Sandoz Canada announced that it will invest $80 million in its Boucherville facilities as demand for its generic sterile injectable pharmaceuticals continues to grow in Canada and around the world. In addition to more than 100 new positions created in 2006, 100 additional jobs will be created in Can more

• Bayer Outlines New Global R&D Structures

  Bayer HealthCare announced a structural realignment of its global pharmaceutical research and development organization. The company also outlined its future U.S. pharma site plan, and said that New Jersey will be home to its U.S. headquarters for pharmaceuticals. These moves follow Bayer's acquisiti more

• Bayer and Schering optimistic about their common future

  Following the success of Bayer's takeover offer for Schering, the two companies are confident about their common future. "We will combine two successful pharmaceutical companies to form a single, even more powerful unit and create a leading global enterprise," said Bayer Management Board Chairman We more

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• Radiofluorinated Carbohydrates for Positron Emission Tomography

  Abstract: 2-Deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (2-18FDG) has represented radiofluorinated carbohydrates as the most successful tracer for positron emission tomography (PET). 2-18FDG uptake depends on glucose metabolism, which is related to a disease progression. 2-18FDG has been widely used in onc more

• Multi-electrode array technologies for neuroscience and cardiology

  Nature Nanotechnology 8, 83 (2013). doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.265 Authors: Micha E. Spira & Aviad Hai more

• Modeling of Open, Closed, and Open-Inactivated States of the hERG1 Channel: Structural Mechanisms of the State-Dependent Drug Binding

  The human ether-a-go-go related gene 1 (hERG1) K ion channel is a key element for the rapid component of the delayed rectified potassium current in cardiac myocytes. Since there are no crystal structures for hERG channels, creation and validation of its reliable atomistic models have been key target more

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