ADVISORY/Amgen's Small Molecule Sample Bank Harnesses Robotics Technology to Accelerate Drug Discovery Advances.Business Editors & Medical/Health Writers ADVISORY...for WEDNESDAY Wednesday: see week. NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text news releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) Amgen (Nasdaq:AMGN), the world's leading biotechnology company, and The Automation Partnership (TAP) of Cambridge Cambridge, city, Canada Cambridge (kām`brĭj), city (1991 pop. 92,772), S Ont., Canada, on the Grand River, NW of Hamilton. It was formed in 1973 with the amalgamation of Galt, Hespeler, and Preston, all founded in the early 19th cent. , England, are collaborating to integrate advances in biotechnology with the acceleration of technology in information storage technology and robotics robotics, science and technology of general purpose, programmable machine systems. Contrary to the popular fiction image of robots as ambulatory machines of human appearance capable of performing almost any task, most robotic systems are anchored to fixed positions . TAP is helping Amgen design and build an automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. small molecule sample storage, retrieval and preparation system for potential human therapeutic drug candidates. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?2437 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. video, audio, text, graphics, and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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