DRUG DISCOVERY FEATURED ARTICLES & APPLICATIONS

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  Benefits Of Using ELSD for the Analysis Of Traditional Chinese Medicines

  Traditional Chinese medicines have played an important role in clinical therapy and have been attracting more and more attention for their complementary therapeutic effects to western medicines with low toxicity and few to no complications. With the use of traditional herbal medicines gaining popularity worldwide, the questions of purity and safety of these supplements or natural products have become a concern for public health authorities. The FDA, WHO, and the Chinese Pharmacopoeia have begun generating reliable and accurate analytical techniques to standardize quality control in manufacturing of these supplements to insure the correct identity, authenticity, and lot to lot consistency.

• How Multi-Layer Tablets And Combination Products Are Reshaping Drug Development And Patient Care

  The tablet technology that brought Aspirin, Lipitor and innumerable other drugs to billions of patients is evolving into multi-layer and combination products.

• Choosing The Right CMO For HPAPI Manufacturing

  Over the past few years a steady stream of contract manufacturing organizations (CMO) have added high potency active pharmaceutical ingredient (HPAPI) production   capacity. The expansions give biopharma executives charged with selecting HPAPI production partners an unprecedented number of options, but all this choice creates a problem.

• Residual Water Content In Freeze-Dried Product: Importance, Location And Distribution

  Freeze drying is carried out to enable long term storage. Water affects many products both chemically and physically, so removing the moisture stabilises the product so that its immunologic potency, viability and integrity are not compromised. By Sophie Koenig, Biopharma Technology Limited

• QbD: Lessons Learned From An FDA Filing

  Implementing quality by design offers not only a proactive approach to product development, but also the opportunity to streamline your filing process.

LATEST NEWS

• AB SCIEX Announces Immunosuppressants Kit For Use By Doctors In Europe To Help Care For Organ Transplant Patients

  Every organ transplant patient in the world faces the potential danger of his/her body rejecting a new organ, such as a heart, kidney or liver. Immunosuppressant drugs are required to help prevent rejection

• Genedata Biologics 4.0 Enables Large-Scale Design, Synthesis, And Testing Of Bispecific Antibodies
• Jazz Pharmaceuticals And Gentium Announce European Commercial Launch Of First Approved Life-Saving Treatment For Severe Hepatic Veno-Occlusive Disease
• Convergence Pharmaceuticals (‘Convergence’ Or ‘The Company’) - Convergence And Evotec Form Integrated Pain Alliance
• Kindred Bio And X-Body Announce An Exclusive Collaboration For Discovery Of Antibodies For Companion Animal Health

FEATURED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Sensolux Intelligent Shaker Tray

Shaker tray SENSOLUX^® stand-alone version is an intelligent shaker tray with an integrated sensor system. It is used for monitoring pH value and dissolved oxygen (DO) saturation during cultivation of animal and human cells. The SENSOLUX^® clamps ensure an exact positioning of the SENSOLUX^® EF and thus the right orientation for a precise measurement. 

Change Management Software

The TrackWise Change Management solution ensures all documented changes are properly coordinated while increasing transparency by managing the change control process across all relevant departments from initial request, through pre- approvals, change execution, follow up approvals and implementation.

Diode-Array Spectrometers

The AH4100 Spectrometer is a miniature single-beam spectrometer offering excellent performance in a rugged and compact package.

Syringe Filling

Prefilled syringes offer several advantages over traditional packaging in vials. Microbial contamination is minimized due to less manipulation.

HPLC Simulator

This HPLC Simulator allows users to input one or more chemical structures and then predict the relative retention times on a high performance liquid chromatography column.

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