Pharma Articles

Articles on key issues related to the pharma industry from the heads of leading pharmaceutical companies and pharma industry experts across the globe. The pharma industry articles' section focuses on current and emerging issues in areas such as Strategic developments in the pharma industry, pharmaceutical R&D, drug discovery, clinical trials, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, and information technology.

Advancing Automation and Digitalization in the Industrial Microbiology Workflow

Industrial microbiology is a critical function in the biopharmaceutical sector as its purpose is to monitor for contamination events and inform development of standard operating procedures to minimize the risk of contamination As the industry makes the shift to digitalized labs you will see more aut...

3D Printing Revolutionising Nanotechnology

Threedimensional D printing is a prototyping method which works through layerbylayer fabrication making rapid conversion of instruction from digital D diagrams into physical objects It is a manufacturing method in which objects or any machinery are made by fusing or depositing any materials in layer...

Is Convex Dose Dependence A Side Effect That Multiple Drug Treatment Causes?

Monotonic dose dependence is often regarded as evidence that the drug is effective It is supposed to be used as a criterion to seek genes whose expression is specifically affected On the other hand multiple dose treatment can cause more complicated dose dependence eg convex Excluding genes that exhi...

Envisioning the Biomanufacturing Facility of the Future

Development and delivery of lifesaving therapeutics to patients in the most efficient and costeffective manner possible is the goal of biomanufacturers While templated processes in biologic manufacturing have served to decrease timelines over the past years legacy approaches remain highly manual As...

Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs)

Problems and remedy by nanotechnology-based approaches
The accessibility of sufficient pure water in terms of both quantity and quality is vital for human existence Unfortunately our hydric resources have become seriously polluted due to the continuous expansion of industries and urbanisation

Advanced Nanobots for ‘Programmed’ Biomedical Applications

The idea of nanobots that could perform programmed tasks at targeted sites by traveling through biological fluids is no more in science fiction now Recent development in the field of nanotechnology provides the scope of designing miniaturised tiny nanobots which are even smaller than the dimension o...

Are We Ready to Ship Billions of COVID Vaccines Worldwide?

Theres no denying it has been a year of immense difficulty and disruptionMany now look forward to and the muchanticipated prospect of COVID vaccines as the gateway to global recovery Naturally as one of the the worlds leading logistics companies FedEx has an important role to play in vaccine shipm...

Personalised Therapy

The Perspectives of Agglomerates
Drugs can be formulated in the form of tablets pellets emulsion cream and many others for patient consumption The dosage form development is primarily aimed to promote therapeutic effectiveness and mitigate adverse side effects Precision medicine encompasses six perspectives personalised predictive...

Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) for The Clinical Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus(COVID-19) Infection

The outbreak of a novel Coronavirus COVID in has led to an unexpected alteration in human lives and economic activities There is a global increase in the number of COVID infected people every day and the ability of this virus to spread rapidly has been a major concern

Luminescent Carbon Dots: An Emerging Nanomedicine to Treat Antibiotic Resistant Bacterial Infections

Globally the number of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections is increasing significantly while conventional antibiotics recommended as a gold standard medicine have now become futile Therefore demand for an alternative of antibiotics is on for a long time In this regard the advent of nanoscience...

Electronic Counters for Bottle Filling

What are the problems and can we do something about that?
When a label on a bottle says tablets we assume there are tablets inside dont we Not or but exactly To be more precise it is expected that the bottle contains exactly undamaged tablets of the same kind Obviously bottle filling technology must meet two bigger requirements namely high accuracy f...

Bioscintigraphy: An Innovative Tool For Drug Product Development

Development of a new drug product remains a costly affair and figures of about billion are quoted for development of one successful product Surveys often show that more than of the expenditure on drug product development

Nano-based Drug Delivery System for Hacking Colon Cancer Cells

Cancer is a major cause of fear of death in both the developed and the developing country and also a leading public health problem Colorectal cancer is the fourth most cancer detected worldwide although significant progress in therapy still leads to significant mortality and mobility

Prioritisation of Raw Materials in Healthcare Industry

Using statistical process controltools for stock management
An establishment ofan appropriate and effective system for monitoring and control of the goods mobility in the warehouses is an important integral part of GXP to ensure an uninterrupted flow of the manufacturing industrial work This process should be done without any shortage or overstocking of the...

Laser Vaccine Adjuvants

Corona virus, Influenza and beyond
Vaccine adjuvants represent an essential tool to augment human immune response Despite significant advances in medical research practical progress in commercial development of new modalities has been slow till recently Alum salts have remained a gold standard adjuvant for almost one hundred years si...