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VESTA - Point and Click Local Thermal Analysis
<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Introduction</strong></h4> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anasys Instruments has launched VESTA, the world’s first easy to use Local Thermal Analyzer to help pharmaceutical companies' Quality Control (QC) of drug coatings and formulations. VESTA, the world's only available thermal analysis solution for applications involving localized thermal analysis of heterogeneous samples, surfaces ...
Painless Needle-free Injections - Micro-Jets
<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Injections will be pain free with Micro-Jets, a novel injector system, a needle-free drug delivery system developed by a team of researchers from University of California in collaboration with StratGent Life Sciences. This novel needle-free injection would increase patient comfort while eliminating the risk to healthcare workers from needle-stick injuries by delivering macromolecules such as protein therapeutics ...
Terahertz Imaging Technology for Curbing Counterfeit Drugs
<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TeraView a UK-based firm has developed the ‘Terahertz Imaging Technology’ which can help regulators and law enforcement agencies fight drug piracy and counterfeit drugs. The technology helps identify counterfeit drugs by generating the structure of tablet coatings and cores by scanning the tablets and comparing the results against a database of known tablet ‘fingerprints’.</p> <p style=\"...
Aurora B as an Anti-Cancer Drug Target
<p>A novel class of drugs - being developed by a major pharmaceutical company - targets an enzyme that helps cells divide; in cancer, this enzyme, called Aurora B, goes into overdrive, possibly leading to uncontrolled and abnormal cell divisions.</p> <div class=\"leftim\"> <p><img alt=\"Immunofluorescence Images Showing Localisation Of Exogenous Aurora Proteins\" src=\"http://www.pharmafocusasia.com/knowledge_bank/technotrends/images/aurora_prot...
MHC Class II UltimersT from ProImmune
<div class=\"leftim\"> <p><img alt=\"MHC Class II Ultimers™\" src=\"http://www.pharmafocusasia.com/knowledge_bank/technotrends/images/PI2.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:195px\" /><br /> <strong>MHC Class II Ultimers™</strong> ProImmune manufactures MHC Class II Ultimers™, a multimer technology with a superior peptide-linked planar design and optimized fluorochrome for immunologists who wish to detect and quantitate CD4+ antigen-spe...
Millipore\'s innovative MobiusT Disposable TFF Assemblies
<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Millipore Corporation has announced the availability of new Mobius™ disposable TFF assemblies, which offer flexible, self-contained solutions that reduce validation efforts, increase process speed and mitigate risks. Mobius disposable TFT assemblies are being showcased at IBC Disposables for Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing conference, California.</p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Millipore employs appr...
COMPAS - New Technology for Determining the Cardiac Safety Profile of Drugs
<p>A new technology has been launched to help the pharmaceutical industry better understand the cardiac safety profile of the drugs they are developing. It consists of a software called ‘COMPAS’ (which stands for Comprehensive Analysis of Repolarisation Signal) and unique ECG Biometrics. While the COMPAS software has been developed by the Heart Research Follow-up Program, a part of University of Rochester Medical Center, the ECG Biome...
ARTEL\\\'s Latest Innovation to Optimize Automated Liquid Handlers
<p>Measuring the performance of an automated liquid delivery device precisely and accurately requires verifying the performance of individual channel and dispenses using very small volumes of liquid. Also the process must be user-friendly, fast and robust for the laboratories to use it frequently without much downtime. In the past, several methods for such multi-channel equipment calibration have been used with varying degrees of success like gra...
Pall Corporation's Flexible Containment System to Ensure Workers' Safety
<p>To protect the workers and the surrounding environment from exposure to harmful compounds, Pall Corporation has introduced a flexible system, called GBK Containment system, which will ensure safe handling of potent compounds. As new and more hazardous APIs are entering the pipeline, companies are facing an increasing challenge to ensure their workers’ safety. It is estimated that about 5-10% of the commercially available drugs are highly...
New Label Replacement Solution for Secondary Packaging
<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Labelling for secondary packaging traditionally involves self-adhesive, thermal transfer printed labels. The outer cases use large character inkjet printing to display the information. As an economic and innovative alternative, DataLase Technologies has introduced Casemark – a new label replacement solution that gives 30-50% of savings in cost for a medium volume line. In addition, the investment has a payb...
