Redefining outsourcing: How the CDMO sector is reshaping its business
An ageing population, patent expirations, growth of disease prevalence, and expensive breakthrough therapies are driving demand for the development of many new pharmaceutical products. These growing pressures mean that pharmaceutical developers are faced with...
Drug Substances: Navigating Regulatory Requirements
With a central focus on human safety, high quality standards for drug products are upheld worldwide through various drug agencies. In order to ensure that drug products intended for human use fulfil the safety...
Cold Chain Logistics: Powering Asia’s Biopharma Boom
As Asia’s healthcare systems mature, demand for the latest bio-pharmaceutical medicines is soaring. Most of these medicines are highly sensitive to temperature, meaning reliable cold chain services are crucial for effectively deploying biopharma across...
New furnace for the innovative and sustainable production of clear-glass containers for solid and...
Gerresheimer in Essen produces many millions of glass containers for the pharmaceutical industry every year. The long-established company has recently completed the routine renovation of its clear-glass furnace. Despite being more powerful, its improved...
Structure and conformational dynamics of fluorine-containing drugs – new insights for small molecule development...
Introduction
19F NMR spectrometry is firmly established as a powerful and highly attractive tool in most pharma analytical labs. In this article we summarize the information the technique provides to small molecule drug development scientists...
How modern analytical instruments and intelligent software are accelerating metabolite identification in drug discovery...
Intelligent technologies are transforming the pharmaceutical industry at a company and sector level, where tools such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain are pushing the limits of data analysis and accelerating decision-making. Meanwhile,...
The increase in global demand for in vitro performance testing models for topical products
The most common way to deliver a drug is systemically via an oral tablet or injection. In many cases, delivery of a drug via these routes may not be possible (poor bioavailability) or desirable...
The growing world of pharmaceutical supply chain
Pharma and Air Cargo- A match climbing-up the ladder
One of the most important developments that took place ever in the invention space was indeed the advent of air cargo. Due to this, the economies...
Calcium: A key nutrient for healthy bones
With an increasingly ageing global population, maintaining bone health for as long as possible is becoming a critical issue. This opens up excellent prospects for calcium supplements.
Calcium is one of the most abundant minerals...
Preventing excursions in controlled lanes
Moving temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals through controlled cold chain shipping lanes is fraught with challenges. Do the specialist packaging companies have everything covered? Clive Bryant, Global Product and Marketing Director of Softbox Systems, looks at how...