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Sustainability in Pharma Manufacturing: A Focus on Green Practices

The pharmaceutical industry is pivotal to global healthcare but its manufacturing processes typically carry a significant environmental burden In recent years there has been an increasing recognition of the importance of sustainability in pharmaceutical manufacturing

The Evolving Role of AI in Pharmaceutical Commercial Strategy

For most of the past decade the pharmaceutical industry told its artificial intelligence story from the laboratory bench Molecule generation protein structure prediction and trial simulation captured the headlines and the capital Yet the economics of this industry have never been settled in discovery alone

Oral Obesity Medicines: How Pills Could Change the European GLP-1 Market

For a decade the European obesity market has been defined by a needle a fridge and a specialist clinic In July that definition broke The European Commission granted marketing authorisation for a oncedaily mg oral semaglutide tablet making it the first GLP receptor agonist

From Static PDFs to Usable Digital Forms in Pharmaceutical Operations

Walk through the quality compliance or operations function of almost any pharmaceutical manufacturer and youll find PDF forms everywhere from deviation reports change controls and training records to supplier questionnaires audit checklists and equipment logs Many of these documents exist as PDF files but functionally still behave like paper Someone prints them fills them in by hand

Why Biopharma is switching to Single-Use Systems: Cost, Quality, and Flexibility

Singleuse biopharma systems have replaced traditional stainlesssteel systems in the biopharmaceutical industry because of a major industry transformation What factors lead the market toward this direction Major factors that drive the industry involve establishing savings from singleuse equipment in pharmaceutical applications

Efficiency in Bioprocessing: Unveiling Upstream and Downstream Operations

Bioprocessing plays a crucial role in the pharmaceutical biotechnology and healthcare industries ensuring the efficient production of biologics vaccines and other biobased products

Techno Trends

USF Researchers Identify New P. vivax Vaccine Target

Researchers at USF Health have identified a previously unknown vulnerability in Plasmodium vivax a major malaria parasite found across parts of Asia and Central and South America

Projects

Evonik Launches US$94 Million (EUR 80 million) Biotechnology Expansion in Slovakia

Evonik has commenced construction of a new biotechnology expansion at its Fermas facility in Slovensk upa Slovakia The development is part of an approximately US million investment EUR million

Research Insights

One-month physicochemical stability study of idarubicin prepared in polyolefin-type bags for the treatment of hematological diseases

Idarubicine is a mainstay of the treatment strategy for hematological cancer The literature lacks stability data that comply with current preparation practices and recommendations for conducting stability studies

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Post-Translational Modifications in Drug Discovery: From Molecular Regulation to Clinical Impact

For decades the central dogma of molecular biology has anchored our understanding of cellular function DNA to RNA to protein But this linear view is incomplete A growing body of evidence shows that much of biologys