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Using Mass Spectrometry as Quality Control in Medicinal Cannabis

Cannabis plants contain a wide variety of complex compounds including phytocannabinoids terpenoids and flavonoids found mainly in the inflorescences Major phytocannabinoids like CBD and THC have beneficial effects on human health

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

The Role of Biopharmaceutics in Early Drug Development

Biopharmaceutics is a major branch in pharmaceutical lores which relates between the physicochemical parcels of a medicine in lozenge form and the pharmacology toxicology or clinical response observed after its administration medicineefficacity and safety are dependent on the dosing authority The optimal lozenge and dosing intervals can be relatively different for different medicines Also for a si...

Pre-Formulation Studies and Analytical Techniques in Pharmaceutical Formulation Development

Development of pharmaceutical formulations is a very important phase in the drug development process which lies between a drug molecule that is discovered and a dose form that can be commercially developed It is a process that involves designing optimizing and validating drug products to make sure that they are safe effective and able to be taken by patients Preformulation studies form a significa...

From Lab to Market: The Journey of a New Drug

The process of synthesizing a new drug takes many years and several phases and all of them are important for the drug safety and efficacy Which from the first identification in a lab to the final approval of use by the public is a process that takes over years and this involves work done by scientists various agencies and other health care givers

From Molecule to Market: Building a Regulatory-Ready Manufacturing Strategy

Every pharmaceutical executive can recite the journey from molecule to market Far fewer can say with confidence at which point in that journey their manufacturing strategy became capable of withstanding a regulatory inspection The distinction matters more than it once did Approval timelines are compressing

Techno Trends

UGA researchers develop oral drug candidate targeting drug-resistant malaria

Researchers from the University of Georgia UGA and the University of Illinois Chicago have developed a new oral antimalarial drug candidate that could help address drugresistant malaria

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