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Issue #6 2014 – Digital edition
In Issue #6 2014: Polymerase Chain Reaction, Imaging, PAT in-depth focus, Screening in-depth focus, Microbiology Series and much more...
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Issue 6 2014
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Screening: In-Depth Focus 2014
This free-to-view Screening In-Depth Focus is packed with articles that will give you a greater understanding of interesting topics such as the identification of compounds that protect against free radicals, advancements in sandwich immunoassay techniques and hit validation and optimisation...
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PAT: In-Depth Focus 2014
This PAT In-Depth Focus explores current challenges posed by the slow uptake of Process Analytical Technology within the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. The advantages of incorporating PAT into the pharmaceutical process are highlighted in two informative articles, and possible solutions to its lack of popularity surmised...
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Eurofins BioPharma product testing laboratories
23 December 2014 | By Eurofins BioPharma
The largest network of harmonised bio/pharmaceutical gross manufacturing product (GMP) testing laboratories worldwide, Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing enables companies to advance candidates from development through to commercialisation while ensuring regulatory compliance, cost effectiveness and achievement of timelines...
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Your next clinical biomarker will be assayed by mass spectrometry….or not!
23 December 2014 | By Axel Ducret, Biochemist
This article will focus on some of the critical aspects of transition biomarkers discovered in classical (MS-based) proteomics workflows and on the challenges to be met before validated assays can become more routine in the clinical laboratory...
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Review of regulatory changes impacting on pharamceutical microbiology
23 December 2014 | By Dr Tim Sandle, Bio Products Laboratory
This article surveys some of the recent developments in regulatory requirements and standards that have taken place during the past 12 months, highlighting those aspects that are of relevance to pharmaceutical microbiology...
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Imaging for decision-making in drug discovery and early development
23 December 2014 | By Paul McCracken & Stephen Krause
The cost of drug discovery and development, depending upon the size of a given company, has been estimated upwards of $5 billion. Hay et al. recently published a review of clinical development success rates showing only a 10.4% likelihood of regulatory approval of all drugs entering Phase I, 64.5% of…
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The evolving field of PCR: which method will you choose?
23 December 2014 | By Natalia Meani and Manuela Vecchi
Recognised as one of the major scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a quick and simple method to create, in a test tube, millions of copies of a given DNA segment from a complex mixture of genetic material. This method has greatly stimulated biochemical, molecular…
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Cocrystals: defining the opportunity
Cocrystals can help to address the manufacturability (flow, compaction, processability) as well as solubility/dissolution,hygroscopicity and stability properties of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API).
