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Issue #4 2016 – Digital edition
In this issue: Regulation, Environmental Monitoring, Drug Delivery; Microbiology, Track & race, Spectroscopy, HPLC, Mass Spectrometry, and much more...
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Drug Delivery Systems
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Quotient Clinical hosts formulation development and drug delivery seminar series
15 June 2016 | By Quotient Clinical
Quotient Clinical, the Translational Pharmaceutics® company, is holding a series of formulation development and drug delivery seminars this June and July...
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Quotient Clinical and Upperton announce a spray drying partnership to deliver integrated formulation development and GMP manufacturing programs for poorly soluble drugs
4 May 2016 | By Quotient Clinical
Quotient Clinical and Upperton have announced a partnership to address drug delivery challenges...
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Issue #2 2016 – Digital edition
In this issue: Regulation, Oncology, Single Use, Robotics, Microbiology, PAT, Mass Spectrometry, Drug Delivery, Nanotechnology, and much more...
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Stem cell nano drug delivery applications to treat diabetes
Stem cell therapy is currently utilised in medicine for its application in tissue repair and regenerative medicine. Unique characteristics of stem cells, such as self-renewal and differentiation, allow its function to be applicable for therapeutic purposes. Nanotechnology and cell microencapsulation have been researched and used as a means to protect…
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Nanotechnology tackles problems with noninvasive glucose monitoring
For diabetes mellitus patients who treat themselves with insulin, the need to self-monitor blood glucose in order to establish their insulin dose is a major burden, and highlights the need to develop non-invasive glucose measurement technologies. Up until now, such non-invasive systems that also have adequate measurement performance under daily…
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Issue #1 2016 – Digital edition
In Issue #1 2016: Regulation, Drug Delivery, Raman, PAT, Formulation, NIR, Microbiology, and much more...
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Four trends that will transform healthcare in Europe in 2016
29 February 2016 | By Warren Hochfeld, Jenna Riffell and Neil Levinson from Kaiser Associates
With 2015 giving some hints of what is to come, the Kaiser Associates European Healthcare team are predicting another year of big disruptions, transformations and innovations as the healthcare industry continues to overhaul outmoded business models...
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The role of drug transporters at the blood brain barrier
29 February 2016 | By Jasminder Sahi and Yi Li, Sanofi R&D
The human brain is the most highly perfused organ in the body, being composed of over 100 billion capillaries with an average inter-capillary distance of 50μm and a length greater than 600km. This extensive network of blood vessels facilitates the delivery of nutrients and oxygen to the brain, while providing…
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High Pressure Homogenisation & the next generation of drug delivery: Liposomes
24 February 2016 | By Biopharma Group
Liposomes are valued delivery vehicles for potent and efficacious active pharmaceuticals...
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Issue #3 2015 – Digital edition
In Issue #3 2015: Regulatory Insight, Microfluidics, PCR in-depth focus, Drug Delivery, Content Uniformity, HPLC, Microbiology in-depth focus, NMR, PAT and much more...
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Polyelectrolyte complexes as nanoparticulate drug delivery systems
3 July 2015 | By Anita Umerska, University of Anger and Lidia Tajber, Trinity College Dublin
Polyelectrolyte complexes at the nanoscale (polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles; PECNs) can be harnessed as drug delivery systems for a range of low molecular weight drugs as well as peptides and proteins. The mild method of manufacture of PECNs results in the protection of the loaded bioactive and the choice of polyions…
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Issue #1 2015 – Digital edition
In Issue #1 2015: Regulatory Insight, Biologics, NIR in-depth focus, Raman in-depth focus, PAT, Drug Delivery, Microbiology Series and much more...
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Evaluating inhaler performance using idealised throats
10 March 2015 | By Andrew R. Martin and Warren H. Finlay, University of Alberta
The development of orally-inhaled drug products is a complex endeavour spanning multiple technical and medical fields. For the treatment of respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the inhalation delivery route permits the drug to be directly targeted to the afflicted organ, namely the lung. As…
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Particle characterisation in drug delivery
5 September 2014 | By Driton Vllasaliu and Ishwar Singh, University of Lincoln
The use of materials in nano-scale dimensions is proving to be a promising approach to overcome drug delivery challenges. ‘Nanomedicine’ technologies are gradually achieving commercial success and reaching the clinic. Sub-micron nanocarriers have the potential to ferry the therapeutic to its site of action and in this process overcome the…
