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25 June 2019 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Analytical techniques for QA/QC purposes are integral to the safe production of therapeutics. This in-depth focus looks at Raman spectroscopy for amorphous phase analysis and discusses the viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state of bacteria in environmental monitoring.
27 February 2019 | By Nikki Withers (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Researchers have developed a microscope that may provide insight into how safely and effectively a drug will perform in the body...
27 February 2019 | By Emil W. Ciurczak
For decades, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been an invaluable tool within the laboratory and, interestingly, despite all the excellent instrumentation and technologies introduced for process control, NIR is still the most popular and mature technique available. This article will discuss the impact of NIR in pharmaceuticals from the perspective of…
11 February 2019 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Researchers have identified a method of improving the performance of infrared imaging techniques which could be useful in medical applications...
30 January 2019 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
The SIFOM system uses 3D observation of cells and 3D stimulation of cells based on digital holography, and could help construct artificial neural networks...
17 January 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Researchers have developed a method that can use 3D microscopy to develop ALMOST, A Label-free Multicolor Optical Surface Tomography...
19 December 2018 | By Harald Fischer
Sophisticated hardware and software offer speed and precision. Pharmaceutical development often involves samples in solution or on transparent substrates. For these applications, confocal Raman imaging using an inverted beam path is an especially versatile and powerful investigative method.
13 December 2018 | By WItec GmbH
90 years ago Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan first documented "A New Type of Secondary Radiation," which then became known as the Raman Effect [1, 2]. Raman spectroscopy is based on this effect and is used for qualitative and quantitative analysis of the chemical components and molecules of…
6 December 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Research into detecting tau proteins in the brains of Alzheimer's patients has shown that a specific tracer could detect and measure the protein levels...
26 November 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Articifial intelligence has been used to administer lower doses of gadolinium, a contrast agent often left in the body after magnetic resonance imaging...
22 November 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Harvard researchers have developed a metacorrector, a single-layer surface of nanostructures that can eliminate chromatic aberrations across visible light...
12 November 2018 | By Iqra Farooq (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Researchers have developed a miniature version of the musical instrument pipe organ that could be used to improve the quality of medical imaging...
9 November 2018 | By Iqra Farooq (European Pharmaceutical Review)
A mini transfocator that weighs less than 2 kilograms has been developed and can be used to change the focus of the x-rays gradually...
1 November 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
High-resolution MRI imaging techniques have been developed by a team of researchers through looking closely at antennas and how they function...
25 October 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Small spectrometry chips could be the future for materials analysis systems, optical coherent tomography in medical imaging and in optical networks...
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