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EU adopts electronic product information standard for medicines
The Common Standard for electronic product information (ePI) is intended to improve delivery of information to patients and healthcare providers.
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Prioritising bold innovation throughout the pandemic and beyond
Following his first full year as Managing Director UK, Ireland & Nordics for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, healthcare leader Chinmay Bhatt shares his learnings from the pandemic and reflects on what’s next.
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Challenges in downstream purification of advanced therapies
John Liddell, Chief Technologist at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), writes about the challenges associated with gene therapy products, which constitute a major portion of the overall cell and gene therapy market.
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Portable NIR sensors in medicinal plant quality control
In the quest for fast and reliable ingredient analysis, Christian W Huck, Krzysztof B Bec and Justyna Grabska from the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry at the University of Innsbruck, consider the use of portable NIR spectroscopy, comparing the results from standard and miniaturised sensors.
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Pharmaceutical analysis with portable spectrometers
Richard Crocombe of Crocombe Spectroscopic Consulting surveys the use of portable spectrometers in pharmaceutical manufacturing, with an emphasis on vibrational spectroscopy. Ideal and typical features of portable spectrometers are reviewed, alongside explanation of why device characteristics and sample presentation are critical to obtaining meaningful results.
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2022: Advancing across the blood-brain barrier
The brain is protected by the blood-brain barrier, a multi-layered structure which helps to protect it from the invasion of pathogens or unwanted substances and limits drug transport into the brain via the bloodstream. Here, Dr Oliver Ernst and Dr Heiko Manninga from German biotech company NEUWAY Pharma share details of…
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EPR Podcast Episode 9 – Future of ATMPs – Jérôme Larghero and Julien Textoris, bioMérieux
Is the future of cell and gene therapy autologous or allogeneic? Which solid tumour may receive the first cell therapy treatment? How will the use of ATMPs in cancer care change our healthcare structures in years to come? Discover all this and more in this podcast with bioMérieux.
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Product hub: Rapid contamination testing for cell culture and cell-based samples
The Celsis Adapt™ unlocks advantages of utilising a single in-house RMM, achieving critical results necessary to ensure patient safety.
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Drug Delivery In-Depth Focus 2022
Articles featured in this in-depth focus discuss a technology enabling drugs to be delivered across the blood-brain barrier, the potential of targeted radionuclide therapy as a precision oncology treatment and novel bioconjugation methods to improve biologics drug delivery.
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QA/QC NIR & Raman In-Depth Focus 2022
Articles in this in-depth focus explore the applications of portable spectrometers and review their critical features, as well as comparing the results of standard and miniaturised NIR spectroscopy sensors in medicinal plant QC.
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DARWIN EU® Coordination Centre to integrate real-world evidence into medicines regulation
EMA will establish the DARWIN EU® Coordination Centre to develop and manage a network of real-world healthcare data sources across the EU.
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The microbiome: unlocking the Fourth Industrial (Bio) Revolution
The impending ‘Bio Revolution’, with the microbiome at its foundation, offers ground-breaking solutions and a wealth of opportunity in data science and bioinformatics, explains Anthony Finbow of Eagle Genomics.
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Lab automation systems market to value $6.4bn
Laboratory automation systems are gaining popularity as they expedite and streamline processes, improving product quality while reducing human error.
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Plant “biofactories” produce proteins for potential COVID-19 vaccine
Transiently infecting tobacco plants, researchers were able to produce recombinant proteins that could be developed into COVID-19 vaccines.
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Could COVID-19 vaccines be swallowed?
New pre-clinical research demonstrates the potential of gastric autoinjectors to deliver mRNA in sufficient quantities for vaccination.
