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Gene Therapy: Breakthrough Treatments for Rare Diseases

The idea of gene therapy is radically changing the sphere of medicine with the possibilities to cure the patients with the rare hereditary diseases These diseases which are usually brought about by the alteration of the sequence

Chiral Biosensors: Precision Tools for Safer Drugs

The pharmaceutical industry has long been recognised the profound implications of chirality in drug design and development Enantiomers mirrorimage isomers of a chiral molecule show dramatically distinct pharmacokinetic PK and pharmacodynamic PD profiles One may be therapeutically active while its counterpart could be inactive or harmful As a result the precise detection discrimination and quantifi...

Understanding Pharmacodynamics: The Science behind Drug Action Mechanisms

In the complicated world of pharmacology pharmacodynamics is also a place that is a bridge between chemistry and physiology Drugs do something somewhere and this explains how they do it In a simple way pharmacodynamics studies the action of drugs the effects of drugs in terms of their biochemical and physiological effects and how the effects are generated

Innovative Pricing Models in the EU: Making Medicines Affordable for All

Pricing policies are important determinants in delivering sufficiently cheap medicines in all the member nations of the EU High costs of meeting the required medical care together with arising independent differentiated technological improvements have rendered exhausted pricing structures as uncompetitive tools for fairness New mechanisms of pricing have been introduced

Exploring the Benefits of Bioassay in Pharmacology

Pharmacology the study of drugs and their effects on living organisms is a multifaceted field crucial to the development and improvement of pharmaceuticals Bioassay a method that assesses the potency of substances

Fundamentals of Clinical Pharmacology: Understanding Drug Actions and Ensuring Safety

Clinical pharmacology offers the interface between the philosophies of pharmacology and its application in the actual sense in patient care Fundamentally it is the science which examines the activities of drugs how drugs communicate with biological systems and how such communications result in treatment outcomes or adverse events Clinical pharmacology principles are needed to make sense of how m...

Techno Trends

Alume Biosciences Secures FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Bevonescein

Alume Biosciences has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation BTD from the US Food and Drug Administration FDA for bevonescein an investigational fluorescent drug being developed to support realtime nerve visualisation during head and neck surgery in adults Bevonescein is an intravenous fluorescent peptidedye conjugate that binds to nerve tissue

Projects

SK pharmteco Plans More Than US$200 Million Investment in Small Molecule and Peptide Manufacturing

SK pharmteco is planning a fiveyear investment of more than US million to expand and modernise its pharmaceutical development and manufacturing operations in the United States The programme will strengthen capabilities for small molecules and peptides while supporting a more

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