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Digital Twins: The Future Blueprint for Pharmaceutical Production

Digital Twins have revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry by providing virtual replicas of physical assets and processes This innovative technology offers a comprehensive view of manufacturing

Data Security Challenges in Pharma IT: Safeguarding Sensitive Information

The pharmaceutical industry faces several data security challenges in its IT infrastructure primarily related to safeguarding sensitive information The nature of the data regulatory requirements and the increasing sophistication of cyber threats

Biosimilars in Europe: Expanding Access and Reducing Costs

The use of biosimilars as a part of modern health care systems is also fairly important especially in the context of the European Union as they can enhance the availability of the required treatments and reduce the costs of the health care sector As biologic medicines are recognized as firstline treatments for critical illnesses such as cancer autoimmune diseases and rheumatoid arthritis biosimila...

Digital Biomarkers and Wearables: Transforming Clinical Trial Data Collection

A participant enrolled in a week pharmaceutical trial may spend fewer than six hours inside a clinical site The remaining odd hours of that year the stairs the fatigue the broken nights the good days and the collapsed ones pass unrecorded Clinical development has quietly accepted this trade for decades building enormous capital decisions on a handful of supervised snapshots taken under artificia...

Pharmaceutical Quality Management in Europe: GMP Systems, Quality Control and Manufacturing Standards

A tablet that works in a lab means little if the next batch is slightly different Pharmaceutical quality management exists to make sure every pack in every pharmacy matches the one that was tested and approved In Europe that promise is backed by one of the most mature regulatory frameworks in the world Whether you run a small contract manufacturer in Ireland or a large sterile plant in Germany EU...

AI-Native R&D: Transforming Drug Discovery Through Intelligent Automation

For four decades pharmaceutical research productivity has moved stubbornly in the wrong direction A new medicine still takes ten to fifteen years to reach patients at a capitalised cost approaching US billion

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

A drug repurposing screen reveals dopamine signaling as a candidate therapeutic pathway for PIGA-CDG

PIGACDG is a congenital disorder of glycosylation caused by pathogenic partial lossoffunction variants in the PIGA gene PIGA encodes an enzyme responsible for the catalytic transfer of Nacetylglucosamine

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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