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Why Europe Is Becoming a Strategic Hub for Advanced API Manufacturing

For most of the past three decades API manufacturing was treated as a line item to be minimised Molecules moved east margins improved and European sites were consolidated sold or quietly retired The logic was sound as long as global supply chains behaved predictably They no longer do Pandemicera disruptions recurring shortages of antibiotics and other essential medicines

Greening the Pill: Pharmaceutical Companies Embrace Environmental Sustainability

In an age where global environmental sustainability is imperative various industries are reassessing their practices to diminish their ecological impact The pharmaceutical sector a crucial component of healthcare is no different This article explores the proactive steps taken by pharmaceutical companies to incorporate sustainability into manufacturing packaging and operations to lessen their envir...

Role of Excipients in Drug Formulation: Functions, Types, and Applications

Whenever we consider medicines we tend to immediately jump into thinking about the active pharmaceutical ingredients APIs the substances that have therapeutic effects However APIs are not enough to develop stable effective and patientfriendly medicines This is where pharmaceutical excipients would come in The importance of excipients in the case of pharmaceuticals can go well beyond the level

How Mass Spectrometers Are Transforming the Study of Metabolomics

The mechanism of metabolomics can be described as a relatively young science which is rather popular in modern science and investigates metabolites which are the small molecules that take part in the metabolic processes inside the living organism This discipline therefore has great potential as a tool in proactively unraveling a diverse range of biological occurrences disease processes or even tre...

Pre-Formulation Studies and Analytical Techniques in Pharmaceutical Formulation Development

Development of pharmaceutical formulations is a very important phase in the drug development process which lies between a drug molecule that is discovered and a dose form that can be commercially developed It is a process that involves designing optimizing and validating drug products to make sure that they are safe effective and able to be taken by patients Preformulation studies form a significa...

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

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