Techno Trends
Worldwide advancements and breakthroughs in pharmaceutical products and technology are thoroughly covered by Techno Trends. You may stay up to date with all the most recent pharmaceutical developments (product news and technological trends) taking place throughout the world.
Nested Nanoparticles Make Drug Delivery More Effective
Scientists at the University of Texas have developed a revolutionary drug delivery system using matryoshka doll-inspired nanoparticles. This innovative approach holds great potential...
Device to Control Gene Activity Produced
<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers at the Rockefeller University, United States have come up with a device which enables the control of gene activity during cell multiplication. According to them, the technology, enabling the comparison of gene activities from one cell to another would be important in the construction of pedigrees. It would also help in understanding the interaction of genes and proteins in driving cellular functions.<...
Biochip to simplify drug development safety studies
A collaborative team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., the University of California, Berkeley, and Solidus Biosciences, Inc. has developed an innovative biochip technology aimed at expediting...
ProteoTuner systems to directly investigate protein levels
Clontech has developed a groundbreaking technology called ProteoTuner™ systems, which allows for direct investigation of a protein's functions in vivo by manipulating its levels....
Air-Cooled Peltier Accessories for Accurate Temperature Control
<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many pharmaceutical and life science assays require accurate and constant temperature control in order to acquire meaningful data. Moreover, kinetic measurements are extremely susceptible to variations in temperature, especially over long measurements. In order to provide accurate and precise temperature control, many researchers have discovered that Peltier-based devices provide a low maintenance, cost-effective...
New SmartPill to Diagnose Gastroparesis
<p style=\"text-align:justify\">SmartPill Corporation, the developer of capsule-based medical devices, has launched its SmartPill pH.p Capsule and the SmartPill GI (Gastro Intestinal) Monitoring System, a first-of-its-kind, in-office method for assessing gastric motility index. SmartPill is used in diagnosing patients with GI motility disorder and delayed gastric emptying, a condition also known as gastroparesis. In addition, it comes as the firs...
Mass Spectrometry Platform Combines Triple Quadrupole with MALDI
<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Applied Biosystems and Sciex have commercialised a first-of-its-kind mass spectrometry platform, the FlashQuant™ designed to help pharmaceutical companies speed up the drug compound screening process. This platform is expected to be the first commercially available system to combine industry-standard triple quadrupole mass spectrometry with the MALDI technology.</p> <p style=\"text-align:justify\">MALDI is a...
VESTA - Point and Click Local Thermal Analysis
Anasys Instruments has introduced VESTA, a groundbreaking Local Thermal Analyzer designed to facilitate Quality Control (QC) of drug coatings and formulations in the pharmaceutical industry....
Painless Needle-free Injections - Micro-Jets
Injections will be pain free with Micro-Jets, a novel injector system, a needle-free drug delivery system developed by a team of researchers from University of California in collaboration with StratGent Life Sciences....
Terahertz Imaging Technology for Curbing Counterfeit Drugs
TeraView a UK-based firm has developed the ‘Terahertz Imaging Technology’ which can help regulators and law enforcement agencies fight drug piracy and counterfeit drugs....