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.

COMPAS - New Technology for Determining the Cardiac Safety Profile of Drugs

A cutting-edge technology has been introduced to enhance the understanding of cardiac safety in the pharmaceutical industry during drug development. This innovation consists of a software called COMPAS...

ARTEL\\\'s Latest Innovation to Optimize Automated Liquid Handlers

<p>Measuring the performance of an automated liquid delivery device precisely and accurately requires verifying the performance of individual channel and dispenses using very small volumes of liquid. Also the process must be user-friendly, fast and robust for the laboratories to use it frequently without much downtime. In the past, several methods for such multi-channel equipment calibration have been used with varying degrees of success like gra...

Pall Corporation's Flexible Containment System to Ensure Workers' Safety

<p>To protect the workers and the surrounding environment from exposure to harmful compounds, Pall Corporation has introduced a flexible system, called GBK Containment system, which will ensure safe handling of potent compounds. As new and more hazardous APIs are entering the pipeline, companies are facing an increasing challenge to ensure their workers’ safety. It is estimated that about 5-10% of the commercially available drugs are highly...

New Label Replacement Solution for Secondary Packaging

<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Labelling for secondary packaging traditionally involves self-adhesive, thermal transfer printed labels. The outer cases use large character inkjet printing to display the information. As an economic and innovative alternative, DataLase Technologies has introduced Casemark &ndash; a new label replacement solution that gives 30-50% of savings in cost for a medium volume line. In addition, the investment has a payb...

New Approach to Manipulating GPCRs

<p style=\"text-align:justify\">G-protein-coupled receptors or GPCRs are the most important signalling mechanism in human cells. They react on exposure to the nutrients, toxins, hormones and light particles. The major blockbuster drugs target the GPCRs for treatment of many diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression and arthritis. These drugs affect GPCRs behaviour external to the cells. Research scientists have devised a way ...

New Antibiotic by Merck that Fights Bacteria

In today's landscape of drug discovery, only a limited number of pharmaceutical companies are investing in antibiotic research, as the majority prefer to focus on developing profitable drugs for chronic diseases....