Trends & Forecasts

Nominations are open for the 2017 Power List, but will close in February 2017.

The 21st Century Cures Act is passed through US Congress – and includes big plans for the FDA.

A storm around drug pricing is building for 2017, but it shouldn’t overshadow the great and good.

Is your viscometer approaching the end of its life? Are you starting to feel that your trial and error, ‘rheology-light’ approach to formulation is becoming dated? Or are there longstanding product performance issues that you’re failing to gain traction with, where you suspect rheology may hold the answer? 

Dry powder inhalers are accepted as being complex drug products due to the interactions which occur between the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and excipients within the formulation and the way this then affects the efficiency of drug delivery by the inhaler device. Obtaining component specific particle size and particle shape distribution data can help with understanding the properties of the formulation as part of formulation or deformulation studies. This application note describes how the combination of automated image analysis with Raman spectroscopy in the Morphologi G3-ID allows the individual components present within a dry powder inhaler formulations to be independently characterized and compared.

NanoSight instruments can also operate in fluorescence mode where only fluorescently labeled particles are detected and measured. This application note works through an experiment to approximately establish a baseline in terms of the fluorescence limit of detection for a given fluorophore.

Learn how to use DSC to screen for physical stability of proteins in solution.

Open innovation done right can help overcome funding challenges and accelerate discovery

Collusion, pollution, and a pricing victory for pharma in California… what’s new in business?

Evidence suggests that price controls could hamper innovation and negatively affect patient health outcomes.