Vaccines

Could public health suffer if the pharma industry doesn’t learn to win back trust?

In this application note, we discuss how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) is used to measure the size and concentration of nanoparticles used for drug delivery, such as liposomes, in order to determine efficacy and rate of uptake, degradation and clearance from the body.

Is a vaccine for the common cold impossible? Scientists believe not

Can bioinformatics point the way towards a universal flu vaccine?

A universal flu vaccine is not impossible for the industry – we just need bioinformatics.

Bioterrorism concerns prompt the UK government to fund development of a vaccine for plague.

Why has Médecins Sans Frontières rejected an offer of free vaccines from Pfizer?

This article explains how an inline probe was used to monitor a granulation at three different scales to confirm that, in each case, the granules produced were the same size, and more importantly produced tablets of identical quality as quantified by hardness.

In this application note we describe the use of Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) for size and concentration measurements of drug delivery nanoparticles. In addition, by using a fluorescently tagged drug molecule, it was possible to determine how many drug delivery nanoparticles had successfully been loaded with drug molecules.

Andrew Lees lightheartedly states that he has built his career on two tenets: multivalency and being lazy. And it’s worked out well; while moonlighting as a magician, he has developed the conjugation chemistry behind some of the world's most-used vaccines. Here, he explains how he learned to combine science and magic.