Welcoming Scientech Labs to the Contract Laboratory Network
Scientech’s expertise spans a vast array of services, from analytical testing and stability studies to consulting and formulation testing.
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Pharmaceuticals
Webinar: Preformulation Coming Soon to a New Compound Entity (NCE) Designed by You
Join us as Brent Hilker, Manager, Preformulation CoreRx explains the techniques and challenges associated with today's drug development
Sterility Testing: Ensuring Safety in Critical Industries
Ensuring product sterility is vital for patient safety, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance across pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotech sector
Constitution Laboratories: Transformative Development of Emerging Technologies
Smaller CROs can provide new testing services quickly and readily adopt novel technologies to successfully meet developmental challenges in laboratories. Herman Lelie PhD and founder of Constitution Laboratories discusses the mission and technological focus of his business.
ASK THE LAB EXPERT: The Complex Nature of Drug Formulation: Stories from a Formulation Lab
Drug formulation is and continues to be challenging. Every product is different. Every drug behaves differently based on its physicochemical properties. Understanding those properties through preformulation and in vitro permeability testing is important in designing an appropriate dosage form.
What are Pharmaceutical Drug ADME Studies?
ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) studies are designed to investigate how a chemical is processed by an organism.
Productive Research Requires Careful Model Selection and Routine Authentication
This expert Q&A session from PharmaPlanter's founder explores the importance of these efforts in producing reliable results. Expert Bio: Dr. Hongwei CHENG is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of PharmaPlanter Technologies. Dr. Cheng was trained as a...
Small and Large Molecules: Pharmaceutical Drug Development
The classification and significance of molecules in pharmacology and their distinct properties. 90% of current drugs are small molecules, but large molecules are quickly rising in popularity and importance. In the world of pharmacology and drug development, the...
Toxicology Testing
The field of toxicology is a branch of science that "helps us understand the harmful effects that chemicals, substances, or situations, can have on people, animals, and the environment." The field of toxicology has evolved from focusing on chemicals and poisons to...
What are USP Standards?
The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) is a nonprofit organization aimed at helping to improve human health worldwide through the creation of standards that ensure the "quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods." Additionally, the USP publishes drug product and...
Pharmacogenetics Testing | Precision Medicine Testing
Pharmacogenetics is a branch of science that studies how a person's genetics influence their response to pharmaceuticals (read an entry to pharmacogenetics, here). Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) are one of the biggest influences in the study of pharmacogenetics, as...
Cancer Research – NYU Creates Molecule to Fight Cancer Cells
Need a laboratory for cancer research? Today, the US National Science Foundation issued a Press Release that the New York University Tandon School of Engineering has created a new synthetic hybrid molecule that delivers a blow to breast cancer cells. The hybrid...
Biological Purity | Potency Assays
Biological purity and potency assays are procedures used by laboratories studying medicine, pharmacology, or other biological process, to assess or measure the presence of a substance, referred to as an analyte, whether it be a drug, a cell, or another organism....
Regulation of Biological Products and Biopharmaceutical Products
Biological products comprise a wide array of products, all of which are regulated in the US by FDA's CBER (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) division and include regulation of blood, blood components, bioassays biosmiliars, biobetters, and...
Potency Testing of Biopharmaceuticals
Potency testing is a term used to describe the process of measuring biological activity in a product. Many methods exist to determine the potency of a biopharmaceutical such as ligand and receptor binding assays, cell culture-based assays, and animal-based assays....
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From safety culture to a culture of safety, protecting workers from harm is...
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