All Health articles – Page 28
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Feature
Cuba: socialism, cigars and biotech
Nina Notman learns how biotechnology could potentially overtake cigars as Cuba’s most famous export
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Article
Is industry ready for the serialisation shake-up?
The regulation few outside of pharma have heard about
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Article
Five innovative technologies for health
How do healthcare products get from academic or start-up labs to the clinic? With a little help from places like the Centre for Process Innovation
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Article
Driving pharmaceutical innovation
Making drugs is neither easy nor cheap – but catalysts, flow chemistry and a knowledge of intermolecular interactions can help
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Article
Dissolving insoluble drugs
How spray drying can help with solubility and bioavailability challenges in drug development
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Article
Platinum metal complexes in medicine
The history of cisplatin, the drug that is still the gold – or should that be platinum? – standard in cancer drugs
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Article
Biosensors, wearables and virtual biotech
In a world that is racing ahead with new technologies, has the drug development process distanced itself from the patients it ultimately provides for?
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Article
Harnessing electronic display technology in bioimaging
Less toxic than quantum dots, can conjugated polymer nanoparticles revolutionise bioimaging?
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Article
Why biocatalysis is so on trend
Biocatalysis has come a long way from just beer – there’s an enzyme for nearly everything
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Article
The ever-increasing attraction of biologics
Biologics promise targeted treatments for a range of conditions – if we can overcome the technological challenges
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Article
Pharma and academia: a recipe for success
More big pharmaceutical companies are collaborating with universities
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Feature
The chemistry of the microbiome
Our gut bacteria are carrying out chemistry on our behalf, but without us knowing much about it. Now, scientists are starting to examine their enzymes
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Research
Tofu works as tissue-engineering scaffold
Garlic, ginger and chilli swapped for fibroblast cells
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Research
American Civil War era tea yields modern day medicine
Macrocyclisation strategy key to obtaining long known alkaloid with untapped potential
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News
English health service could recover £500m in drug costs from Pfizer
NHS England may have paid over the odds for pain drug whose patent has now been revoked
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News
Tracker to name and shame for failure to report clinical trial results
Developers of online tool hope that it will improve accountability
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News
FDA approves new way to make medical imaging isotope
System will be the US’s first domestic source of molybdenum-99 for 30 years
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Opinion
When evidence isn’t enough
The UK debate over folic acid highlights science’s role in public health ethics
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News
Illegal antibiotic combinations threaten efforts to battle antimicrobial resistance
Unapproved formulations make up two-thirds of combination therapies sold in India
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Feature
Artificial blood
Nina Notman reports on progress towards products that can, when necessary, replace donor red blood cells