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FEATURED ARTICLES
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Linear Scalability In Turbulent‐Jet Mixing For Nanoparticle Processing
Understand how turbulent-jet mixing ensures predictable and reproducible nanoparticle size and uniformity across all scales, accelerating development and regulatory readiness.
WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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Supporting Complex Manufacturing For Liquid And Lyophilized Drug Products
Aseptic fill and finish operations gain efficiency and precision with modular isolator technology, inline weight checks, and lyophilization, which are ideal for mRNA-LNPs and other sensitive modalities.
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How Lipid Nanoparticles Enable Next-Gen Delivery
Cell therapy’s future depends on smarter gene delivery. Learn how lipid nanoparticles offer a scalable, cell-friendly alternative to electroporation and viral vectors for manufacturing efficiency.
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Virus Reduction And Impurity Removal
Examine a DOE-based study that reveals how buffer conditions impact virus and impurity clearance using a mixed-mode resin, as well as gain practical guidance for optimizing downstream purification.
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High Purity And Recovery With Adjustable Selectivity In Downstream Purification Processes
Discover a resin that enables high-yield purification of complex biomolecules, as well as supports fast flow rates, consistent recovery, and scalable performance for downstream processing.
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Overcoming Excipient Risks And Challenges For Parenteral Formulations
Excipients are essential to parenteral formulations, which help protect APIs, enhance stability, and ensure safety. Learn how strategic excipient selection can optimize drug performance and patient outcomes.
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Stabilization Of RNA-Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles By Lyophilization
Discover how lyophilization enhances RNA-based therapeutics by enabling storage at higher temperatures, which simplifies cold-chain logistics while preserving nanoparticle integrity and biological activity.
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Formulation
Formulation in bioresearch is directly associated with pharmaceutical research and development. It is the practice of combining different chemical substances that include the active medical drug. This combination of drug and chemicals is tweaked until they have a final medicinal formulation that can be tested and receive final approval for large-scale market use.
The object of pre-formulation and formulation is to develop a stable preparation of a specific drug that is acceptable for human consumption. All drugs, by necessity, contain other chemicals. In order to put a drug into a capsule or tablet form it requires a variety of substances other than the drug itself. Formulation is needed to ensure that the drug will work when combined with these other substances.
It may surprise you to know that most formulations are not complete until after Phase III clinical trials are in progress or completed. All the early trials test drug stability, and drug load, which is the ratio of active drug to the total content of the actual dose.
Formulation studies address a variety of issues includinggrain size, pH (acidic or alkaline), solubility, and polymorphism (the ability of a drug to exist in more than one form like liquid and capsule). Other items formulation addresses is taste, appearance, tablet hardness and tablet or capsule disintegration.
Another aspect of formulation is testing how humidity, temperature, oxidation, ultraviolet light or visible light affects the formulation. The formula must be stable and not degrade under all of the different environmental factors.
Formulation involves a lot of experimenting with different blends of materials and drugs, but is absolutely crucial for the development of effective, safe, stable, oral drugs, and topical ointments.