New research suggests that deuteration, the replacement of hydrogen atoms with heavier forms, can alter an API's crystallisation properties and help drugmakers make better more effective drugs.
US physicists have built the world's most sensitive 'nanomechanical mass spectrometer' that can accurately determine the mass of objects lighter than a single gold atom.
Syft Technologies of New Zealand released the latest generation of
Selected Ion Flow Tube-Mass Spectrometry (SIFT) instrumentation at
Pittcon 2008 for the analysis of very low levels of organic
compounds in air (detection limits as...
Dissolved charged particles frequently form the waste product of
both industrial and biological processes, but while it has been
easy to remove positive ions (cations) without disturbing the
surrounding solution, it has been significantly...
The world's most powerful transmission electron microscope has been
turned on in the US, with single-atom resolution bringing within
reach the ability to analyse chemicals simply by looking at them.
Microscopy expert, Carl Zeiss has shipped the world's first
commercial helium ion microscope that promises to allow researchers
to view objects at higher resolutions than ever before.
Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals is buying a commercial-scale
radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Texas for $3m as it
moves towards increasing its manufacturing in the increasingly
profitable pharmaceutical area.
A new weighing system developed by BOC Edwards Pharmaceutical
systems can be used in a pharmaceutical filling line but does not
come into contact with the weighed materials.
A team of researchers in the US has developed a new way of using
laser spectroscopy to detect the energy level of atoms in a gas,
which could have applications in the analysis and synthesis of
chemicals.