News tagged with active pharmaceutical ingredients

Continuous drug manufacturing offers speed, lower costs

Traditional drug manufacturing is a time-consuming process. Active pharmaceutical ingredients are synthesized in a chemical manufacturing plant and then shipped to another site, where they are converted into ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NMR sheds new light on polymorphic forms in pharmaceutical compounds

Scientists at the University of Warwick have used state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to shed new light on how pharmaceutical molecules pack together in the solid state.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists learn how horseweed shrugs off herbicide

As everyone knows, the pharmaceutical industry is struggling to deal with bacteria that have become resistant to common antibiotics. Less well known is the similar struggle in agribusiness to deal with weeds ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bathing and showering: Underappreciated sources of water pollution from medicines

That bracing morning shower and soothing bedtime soak in the tub are potentially important but until now unrecognized sources of the hormones, antibiotics, and other pharmaceuticals that pollute the environment, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Tons of released drugs taint US water

(AP) -- U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water - contamination the federal government ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2