2017-04-16 12:30
Infectious diarrhea, a common disease of children, is responsible for over 2 million infant deaths annually in developing counties alone. A primary cause of this and other devastating condit… Read More
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2017-04-15 12:30
The following may be of interest to readers:An analytical procedure must be demonstrated to be fit for its intended purpose. It is useful to consider the entire lifecycle of an analytical pr… Read More
2017-04-14 12:30
The purpose of this free eBook is to share humidity theory, tools and practical examples of how measuring humidity, moisture and dew point brings value to different manufacturing processes.T… Read More
2017-04-12 14:28
The list of useful links to science and regulatory organizations on the site has been updated. Please check through, there will be something of interest.A3P (pharmaceutical industry, bi… Read More
2017-04-10 19:26
Tim Sandle has written a new article on the decontamination of cleanrooms and laboratories by gassing systems:Cleanrooms, laboratory areas, isolators and biosafety workspaces (microbiologica… Read More
2017-04-09 12:00
Inflammatory bowel disease refers to a set of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine. Examples include Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In the U.S. alone s… Read More
2017-04-08 13:00
Central to the development of tissue models that can better predict how humans respond to infection is the understanding that cells and tissues in our bodies function in a three-dimensional… Read More
2017-04-07 12:30
Phages are viruses that kill bacteria but are otherwise harmless. A major advantage is that phages only target the harmful bacteria, so there are less side of the effects often associated wi… Read More
2017-04-06 12:30
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology used a combination of imaging and up to 100,000 measurements of where different parts of the DNA are… Read More
2017-04-05 13:00
In a new report, researchers describe how inflammation can go unchecked in the absence of a certain inhibitor called NLRP12, adding that beneficial bacteria may be the key to helping to reve… Read More
2017-04-04 13:00
The EDQM will hold an international symposium on 10-11 October 2017 in Strasbourg (France) to present and discuss recent achievements, as well as future perspectives, of the Ph. Eur. in the… Read More
2017-04-02 12:30
ISO 31000:2009 on risk management is intended for people who create and protect value in an organization by managing risks, making decisions, setting and achieving objectives and improving p… Read More
2017-04-01 12:30
Within the human digestive tract, there are trillions of bacteria, and these communities contain hundreds or even thousands of species. The makeup of those populations can vary greatly from… Read More
2017-03-31 12:00
On November 23, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a revised draft guidance for Submission of Quality Metrics Data. The guidance includes significant changes to the earli… Read More
2017-03-30 20:22
Maik Jornitz, President, G-Con, has written an interesting white paper on cleanroom construction materials.The introduction reads:Reducing the cost of goods sold has become a focus of pharma… Read More
2017-03-30 12:30
Despite the small population of each rare species in a microbial community, such species may number as much as several hundred within a community, such that the so-called "rare biosphere" ma… Read More
2017-03-29 12:30
While any antimicrobial resistance is concerning, the increasing incidence of antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria has become a particular problem as strains resistant to multiple ant… Read More
2017-03-28 12:00
Tim Sandle has won the Journal of GXP Compliance Author of the Year award. This was for the following papers submitted to the journal during 2016:“Control of WFI and Clean Steam S… Read More
2017-03-27 12:30
Bioscience Technology has issued a guide on data integrity, which is free to download.The science site states: “With the advances of technology and the migration of data onto digital p… Read More
2017-03-26 13:00
The world's largest lizard, Komodo dragons live on five small islands in Indonesia. The saliva of these creatures contains at least 57 species of bacteria, which are believed to contribute t… Read More
2017-03-25 14:00
Genes from a common bacterium can be harnessed to sterilize male insects, a tool that can potentially control populations of both disease-bearing mosquitoes and agricultural pests, researche… Read More
2017-03-24 14:00
Mammalian cells are optimally adapted to gravity. But what happens in the microgravity environment of space if the earth's pull disappears? Previously, many experiments exhibited cell change… Read More
2017-03-23 13:30
A new treatment for tuberculosis (TB) is set to be developed using compounds derived from bacteria that live in soil -- according an international collaboration of researchers, including the… Read More
2017-03-22 13:30
College students must know how to maintain their body healthily and strong. Their food diet should be well-planned, and they should take their food in time. Eating is compulsory for all of u… Read More
2017-03-21 13:30
TB Alliance and the broader TB community urge that the World Health Organization (WHO) add Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the critical group within the list of drug-resistant bacteria identif… Read More
2017-03-20 13:30
In recognition of National Poison Prevention Week (March 19-25), the National Capital Poison Center urges all parents to take 2 minutes to learn how to prevent and respond to a poison emerge… Read More
2017-03-19 18:04
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is pretty common among men with almost half of men between the ages 40 to 70 have some kind of erectile problems. The Journal of the American Medical Associat… Read More
2017-03-19 14:00
Professor Robert Sinclair at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Professor Dennis Bamford and Dr. Janne Ravantti from the University of Helsinki ha… Read More
2017-03-18 13:30
MIT chemical engineers have designed a novel genetic switch that allows them to dramatically boost bacteria's production of useful chemicals by shutting down competing metabolic pathways in… Read More
2017-03-17 13:00
Numerous human diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes and autism spectrum disorders have been linked to abnormal gut microbial communities, or microbiomes, but an open ques… Read More
2017-03-16 13:30
Some commonly used drugs that combat aches and pains, fever, and inflammation are also thought to have the ability to kill bacteria. New research appearing online on March 13 in the Cell Pre… Read More
2017-03-15 13:30
The discovery, made possible through a revolutionary method used to color bacterial cell walls developed at IU, is an important step forward in research on bacterial growth and could inform… Read More
2017-03-14 13:30
The human gut is home to some 100 trillion bacteria, comprising between 250 and 500 species. This astounding array of organisms, collectively known as the gut microbiome, is a powerful regul… Read More
2017-03-13 14:00
Antibiotic resistance is a major and growing problem worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the wor… Read More
2017-03-13 13:30
Scott Gottlieb is President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the agency, according to Bloomberg sources at the White House.Gottlieb, a former deputy commissioner of the FDA under George W… Read More
2017-03-09 21:13
A new website of interest called Recall Report:A recall occurs when a medication or product is faulty or has side effects so severe that it becomes potentially dangerous to human health. Rec… Read More
2017-03-08 14:00
Here is part 2 of our how to gown properly when entering cleanrooms videos.Practical workshop on good cleanroom gowning from Simon Fiala – Key Account Manager, COMPREI Reinraum. This f… Read More
2017-03-07 20:14
Effective gowning is an important of contamination control, given that people are the biggest source of contamination in pharmaceutical facilities. To aid good gowning, we're providing two v… Read More
2017-03-06 13:00
There are hundreds of different investigational drugs that are in various phases of clinical trials all over the world. Until they’ve been cleared to be marketed to the public, they a… Read More
2017-03-05 13:30
Scientists have found more evidence that vitamin B12, a substance produced by only a few organisms but needed by nearly all of them, wields great power in the microbial world. The findings l… Read More
2017-03-04 14:00
The hazards involved in compressed gas use run the gamut from oxygen displacement (inert gas use), fires, explosions, and toxic exposures to the physical hazards of high pressurization. So i… Read More
2017-03-03 22:28
A guest post By Helen Vector.Detox and detoxification have become the latest buzzwords in the diet industry fixated with convincing people (mostly women) that they have found a quick fix tha… Read More
2017-03-03 13:30
A new, easy-to-adapt and inexpensive analytical procedure has been developed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The main rol… Read More
2017-03-02 19:58
Important news for those who work in organizations that regularly receive both U.S. FDA and European medicines agency inspectors. This has been a long time coming...a new transatlantic agree… Read More
2017-03-02 14:00
Most modern organisms require specific conditions to survive: liquid water, oxygen, moderate temperatures, stable aboveground air pressure, and low-level radiation exposure. However, not all… Read More
2017-03-01 14:00
Using a natural catalyst from bacteria for inspiration, researchers have now reported the fastest synthetic catalysts to date for hydrogen production-- producing 45 million hydrogen molecule… Read More
2017-02-28 14:00
Viruses have been found to communicate with one another, leaving short “posts” for kin and descendants. The messages help the viruses reading them decide how to proceed with the… Read More
2017-02-27 14:00
A new book of interest 'Clean Room Technology in ART Clinics: A Practical Guide', edited by Sandro C. Esteves, Alex C. Varghese, Kathryn C. Worrilow.Regulatory agencies worldwide have issued… Read More
2017-02-26 14:00
Before infecting humans, tick-borne bacteria or viruses first have to get past a tick's defenses to colonize it. How this occurs is not well understood. To investigate, Yale researchers stud… Read More
2017-02-25 14:00
The use of airlocks is a principle that is well-established in the design of cGMP facilities. Despite the apparent simplicity of inserting small rooms into the plan of a pharmaceutical manuf… Read More
2017-02-24 14:00
Pharmaceutical on-line has published a useful overview of FDA warning letters issued in 2016. This comes from Barbara Unger, Unger Consulting Inc.Here are the headline trends:The number of d… Read More
2017-02-23 13:30
Century Refrigeration announces that it designs custom, advanced cooling systems for blood product storage applications, including blood banks and laboratories. The customized nature of the… Read More
2017-02-22 21:39
WHAT: Live-streamed panel discussion and Q&A with expert MSF medical and operations staffWHEN: Thursday, February 23, 8 p.m. Eastern Time (recording will be archived online here) WHERE:… Read More
2017-02-22 13:30
Each animal species hosts its own, unique community of microbes that can significantly improve its health and fitness. This is the implication of a laboratory study that investigated four di… Read More
2017-02-21 13:30
Aseptic blow-fill-seal (B/F/S) systems for the processing of pharmaceutical liquids have experienced rapid and growing acceptance by the pharmaceutical industry over the past 20 years. This… Read More
2017-02-20 13:30
Tim Sandle has written an overview of the European approach to disinfectant testing for the A3P publication La Vague.Here is the introduction:Contamination control is of great importance to… Read More
2017-02-19 14:00
As cases of Zika virus increase there is considerable investigation and research into the virus. One area being looked at for clues is yellow fever virus. A second area involves the use of m… Read More
2017-02-18 13:30
There is never a better time than now (excuse the cliche) to evaluate your laboratory safety procedures. For larger facilities, this can be a daunting task but necessary nonetheless. Regardl… Read More
2017-02-17 14:00
The human large bowel ("gut") is colonised by an extremely dense population of bacteria, collectively termed the microbiota or "gut flora."Recent research indicates that the microbiota is im… Read More
2017-02-16 22:27
Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. These Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria depend greatly on their host for survival - they have… Read More
2017-02-16 14:00
A team of scientists led by Ronald Harty, a professor of pathobiology and microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, has identified a mechanism that appe… Read More
2017-02-15 13:00
EU directive integrates Council of Europe Good Practice Guidelines for blood establishmentsGood Practice Guidelines have been prepared through co-operation between the European Directorate f… Read More
2017-02-13 13:00
A new medical article of interest. looking at the effects of calcium ion depletion on the human cell.The abstract reads:Given the importance of calcium for good functioning of the body and k… Read More
2017-02-12 13:00
Areas subject to air pollution contain a growing concentration of bacteria that are resistant to antimicrobials, according to a new study. Consequently, air movement may provide a new ways f… Read More
2017-02-11 14:00
Scientists studying microbiomes have created a framework for predicting how the composition of these complex microbial communities may respond to changing conditions.The review study, led by… Read More
2017-02-10 13:00
Researchers at Washington State University have discovered a new type of cooperative photosynthesis that could be used in engineering microbial communities for waste treatment and bioenergy… Read More
2017-02-09 13:30
Hyo-Jick Choi, a professor in the University of Alberta Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, noticed that many people wear a simple surgical-style mask for protection during out… Read More
2017-02-08 13:00
William Storage has written an interesting article on risk assessment. Here’s a quote from the thought provoking article: “Obvious as those may seem, defining risk in terms of ha… Read More
2017-02-07 13:30
Are soil organisms still risky after a year in the sun? International researchers placed trays of soil in and around sea containers, as well as in cupboards, to count the creatures in them e… Read More
2017-02-06 14:00
A new book of interest has been published,m titled "Disinfectants: Properties, Applications and Effectiveness." The book is edited by Ana Sofia Cardoso, Cristina Maria Martins Almeida, Telma… Read More
2017-02-05 14:00
Staphylococcus aureus(S. aureus) and methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) can cause difficult-to-treat infections due to their antibiotic resistance. Approximately 90,000 people are affect… Read More
2017-02-04 14:00
To explore how a microbiome adapts to a new environment, University of Minnesota researcher Dan Knights and his colleagues turned their attention to nonhuman primates. According to Bioscienc… Read More
2017-02-03 13:30
Scientists have used pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues in a Petri dish that produce acid and digestive enzymes. They grew tissues from the stomach's corpus/fundus regi… Read More
2017-02-02 13:00
Zika virus has infected hundreds of thousands of people around the world, mostly in the Americas. In the United States and its territories, more than 38,000 Zika cases have been reported so… Read More
2017-02-01 14:00
Modern medicine and treatments for bacterial infections and cancer have significantly increased life spans and improved quality-of-life. However, many drugs eventually fail because of the ou… Read More
2017-01-31 13:00
Bacteria that are susceptible to antibiotics can survive when enough resistant cells around them are expressing an antibiotic-deactivating factor. This new take on how the microbial context… Read More
2017-01-30 13:30
Antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is a growing global challenge. Danish researchers have now discovered that bacteria use a code language to avoid being controlled. Understanding… Read More
2017-01-29 20:33
Big data and predictive analytics are quickly changing the way most industries do business. By collecting all industry-related data, even the little pieces of data that might seem insignific… Read More
2017-01-29 13:30
A team led by Dr. Nathan H. Lents of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), sampled bacteria from the ear and nasal canals of 21 cadavers through sever… Read More
2017-01-28 14:00
Scientists around the world are working hard to win the battle against multi-resistant bacteria. A new publication from the BASP Centre, University of Copenhagen now presents how even sensit… Read More
2017-01-27 13:30
Soil bacteria use the extensively branched, thread-like structures of fungi to move around and access new food sources. In a new study, researchers have been able to demonstrate that these s… Read More
2017-01-25 18:18
Eight people, who shared the common factor of working at different rat-breeding facilities in two different U.S. states and who contracted Seoul virus, most likely contracted the virus from… Read More
2017-01-25 14:00
The recent adoption at its 156th session of the following texts demonstrates the Commission’s commitment to the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal tests in the quality con… Read More
2017-01-24 13:00
A useful book has been published - 'Assuring Data Integrity for Life Sciences' - edited by Siegfried Schmitt.This new book provides a truly global perspective on data integrity and the solut… Read More
2017-01-23 13:00
Tim Sandle has traced the history ofcleanrooms in two part feature. Part 1 covers the early concept of clean spaces, as required for surgery, and traces these to developments immediately pos… Read More
2017-01-22 13:30
A BBC radio program about the history of microbiology is available for download as an mp3:Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of microbiology. We have more microbes in our bodies tha… Read More
2017-01-21 13:30
Researchers find a bacterium 1,000 feet underground (called Paenibacillus) that is resistant to 18 different antibiotics and uses identical methods of defense as similar species found in soi… Read More
2017-01-19 14:00
The European Medicines Agency has released a “Concept paper on Good Manufacturing Practice and Marketing Authorisation Holders.” The current EU Guide to GMP refers in several pla… Read More
2017-01-18 14:00
A team of UCLA researchers has developed an automated diagnostic test reader for antimicrobial resistance using a smartphone. The technology could lead to routine testing for antimicrobial s… Read More
2017-01-17 12:00
The latest in the series from Masden and Moldenhauer is available, covering such key topics asRegulatory changes relative to ISO 14644, Parts 1 and 2Updates to ISO 11737-1Risks of spores inc… Read More
2017-01-16 20:37
According to Public Health England’s Annual Flu Report, there have been more than three million deaths in the UK since 2006 from flu. Nick Hawkins, Managing Director atEverbridge EMEA… Read More
2017-01-16 13:00
Data integrity refers to maintaining and assuring the accuracy and consistency of data over its entire life-cycle, and is a critical aspect to the design, implementation and usage of any sys… Read More
2017-01-15 14:00
To understand and to characterize the range of different bacteria the scientists used DNA sequencing to identify the set of bacteria contained within breast milk, according to a research bri… Read More
2017-01-14 13:30
Sometimes it's the smallest details that have the biggest impact on pharmaceutical performance. That's certainly true when it comes down to the properties of particles and their impact on ph… Read More
2017-01-13 22:09
Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. These Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria depend greatly on their host for survival - they have… Read More
2017-01-13 13:30
IVT Network remembers Scott Sutton, a premier microbiologist, author, IVT Network Advisory Board Member, friend and mentor to many, By Jeanne MoldenhauerDr. Sutton worked at Bausch and Lomb… Read More
2017-01-12 14:00
Human error is the cause of most pharmaceutical manufacturing failures, according to Martin Boisvert. The traditional approach has been to pass as much of the operation as possible on to mac… Read More
2017-01-11 13:30
Scientists have found important antibodies in the breast milk of an HIV infected mother which can protect the mother’s baby from HIV. This could lead to the development of a new vaccin… Read More
2017-01-10 14:00
The following Chapters of the PIC/S GMP Guide have been revised:Chapter 1 on “Quality Management” (which has become “Pharmaceutical Quality Systems”);Chapter 2 on &ld&hell…Read More
2017-01-10 11:12
Pharmig are hosting a one day meeting on cleanrooms and contamination control:16th February 2017 – Warwickshire (Near Birmingham International Airport)Attend and receive FREE Pharmigs… Read More
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