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Silicon Technology and Pharmaceutics by Professor Leigh T. Canham, Dr Roghieh S. Saffie, Stephen E. Connor and Dr Roger Aston The recent discovery that, following nanostructuring, silicon can be rendered biocompatible and biodegradable has far reaching and profound long-term implications for the pharmaceutical industry and, indeed, medicine as a whole. Nanostructure science and technology is […]

The lab on a chip and its impact on drug discovery by Dr Simon Cowen and Dr Coulton Legge Few technology developments have had as profound an effect on society as the invention of the microchip integrated circuit in the 1960s. Since then, the power of electronic circuits has increased while their cost in real […]

Protein Therapeutics – New ladders up the fruit tree By Dr Richard AG Smith Therapeutic proteins are often regarded as too technologically demanding, too costly, too restricted in routes or duration of administration or – in an era of massive opportunity provided by high throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry and genomics – simply passe. This article […]