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    18 June 2015

    Soft Gelatin Capsules (Softgels)

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    ABOUT AUTHORS:
    Abhishek Raj
    Deputy Manager (R&D)
    Quest Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd, Chhata Pipara, Bara, Birgunj, Nepal.
    abhishekraj4@gmail.com

    Introduction
    A softgel or soft gelatin capsule is a solid capsule (outer shell) surrounding a liquid or semi-solid center (inner fill). An active ingredient can be incorporated into the outer shell, the inner fill, or both. They are oral dosage form for medicine similar to capsules. Softgel shells are a combination of gelatin, water, opacifier and a plasticizer such as glycerin and/or sorbitol(s).

  • 11 June 2015
    Budding entrepreneurs make most of this time: Consumers are taking novel ideas and comfort providing solutions hand to hand

    Editorial, May 2015 issue

  • 10 June 2015
    Enzyme in Cosmetics

    ABOUT AUTHOR:
    Vinay Kumar Singh
    General Manager-Technical,
    Mikasa Cosmetics Limited,
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat
    vinay.s@mikasacosmetics.com

    Enzyme is a substance produced by a living organism, which act as a Catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction. These are effective cellular catalysts responsible for controlling thousands of reactions in the cell. At any given moment, all of the work being done inside any cell is being done by enzymes.

  • 19 May 2015
    FDA DRUG APPROVAL PROCESS: A CHALLENGING TASK

    The FDA is gatekeeper for access to new drugs. As such, it gets a lot of scrutiny time. Different peoples have different opinions. There are those who claim that the FDA is too lenient in its decision making process and that it unleashes unproven new drugs on an unsuspecting public that presumes any medicine approved is safe and efficacious. Others will assail the FDA as being far too conservative and say that the agency is unnecessarily delaying access to new life-saving drugs because of its bureaucracy.

  • 25 April 2015
    Rapidly Changing Equations in Topical Pain Management Market

    Editorial, Apr 2015 issue

    “ Why this particular segment of FMCG or OTC will surge, can be understood from the fact that people want immediate relief from pain, come what may, and this lead to makeover of traditional wide mouth bottle into ointment or spray type of container or dosage form

  • 25 April 2015
    HOMEGROWN DRUG COMPANIES FACING HEAT IN THE US MARKET

    “ Domestic drug firms are facing a lot of regulatory issues in the US market with the US health regulator pulling them up for non-compliance of manufacturing norms.

  • 2 April 2015
    FERMENTATION COSMETICS

    ABOUT AUTHOR:
    Vinay Kumar Singh
    General Manager-Technical,
    Mikasa Cosmetics Limited,
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat
    vinay.s@mikasacosmetics.com

    Before refrigerators, Korea developed fermentation techniques that enable food to be stored safely for long periods. Many traditional medicines and cosmetics used by women at the royal court used similar knowhow. With interest growing in traditions of the past, there are now more cosmetics made using old techniques.

    The latest trend in Cosmetics particularly Skin Care is fermented beauty products. This concept, originated in Korea, basically involves fermentation of natural ingredients like black tea, ginseng, seaweed, bamboo sap extract, red clove flower, hibiscus, snow lotus and various herbs and flowers.

  • 2 April 2015
    Improvement in drug manufacturing standards: an initiative of government of India

    Editorial, Mar 2015 issue

    “ Globalization of the pharmaceutical industry has the potential to rapidly spread poor-quality medicines worldwide. This is due to lack of expertise, poor manufacturing practices. It influence public

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  • 1 April 2015
    ANTIBIOTIC POISONING AND FOOD POISONING THROUGH CHICKEN

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    ABOUT AUTHOR
    Suman Pattanayak
    Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis,
    Vijaya Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences for Women,
    Enikepadu, Vijayawada, AP, India
    suman6982@gmail.com

    Chicken is one of the most popular foods. There can’t be many people who do not enjoy chicken curry, chicken pakoda, roast chicken, stew or barbecued chicken on a Sunday. This includes children as well as adults who both enjoy the taste and versatility of chicken. Since the 1940s, antibiotics have played a critical role in protecting the public’s health, and are responsible for saving millions of human lives. About 90% of antibiotics produced in the world are given to farm animals. The use of low doses of antibiotics by the modern food animal industry is responsible for drug-resistant bacteria emerging on farms which reach the general population through human or animal carriers, and through the food consumers eat. The chicken is one of the worst offenders when it comes to food poisoning. Many of us have either experienced this first hand or know someone who has suffered from this nasty illness.

  • 30 March 2015
    BREAKTHROUGHS IN EPIGENETICS

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    ABOUT AUTHORS:
    Shashi Shekhar Anand, Navgeet, Balraj Singh Gill*
    Centre for Biosciences,
    School of Basic and Applied Sciences,
    Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India
    gillsinghbalraj@gmail.com

    ABSTRACT
    The word ‘epigenetic’ was first coined by Conrad Waddington in 1946. It deals with functionally relevant modifications to the genome that do not include a change in the nucleotide sequence. Till date observation has focused on the functions of genome sequences and how their regulation occurs. The emerging epigenetic changes and the interactions between cis-acting elements with protein factors  plays a central role in gene regulation as well as give insight to various diseases. To evaluate the crosstalk of DNA and protein by taking account of the whole genome, one new evolving technique which is called as ChIP-chip, works on the principle of combining chromatin immunoprecipitation with microarray. ChIP-chip has been recently used in basic biological studies and may be improved further and can be useful for other to aspects, like human diseases. Now a days large amount of discoveries by ChIP-chip and other high-throughput techniques like this   may be connected with evolving bioinformatics to add to our knowledge of life and diseases.

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