New life-saving drugs, vaccines, and therapies in development by biopharmaceutical industries find an increasingly significant place in the healthcare setting. In relation to the biopharmaceuticals, large-scale manufacturing steps and other developmental processes all comprise various forms of quality control. Indeed, ensuring homogeneity, efficiency, and safety makes the manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals face huge challenges. However, some of these challenges can be ...

Imagine a life-saving medicine that is grown much like any other crop. This is not a science fiction fantasy, but the reality of transgenic plants for pharmaceuticals, also known as molecular pharming. This technology uses genetically modified plants to produce valuable therapeutic proteins, including vaccines, antibodies, and hormones. This article explores the promise of this technology, the challenges it faces, ...

Imagine a world wherein certain diseases previously considered incurable are indeed treatable due to some radical science. And it involves biopharmaceuticals at the forefront of this change in medical science. But what is this thing called a biopharmaceutical, better known as a biologic? And how will these revolutionary new drugs change the paradigm of drug development? So, let’s do a ...