Practical Guide to Pharmaceutical Formulation

This article continues from an earlier one discussing the cleaning of formulation labware.  Part 1 in this series is entitled “Glassware Cleaning: The most argued over topic for all formulations”.  View part 1 here.     We left off in our last article on the question of how to know if your labware is really clean.  What experimental techniques and […]

How difficult is it for a needle-free injection to reach the intramuscular level? I recently answered this question on Quora, but I thought that this topic warranted further discussion on this blog for  seasoned professionals.  Drug transport is quite complicated, and is many times misunderstood.     I’ve always thought that this happens because most of the standard mass transport […]

All beginning scientists start realize early on that scientists can be an argumentative bunch!  We love to argue!  And what is the most argued over topic ever? … Glassware Cleaning!  Believe it or not, just asking how clean the glassware is can spark a heated, lengthy debate among scientists!  And since any modern lab isn’t using just glass anymore but […]

Continuing from an earlier post (if you haven’t read the earlier post, it can be found here) Part 2: The Whole is More Than the Sum of the Parts So in the last post, I used Sodium Chloride (NaCl) in an example of scare tactics.  Some of the features of the elements sodium and chlorine (chloride) are pretty scary, but […]

I recently found a fantastic representation of the periodic table!  It shows one of the main useful properties for each element of the periodic table.  Please see the image below and check out the site that this came from.   Image 1   I think that this fits in well with a topic that will be frequently discussed in this […]

To open this up for a discussion of advanced formulation topics and problems, I’d like to know what everyone is interested in.  Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.  

To start off with, I will admit something that I almost never here seasoned scientists say: “I was a beginner once, too.”  But I will go even farther than that; I will say that: “I once didn’t know what I was doing.”  Why?  Because formulation science is confusing!   Any time we are combining ingredients in a new way, they […]

Part 1: What is a Formulation? Audience: Everyone I recently saw the below image online, and it really stuck with me.  Please view it below and know that I do not condone these views; however, they are worth serious discussion. Image 1 Pretty scary, right? How about this one (see below)?  This is all in your food!  Again, I do […]