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05.27.25 -- Proper Care And Handling Of Coupons Used For Swab And Rinse Recovery Studies For Total Organic Carbon Analysis
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05.27.25 -- Proper Care And Handling Of Coupons Used For Swab And Rinse Recovery Studies For Total Organic Carbon Analysis
Surrogate surfaces, or “coupons”, are used to simulate pharmaceutical manufacturing surfaces or medical devices for the performance of swab and rinse recovery studies. Experts from The Center for Pharmaceutical Cleaning Innovation provide insights for proper care and handling.
05.22.25 -- Proper Care And Handling Of Coupons Used For Swab And Rinse Recovery Studies For Total Organic Carbon Analysis
The PDA Miniverse: Medical Devices, Combination Products and Connected Health Conference 2025 is coming to Indianapolis, IN on 25-26 June 2025. We have curated top thought leadership presentations, a group of impressive solution providers, and a highly networked experience designed to maximize your time and investment. As a community with a shared purpose, we will address industry trends that are shaping the health tech landscape.
05.15.25 -- Smart Drug Delivery Systems: Emerging Market Trends
Get the latest industry news and expert insights delivered straight to your inbox! Newsletter | May 15, 2025 According to new market research, the global smart drug delivery systems market reached $12 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 17% from 2025 to 2034.
Proper Care And Handling Of Coupons Used For Swab And Rinse Recovery Studies For Total Organic Carbon Analysis
By Jayen Diyora, Max Chen, Sarthak Pandey, and Andrew Walsh Part Of The Cleaning Validation For The 21st Century Series Surrogate surfaces, or “coupons” as they are commonly called, have been widely used for many years to simulate pharmaceutical manufacturing surfaces or medical devices for the performance of swab and rinse recovery studies. Today, these coupons are also used for cleanability testing, disinfectant testing, and visual inspection qualification programs.
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By Jayen Diyora, Max Chen, Sarthak Pandey, and Andrew Walsh Part Of The Cleaning Validation For The 21st Century Series Surrogate surfaces, or “coupons” as they are commonly called, have been widely used for many years to simulate pharmaceutical manufacturing surfaces or medical devices for the performance of swab and rinse recovery studies. Today, these coupons are also used for cleanability testing, disinfectant testing, and visual inspection qualification programs.
Phantom Auto, a Remote Driving Startup, Announces Closure – TechGround
Phantom Auto Shutting Down After Failed Funding Attempt Phantom Auto, a remote driving startup that emerged onto the scene seven years ago with the excitement of autonomous vehicle technology, is now facing closure. According to sources familiar with the situation, the company was unable to secure new funding, leading to its ultimate demise.
Alan Gratz Writes About Pearl Harbor
Alan Gratz is the bestselling author of books for young readers, including Allies and Ground Zero. I recently spoke with Gratz about his latest work of historical fiction. It’s called Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (Scholastic Press, February 6, 2024). Gratz visited the Chapel Hill Public Library in North Carolina to talk about his gripping new novel. It introduces readers to two teenage boys, Frank and Stanley, who live in Hawaii in the early 1940s.
Hexa startup studio seeks to forge partnerships with startups experiencing inadequate growth – TechGround
A successful startup studio, Hexa, recently announced its expansion beyond the studio model. After raising $22 million in funding just a few weeks ago, the Paris-based company is now partnering with later stage businesses that have already found product-market fit. The new program, Hexa Scale, is specifically targeting B2B companies that generate significant recurring revenue (typically between €1 to €10 million annually) but are struggling with growth.
Robust nuclease-dead S. aureus dCas9-mediated alpha-synuclein knockdown in substantia nigra in a humanized mouse model of Parkinson's disease
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD) is becoming increasingly prevalent due to an aging society, which places a substantial disease burden on patients and their families and an annual cost estimated at 52 billion dollars. However, no approved disease modulatory therapies that halt disease progression are available. Alpha-synuclein is a critical therapeutic target found in aggregated form in Lewy bodies which is the diagnostic hallmark of PD.
Why Is the Model UN So Popular?
Each year, an estimated 20,000 students in the United States participate in a program called Model United Nations, or MUN. Why is the program so popular? Students can gain valuable skills that will benefit them as they further their education and prepare for careers. In a MUN, young people assume the role of delegates from member countries in the United Nations. They work together to find solutions to global challenges. MUN programs are available to students of all levels around the world.
Meet Author Lamar Giles
Lamar Giles is the author of several acclaimed novels and short stories for young adults. His most recent novel is called The Getaway (Scholastic Press, 2022). I recently spoke with Giles via video. Born and raised in Virginia, he has had a passion for writing, he told me, since he was a child. “It was just fun to me,” he said. Growing up in Hopewell, Giles experienced poverty and racism. He recalled a frightening moment when he and his friends were stopped by police officers.
Chapel Hill Welcomes First Female Police Chief
On January 1, Celisa Lehew was sworn in as police chief of my hometown, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is the first woman ever to hold the position. After serving for 19 years in the Chapel Hill Police Department (CHPD), Lehew has been promoted to the top job. She replaces Chris Blue, who retired at the end of 2022. I recently spoke with Lehew at police headquarters. She has had a range of experiences in the department, she said, including in the investigations unit.
2023 Market Outlook: A Tale of Two Economies
The key question of 2023 — will there be a hard or soft-landing — depends very much on which economy one is looking at: the goods economy or the service economy. Will falling goods prices and ample manufacturing capacity “defeat” low unemployment and sticky wage inflation?
A Smart ETF Approach to Bond Markets Today
As we consider risks in the fixed income markets today, investors can turn to smart beta bond exchange traded fund strategies to better position for the unusual environment. In the recent webcast, Fixed Income is Back. Goldman Sachs Strategies for 2023, Alexandra Lawson, client portfolio manager, fixed income at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, argued that US yields they may peak as we approach the end of the current Fed hiking cycle.
Fixed Income is Back. Goldman Sachs Strategies for 2023.
After enjoying the smooth ride for many years, fixed income investors are suddenly faced with the risks associated with rising interest rates. Despite a rapidly changing fixed income environment, there is a path forward for bond investors. By using a rules-based investment approach typically employed in active portfolio construction, investors can improve risk-adjusted returns in the fixed income markets. In the upcoming webcast, Fixed Income is Back.
Why Income Investors Should Revisit Municipal Bond ETFs
Investors should consider the opportunities in the municipal bond market and turn to related exchange traded fund strategies to diversify back into this fixed income category. In the recent webcast, Munis Positioned to Shine in 2023, Michael Cohick, director of product management at VanEck; and Tamara Lowin, senior analyst, municipal bonds at VanEck, pointed out that municipal bonds now offer yields not seen in more than a decade, aside from a spike at the onset of the pandemic.
Munis Positioned to Shine in 2023
Municipal bonds now offer yields not seen in more than a decade (aside from a spike at the onset of the pandemic). Investors need to pay attention to these higher income levels as they consider portfolio positioning for 2023. In addition to attractive yields, supportive market dynamics, resilient credit quality, and important tax benefits make munis a key asset class to own.
Alternative ETF Strategies to Navigate the Challenges Ahead
As we consider the potential hurdles in the new year, investors can focus on alternative ETF strategies to potentially generate positive returns in flat or down-market conditions through a built-in downside risk mitigation methodology.
Managing New Challenges in 2023
After a tumultuous year that saw both equity and fixed income allocations receive headwinds from historic inflationary pressures and hawkish central bank policies, investors could continue to see new challenges in the coming year.
A High Dividend ETF Strategy for Today's Market Environment
Investors should consider the benefits of high dividend ETFs, the role dividend-oriented strategies can play in asset allocation, and the potential opportunity in equity income over the next decade.
Why You Should Consider Allocating to High Dividend Stocks in 2023
With bond yields now at levels not seen for years, the landscape for income products is as competitive as ever. High dividend stocks provide a complement to bonds that can diversify an investor’s yield-generating tool set with potential advantages over bonds.
Thematic ETFs to Tap Into Potential Growth Opportunities Ahead
Investors can look to travel industry and green hydrogen sector-related thematic ETFs to help enhance their portfolios with potential growth opportunities ahead. In the recent webcast, A Tale of Two Themes: Green Hydrogen and Travel, Sylvia Jablonski, CEO and CIO of Defiance ETFs, highlighted the rebound in the tourism and travel industries.
A Tale of Two Themes: Green Hydrogen and Travel
Featured Thematic strategies allow investors to access targeted segments of the broader marketplace, providing opportunities to focus on growing trends and cater their portfolios to areas of conviction.
An Active Municipal Bond ETF Approach for Fixed-Income Investors Seeking Quality
As we consider the macroeconomic outlook, fixed income investors can find opportunities in the municipal bond ETF market during these unprecedented times.
Navigating Today’s Dynamic Market Environment With Active Municipal Bond Fund Management
Municipal Bond investors are facing many challenges today from elevated inflation and a Federal Reserve well into a tightening cycle, to significantly negative total returns year to date. Investors may feel inclined to shy away from fixed income during these periods because of the recent drawdowns in total returns. However, there are several reasons why tax-exempt bonds should be part of your client’s portfolios.
Adapt to Market Changes With a Dynamic, Trend-Following ETF Strategy
Investors can utilize a dynamic trend-based exchange traded fund strategy to follow the price movement of an investment over time by using an unbiased approach to stay in or out of the markets.
Active Fixed-Income Answers to Tight Monetary Policy
The Federal Reserve has implemented an aggressive monetary policy tightening regime, throwing what should have been a safe-haven fixed income market into turmoil. As we re-adjust to this new rising rate environment, many investors will have to consider alternative strategies beyond the traditional core portfolio mix to adapt to the ongoing challenges. In the upcoming webcast, Active Fixed-Income Answers to Tight Monetary Policy, Andrew McCormick, head of fixed income at T.
How Trend-Following Can Help Your Investment Participate in Positive Trends and Minimize Losses
Instead of feeling left behind in an ever-changing market environment, investors can turn to an equity trend-following investment strategy that can adapt to the shifts as they come.
How Investors are Utilizing Factor-Based, Smart Beta ETF Strategies
As we consider the role factors can play in helping to diversify our investment portfolios, investors can turn to smart beta or factor-based exchange traded fund strategies to better navigate through volatility, mitigate concentration risk, and more.
Can Factor-Based Strategies Help Mitigate Volatility?
Factor investing can make it possible to target specific market attributes, which may help mitigate risk, particularly in unsteady markets.
Look to a Gold Miner ETF in a Persistent Inflationary Environment
As we consider the outlook for the gold market, exchange traded fund investors should take a look at the role of the asset class in a diversified portfolio, with a particular emphasis on gold royalty companies.
Active Bond ETF Solutions for Today's Tricky Market Conditions
As we consider the current bond market trends, investors can turn to actively managed bond ETF solutions that could be better suited in a more volatile environment. In the recent webcast, Active Fixed-Income Answers to Tight Monetary Policy, Andrew McCormick, head of fixed income at T. Rowe Price, helped paint the picture of a slowing economic outlook ahead, with leading economic indicators already weakening.
Could Gold Be Poised for a Comeback In 2023?
Gold’s shine may have dulled a bit in 2022, but precious metals have not lost their luster. Despite rising interest rates and a historically strong dollar, gold has managed to stay competitive against traditional safe-haven government bonds and other asset classes.
An ETF Strategy to Capitalize on the Global Transition to Net Zero
As the world moves toward a net zero climate goal, investors can capitalize on the global shift through a specialized exchange traded fund strategy to target companies poised to benefit the most from the changes.
Transitioning to Net Zero: What Investors Need to Know
Featured The effects of climate change are already being felt, inspiring many companies to targeted net-zero emissions in their business operations and products. Achieving carbon reduction goals and transitioning to a low-carbon economy will significantly impact many industries over the next few decades. Investors may want to consider the opportunities that these transformations will generate.
Capture the Future of Autonomous Technologies with This Innovative ETF Strategy
Investors who are interested in innovative ETF solutions should take a look at ARK Invest’s research process, and how ARK approaches cost decline modeling and company valuations. In the recent webcast, How Autonomous Tech Will Shape the Future, Tasha Keeney, director of investment analysis and institutional strategies at ARK Invest, explained ARK Invest’s Iterative Investment Process that combines top-down and bottom-up research to give investors their final results.
How Autonomous Tech Will Shape the Future
ARK recognizes that disruptive innovation causes rapid cost declines, cuts across sectors, and spawns further innovation. Through an iterative investment process, combining top-down and bottom-up research, ARK aims to identify innovation early, capitalize on the opportunities, and provide long-term value to investors.
How Financial Advisors Can Navigate the Markets Ahead
Investors still face many hurdles, but financial advisors can turn to model portfolio strategies to diversify their portfolios and navigate the challenging market environment. In the recent webcast, WisdomTree’s 2023 Market Outlook: Balancing Risk and Reward, Kevin Flanagan, head of fixed income strategy at WisdomTree Asset Management, helped outline the current outlook of ongoing inflationary pressures, elevated interest rates, and slowing economic growth.
WisdomTree’s 2023 Market Outlook: Balancing Risk and Reward
As we contend with a challenging fixed-income environment, investors will need to go beyond their comfort zones and consider strategies that seek to better manage ongoing risks.
ETF Ideas for the Markets Ahead
As we consider the global economic outlook, the impact of fiscal and monetary policy will have on markets ahead, investors should prep their exchange traded fund investment portfolios for 2023.
Preparing Your Portfolio For 2023
With both stocks and bonds down this year, 2022 is ranking to be the second-most volatile year on record. As we approach the new year, putting the 2022 market detractors into context can help you position a portfolio in 2023.
Bond ETF Strategies to Help Enhance Your Core Fixed-Income Portfolio
Investors can turn to innovative systematic bond exchange traded fund strategies, like those practiced by Dimensional, to help navigate today’s fixed-income market environment.
Dimensional Presents Bond Strategies Built for Volatility
After decades of riding on a falling rate environment, fixed-income investors have faced a challenging year with elevated inflation weighing on real yields and hawkish Federal Reserve monetary policies adding to interest rate risks. Nevertheless, there are alternative bond strategies that could still help investors diversify risk and maintain reliable income generation.
Look to Multi-Factor, Smart Beta ETFs to Enhance Your Core Portfolio
In today’s market environment, exchange traded fund investors should consider exposure to rewarded factors while aiming to maintain a controlled level of active risk relative to the market cap benchmark.
Blending Quality, Value, Momentum, Size and Minimum Volatility
The investment premium historically offered by market factors such as quality, value, momentum, size, and minimum volatility, has attracted many investors who are seeking to diversify their traditional equity portfolio allocations, but these factors have also followed cyclical trends of their own. Alternatively, we can turn to multiple-factor strategies that seek to combine these various stock characteristics to diversify and serve as a core of the portfolio.
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Young People Make Their Voices Heard
On November 8, Americans across the country voted in midterm elections. The Republican Party narrowly regained control of the United States House of Representatives. Democrats, the party of President Joseph R. Biden, maintained control of the U.S. Senate by a slim margin. The final Senate seat will be decided in a runoff election on December 6 in Georgia. Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock will face Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
Active Yield-Generating ETFs May Help Investors Navigate Rough Conditions
As we consider the current outlook for inflation and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, bond investors can turn to actively managed core fixed income ETFs that seek to generate real income and positive alpha for their portfolios.
Dividend ETF Ideas for Income-Focused Investors in Today's Market Environment
Investors can focus on dividend income payers and related exchange traded fund strategies to shore up their investment portfolios and help generate monthly income to wait out the ongoing risks.
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