Personalized medicine is not new. For centuries physicians have provided individualized care based on the nuanced clinical presentations of patients and the severity of their diseases. However, analytical advances over the past decade have sparked a hope that we may soon be able to deliver medical care with unprecedented resolution and effectiveness. To distinguish that new era of personalized medicine from the kind practiced by Galen in ancient Rome, a new term has been coined. Precision medicine...
Thu Jul 04, 2019 03:00
Polyethylene glycol (otherwise known as macrogol or PEG) belongs to a family of synthetic nonionic hydrophilic polymers achieved as condensation products of glycols with ethylene oxide. Different types of macrogol exist, each with a specific molecular weight (from 200 to 20,000 g/mol) and length, which gives them specific pharmacological qualities (e.g., viscosity, density). As a consequence, PEG has wide applications as an excipient, solvent, dispersing and thickening agent in the food, cosmetic,...
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