
Scientific breakthroughs in the pharmaceutical industry can happen overnight, but it still takes time to perfect a discovery’s applications. Deuterium-labeled active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are one specific advancement that has…
We’ve reached the two year anniversary of the first FDA approval of a deuterated molecule (April 2017, Teva’s Astedo – a deuterated version of tetrabenazine for the treatment of Huntington’s…
Deuterated compounds – in which a drug molecule’s carbon-hydrogen bond is replaced with a carbon deuterium bond to extend the drug’s half-life – continue to show promise in potentially boosting the…