MIRACULOUS ADJUVANTS: THE PHARMACEUTICAL POLYMERS

Pharmaceutical Applications of Plasticized Polymers

The modern pharmaceutical technology is not conceivable without plasticized polymers. The pharmaceutical applications of polymers range from packaging materials or auxiliary substances in conventional dosage forms to membranes or matrices modifying and controlling the drug release characteristics in therapeutic systems. Recently, a great variety of plasticized polymeric systems have been studie...

The Miraculous Universal Distribution

What is it, exactly, that scientists do? How, exactly, do they do it? How is a scientific hypothesis formulated? How does one choose one hypothesis over another? It may be surprising that questions such as these are still discussed. Even more surprising, perhaps, is the fact that the discussion is still moving forward, that new ideas are still being added to the debate. Certainly most surprisin...

Polymers for Pharmaceutical Packaging and Delivery Systems

Biomimetic polymers in pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences.

This review describes recent developments in the emerging field of biomimetic polymeric biomaterials, which signal to cells via biologically active entities. The described biological effects are, in contrast to many other known interactions, receptor mediated and therefore very specific for certain cell types. As an introduction into this field, first some biological principles are illustrated ...

The Supernatural and the Miraculous

Both intention-based and causation-based definitions of the miraculous make reference to the term ‘supernatural’. Philosophers who define the miraculous appear to use this term in a loose way, perhaps meaning the nonnatural, perhaps meaning a subcategory of the nonnatural. Here I examine the aetiology of the term ‘supernatural’. I consider three outstanding issues regarding the meaning of the t...