ELSD Used For Drug Discovery

By Kenneth Carter


During international sports the athletes used to take drugs in order to enhance their performance. Using the process called chromatography the blood and urine samples were collected and analyzed using ultra violet rays. UV helped in the separation of the molecules in its purest form for detection. Later advanced drugs were used which were soluble in blood and urine. So using UV it was very hard to detect these components. ELSD installation helped in detecting soluble drugs.

Pharmaceutical is the preparation of drugs used for medicines. They go through proper safety testing before launching the product into the market. There are pharmaceutical companies that specializes in particular field of drugs. They distribute the medicines in wholesale to the local clinics and retailers for sales.

Life science is the complete study of the environment. It is concerned with living and non living matter. The applications are in agriculture, toxicology, genetics and forensic. We can see it involves three subjects physics, chemistry and biology. Broadly this is a study of living organisms and life.

Forensic science is the study of the dead body. The objective is to collect evidence for criminal investigation. Earlier times since this science did not exist the criminals used to escape from punishments. The judicial courts heavily relied on witness and evidences. The study helped in careful examination of the dead to determine the exact time of death and it also differentiated between a suicide and murder.

A narcotic is study of any compound that induces sleep. Earlier the medicines like morphine was developed as a pain killer, however since it had sedative property people misused it and started getting addicted to it. Later cocaine and heroin drugs originated which were expensive and making the youth addicted to it. Due to this there were rise in crime.

Drug mafias are the illegal producers and suppliers of expensive substances like cocaine, meth, heroin etc. Since the drugs have destroyed youth and families the government is keeping a very close watch on it. The punishment for trafficking is very severe even up to death sentence. Still this business is going on secretively. People who are dealing with it are armed.

Testing the safety of drug is a crucial part before launching a medicine. There are three phases of testing that occurs. Firstly medicine is tested the cells of human stored in laboratory. In the second phase it is tested on an animal. After getting success in the previous stage it is administered on human beings for safety.

Chromatography is a process if extracting the components from the mixture. These components after separation can be used for later. The material extracted will be in their purest form. Then individually the proportions of these substances are analyzed in the mixture. There are two stages which are mobile and stationary phase. Usually the mixture is dissolved to a liquid as mobile phase and they travel in a structure holding the material which is the stationary phase.

Nowadays every item that we consume contains chemicals and pesticides. As a precautionary measure we should wash the vegetables thoroughly. We should also check the chemical content on the product before buying. In order to stay healthy doing health checkup in laboratory once in a year is recommended. Generating awareness to our children will be good.




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