In an effort to make it easier for companies to make materiality judgments, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued a clarified definition of “material.” The definition of ...

The FDA guidelines that stipulate the conditions for starting materials are currently being superseded. PhRMA and several European pharmaceutical manufacturers have already added their voices to the ...

Proposed guidance documents assist drug manufacturers in qualifying single-use systems for commercial drug production. The increased market value and small batch sizes of biologics has led to a boom ...

A visual interface design for Google applications. First deployed in a Google+ app update in 2014, Material Design uses a paper metaphor with rules for the design, location, movement, transformation, ...

A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, 'hydration solids.' The new findings emerged from ongoing research into the strange ...

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France—After receiving an award for its 45-percent sustainable tire, Michelin is pushing for a "common and stringent definition" of what makes a material sustainable. On July 13, ...

In a move set to impact how companies decide to make securities disclosures, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of a flexible interpretation of “material change,” a concept that triggers ...

For decades, the fields of physics and chemistry have maintained that the atoms and molecules that make up the natural world define the character of solid matter. Salt crystals get their crystalline ...