Downstream Processing Featured Articles

  1. The Value of Closing Your Process

    For R&D and PD applications, closed, single-use systems can protect against both biological and cross-contamination, saving valuable research time and money.

  2. NIH-Funded Researchers Create Next-Generation Alzheimer's Disease Model 4/9/2013

    A new genetically engineered lab rat that has the full array of brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease supports the idea that increases in a molecule called beta-amyloid in the brain causes the disease, according to a study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

  3. Saint-Gobain's New C-Flex® ULTRA Pump Tubing For Biopharmaceutical Applications Outperforms The Competition 6/28/2012

    Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has expanded its line of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) tubing with the addition of new C-Flex® ULTRA pump tubing, a product designed specifically to perform in demanding biopharmaceutical applications such as pumping, single-use assemblies, process filling and sampling.

  4. Stellar Biotechnologies Announces Filing A US Letters Patent Application 10/4/2012

    Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. ("Stellar" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: KLH) (PINKSHEETS: SBOTF) (FRANKFURT: RBT) is very pleased to announce the filing of a US Letters Patent Application directed to protecting certain proprietary KLH manufacturing controls, KLH formulations and kits used in immunotoxicology and immune status testing which were invented by Drs. Chow, Sundsmo and Sagermann.

  5. Cangene Announces Closing Of Acquisition Of Late Stage Hemophilia B Product 2/20/2013

    Cangene Corporation (Cangene) today announces the closing of the acquisition of the investigational hemophilia compound IB1001 and certain other assets from Ipsen and Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. in connection with Inspiration's bankruptcy proceedings.

  6. Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Data System To Unite Chromatography And Mass Spectrometry 3/18/2013

    Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently introduced the next generation of its gold-standard Chromeleon chromatography data system (CDS), which now supports mass spectrometry along with mainstream front-end separation techniques in the same software package.

  7. Evotec Acquires Cell Culture Service GmbH 1/3/2013

    Evotec AG recently announced the acquisition of all shares in Cell Culture Service GmbH (CCS), a Hamburg-based company which supports the cell culture needs of a world-wide customer base of biotech and Pharmaceutical companies.

  8. NIH-Supported Study Shows How Immune Cells Change Wiring Of The Developing Mouse Brain 5/23/2012

    Researchers have shown in mice how immune cells in the brain target and remove unused connections between brain cells during normal development. 

  9. Researchers' Sequencing Of Human and Monkey Malaria Genomes Reveals Challenges, Opportunities In Battle Against Parasite 8/5/2012

    Genetic variability revealed in malaria genomes newly sequenced by two multi-national research teams points to new challenges in efforts to eradicate the parasite, but also offers a clearer and more detailed picture of its genetic composition, providing an initial roadmap in the development of pharmaceuticals and vaccines to combat malaria.

  10. Successful Immunization And Safety Documented In Nasal Administration Study Of The HIV Vaccine Vacc-4x Together With Endocine 5/10/2012

    Bionor Pharma ASA (OSLO: BIONOR), Eurocine Vaccines AB and Oslo University Hospital today announced that vaccine related immune responses are documented in patients given active vaccine in a nasal immunization study, combining Bionor Pharma's Vacc-4x and Eurocine Vaccines' adjuvant Endocine.