Downstream Processing Featured Articles

1. How To Protect High-Value Media With Single-Use Connectors

   When dealing with high-value products in your downstream processes, the last thing you want is for your media to end up on the plant floor.

2. Single-Use BioFlex Tubing Assemblies Featured In New Brochure 8/25/2011
   Meissner has just released a new brochure featuring its BioFlex tubing assemblies. The single-use tubing assemblies are designed for secure fluid transfer in critical biopharmaceutical processing applications.
3. Oncobiologics, Inc. Announces A Collaboration Agreement With XOMA Corporation To Utilize XOMA's Fully Human Antibody Libraries For Their Discovery Platform 7/30/2012

   Oncobiologics, Inc. announced recently a collaboration agreement with XOMA Corporation to develop novel biotherapeutics based on engineering single-chain variable fragments (scFv) into a bi-specific antibody scaffold.

4. iBio, Inc. And GE Healthcare Form New Global Alliance 7/26/2012

   iBio, Inc., and GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE, announced recently a new global alliance to commercialize plant-based technologies for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines.

5. 3 Factors To Prevent Protein Aggregation For Your Protein Purification Buffer

   Before you purify your first batch of a new protein it is important to know what buffer you might want to use to keep precipitation of proteins to a minimum.

6. GSK Receives FDA Approval For MenHibrix 6/14/2012

   GlaxoSmithKline plc announced recently that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the vaccine MenHibrix [Meningococcal Groups C and Y and Haemophilus b Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine]. 

7. Top Single-Use Suppliers Make Standardized Equipment A Reality – Part 2 5/8/2015

   Industry experts offer the benefits of standardized single-use equipment to both suppliers and users, as well as how it addresses some of the biggest objections to equipment standardization, as well as offer insight from the eyes of a user.

8. 'Different Kind Of Stem Cell' Possesses Attributes Favoring Regenerative Medicine 11/21/2012

   A research team at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say the new and powerful cells they first created in the laboratory a year ago constitute a new stem-like state of adult epithelial cells.

9. Waters UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography Ushers In New Category Of Separation Science At Pittcon 3/13/2012
   Waters Corporation recently drew back the curtain on several important new technologies and a new business venture at Pittcon 2012, the industry’s most important annual new product conference and exhibition.
10. FDA Offers New Guidance On Developing Drugs For Alzheimer's Disease 2/7/2013

    Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a proposal designed to assist companies developing new treatments for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, before the onset of noticeable (overt) dementia.