Downstream Processing Featured Articles

1. Update On Advanced Rapid Microbiology Methods In Biopharma 2/13/2020

   A BioPhorum survey of biopharma end-users reveals the opportunity—and the challenge—involved in the adoption of advanced rapid microbiology methods. Audrey Chang, global head of development services at BioReliance Merck; Morven McAlister, senior director at Pall Biotech; and Scott Hooper, associate director at Merck & Co Inc. break down the data.

2. New SPE Accessories Hold Tubes In 96-Well Spacing For Automated Applications 8/9/2012

   Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces two new Tabless Tube Holder accessories for its Strata and Strata-X lines of silica-based and polymeric solid phase extraction (SPE) sorbents. 

3. Saint-Gobain Single-Use Solutions Optimize Bioprocessing Operations 8/1/2013

   The economic and operational benefits of single-use technologies have led to increasingly widespread adoption in the biopharmaceutical sector.

4. Rapid Single Molecule Haplotyping 12/29/2009
   A technical poster from Fluidigm Europe entitled 'Rapid single-molecule haplotyping in patients with sickle cell disease' reports upon the pioneering work of Dr Stephen Menzel and his fellow researchers at Kings College (London), School of Medicine.
5. NIH Scientists Map First Steps In Flu Antibody Development 8/29/2012

   National Institutes of Health scientists have identified how a kind of immature  immune cell responds to a part of influenza virus and have traced the path those cells take to generate antibodies that can neutralize a wide range of influenza virus strains. Study researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH, were led by Gary Nabel, M.D., Ph.D., director of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center. Their findings appear online in advance of print in Nature.

6. Horizon Discovery And Boehringer Ingelheim Enter Oncology Research Service Collaboration 1/14/2013

   Horizon Discovery Ltd (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, recently announced it has signed a research service collaboration agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim.

7. WHEATON Announces Acquisition Of CELLine 7/9/2012

   WHEATON has acquired the CELLine dual membrane, cell culture flasks from Wilson Wolf Manufacturing Corporation.  WHEATON has also entered into a long term strategic partnership with Wilson Wolf Manufacturing Corporation for further product development in high density cell culture devices for the production of concentrated, cell secreted products.

8. Study Identifies Human Melanoma Stem Cells 8/23/2012

   Cancer stem cells are defined by three abilities: differentiation, self-renewal and their ability to seed a tumor. These stem cells resist chemotherapy and many researchers posit their role in relapse.

9. 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.

10. TAP Collaborates With CCRM On Process Optimisation Project For Cell Therapies 12/3/2012

    TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, has joined the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine’s (CCRM) industry consortium to translate laboratory cell culture conditions into optimized processes and media for commercial production of cellular therapies.