Downstream Processing Featured Articles

41. Announcing High Quality Borosilicate Glass Centrifuge Tubes 11/21/2011
    Chemists are finding the optimal centrifuge tubes they need at Kimble Chase, the largest manufacturer of laboratory glassware products in the world.
42. MorphoSys Receives First Patent On Novel Antibody Platform Ylanthia In The US 2/8/2013

    MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted the first patent covering the Company's latest antibody platform Ylanthia, which became commercially available for existing and new partners in 2012.

43. Merck Assesses Single Use: Does It Make Sense At A Large Scale? 5/14/2014

    In an industry as conservative as the pharmaceutical industry, it is common practice to be adverse to new technologies because they are often viewed as too much of a risk. However, in this effort to play it safe, companies force themselves into a repetitive state of employing technologies that may not be the most efficient or effective. Rather than getting stuck in old habits — or conversely, jumping too quickly into new ones — Merck has put together a group of teams it calls the Technology Encouragement Collaborators, or TEC, to look at new technologies and determine whether or not to implement them.

44. Targeting Sugars In The Quest For A Vaccine Against HIV — The Virus That Causes AIDS 8/21/2012

    As a step toward designing the first effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, scientists are reporting new insights into how a family of rare, highly potent antibodies bind to HIV and neutralize it — stop it from infecting human cells. 

45. Is The Single-Use Standardization Debate Slowing Down Adoption? 3/16/2015

    Without single-use standardization, the customization required to build a single-use facility may prevent a full-scale adoption of single-use technology. So how do we move forward? Maybe, by taking a look back.

46. Bioresearch Online Interview With Kirby Pilcher And Dr. George Rodrigues, ARTEL 3/20/2007
    The editorial staff recently sat down with Kirby Pilcher and Dr. George Rodrigues to discuss liquid handling quality assurance and the solutions that are available to avoid potentially expensive and risky pipetting disasters. Kirby is the President and Dr. George Rodrigues the Senior Scientific Manager of ARTEL in Westbrook, ME. Enjoy the discussion
47. Article: How To Choose An Industrial Cation Exchanger For IgG Purification

    Cation-exchange chromatography is the third most used industrial method for antibody purification after anion-exchange and protein A affinity chromatography. It is most commonly used as an intermediate step but continues to attract attention as a capture method. By Pete Gagnon

48. 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.

49. Investigational Brain Cancer Vaccine To Be Tested In Phase I Roswell Park Study 9/27/2012

    A new clinical research study at Roswell Park Cancer Institute(RPCI) will test a first-of-its-kind cancer “vaccine” that may prove effective against many forms of solid-tumor cancers.

50. 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.