Downstream Processing Featured Articles

51. 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.
52. Kimberly-Clark Professional Launches Innovative RightCycle Program To Recycle Single-Use Cleanroom And Laboratory Gloves And Garments 4/25/2013

    To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste. 

53. Bionengineers Introduce "Bi-Fi" — The Biological Internet 9/26/2012

    If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading houseguest, not a killer. By Andrew Myers

54. Saint-Gobain Introduces Sani-Tech® Ultra 6/27/2012

    Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics continues its long tradition of innovation in ultra-pure tubing technology with new Sani-Tech^® Ultra. This platinum-cured silicone tubing meets the stringent requirements of demanding biopharmaceutical process applications while delivering improved performance in a number of areas.

55. 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.

56. Scientists Discover Why Some Proteins Are Speedier Than Others 3/11/2013

    Scientists at the University of Bath have solved a problem that has frustrated biologists for years – why different parts of proteins are made at different rates.

57. 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

58. 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.

59. GE Healthcare Life Sciences Launches Capto™ L Chromatography Medium For Capture Of Antibodies And Antibody Fragments 5/8/2012

    GE Healthcare’s Capto L affinity chromatography medium (resin) is designed for the purification of antibody fragments. It combines a rigid, high-flow agarose matrix with the immunoglobulin-binding recombinant protein L ligand, which has strong affinity for the variable region of antibody’s kappa light chain.

60. Filming Bacterial Life In Multicolor As A New Diagnostic And Antibiotic Discovery Tool 10/11/2012

    An international team of scientists led by Indiana University chemist Michael S. VanNieuwenhze and biologist Yves Brun has discovered a revolutionary new method for coloring the cell wall of bacterial cells to determine how they grow, in turn providing a new, much-needed tool for the development of new antibiotics.