Downstream Processing Featured Articles

51. AdvantaPure®'s BioPharm Tubing And Single-Use Systems To Be Featured At Upcoming Fall Shows 9/9/2010
    High purity tubing manufacturer AdvantaPure will exhibit at three trade shows for the pharmaceutical and bioprocess industries this fall. Each exhibition will provide the company with opportunities to meet with customers and prospects, answer questions, and promote the continuing adoption of single use products.
52. Scientists Help Identify A Missing Link In Taste Perception 3/6/2013

    Working with a multidisciplinary consortium of 19 researchers from nine institutions, Monell scientists have provided critical information to identify CALHM1, a channel in the walls of taste receptor cells, as a necessary component in the process of sweet, bitter, and umami (savory) taste perception.

53. RainDance Technologies And CLC Bio Collaborate To Develop Specialized Software Solutions For Targeted Resequencing 9/18/2009
    RainDance Technologies and CLC bio recently announced a partnership to develop specialized software for the analysis of targeted resequencing data generated by workflows incorporating RainDance’s Sequence Enrichment Solution and next-generation DNA sequencing platforms.
54. Element Six And The University Of Warwick Announce Development Of New Boron-Doped Synthetic Diamond Electrode For Extreme Electroanalysis Sensing Applications 3/18/2013

    AT PITTCON 2013, Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials and member of the De Beers Group of Companies, recently announced that it has engineered DIAFILM EA (Electroanalysis grade) in collaboration with The University of Warwick.

55. Galapagos And Roche Conclude Strategic Alliance 3/8/2013

    Galapagos NV (EURONEXT BRUSSELS: GLPG) announced today that it agreed with Roche to end their alliance in fibrosis.

56. Identified 115 Proteins That Would Allow Designing New Generation Anti-Cancer Drugs 4/26/2012

    Researchers from the Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) from the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) and the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have identified 115 proteins in silico (via computer simulation) that could be highly relevant to treat colon-rectal cancer, since they would make it possible to define the strategy to design new generation anti-cancer drugs.

57. Revision Of The EU GMP Guide: EU Commission Publishes Proposals For Chapters 3, 5, 6 And 8 1/24/2013

    On 17 January 2013, the EU Commission published the drafts of 4 revised chapters of the EU GMP Guide. The publication had been expected for a long time now.

58. HPV Vaccine May Benefit HIV-Infected Women 11/8/2012

    Women with HIV may benefit from a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), despite having already been exposed to HPV, a study finds. Although many may have been exposed to less serious forms of HPV, more than 45 percent of sexually active young women who have acquired HIV appear never to have been exposed to the most common high-risk forms of HPV, according to the study from a National Institutes of Health research network.

59. AB SCIEX And Indigo Team Up To Accelerate Adoption Of Next-Generation Mass Spectrometry For Clinical Research, Forensic Toxicology And Clinical Trials 1/18/2012
    AB SCIEX and Indigo BioSystems recently announced an agreement to jointly market mass spectrometry solutions that streamline data acquisition and automate data review to ensure high quality results in clinical research and forensic toxicology as well as pre-clinical and clinical trials of new drugs.
60. Researchers Identify Variations In Four Genes That Are Associated With An Increased Risk Of Colorectal Cancer 2/20/2013

    An international research team co-led by cancer prevention researcher Ulrike “Riki” Peters, Ph.D., M.P.H., and biostatistician Li Hsu, Ph.D., at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified variations in four genes that are linked to an increased risk of colorectal cancer.