Upstream Processing Featured Articles

  1. 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.

  2. 3M Purification Inc. Introduces New Zeta Plus Encapsulated, Single-Use Depth Filtration Products 5/4/2012

    3M Purification Inc. has expanded its portfolio of Encapsulated Zeta Plus single-use depth filtration capsules.  The two new product lines – Zeta Plus Scale-up Capsule Filters and new single-layer media grades for Zeta Plus Encapsulated capsules – are designed with our industry leading Zeta Plus depth filter media, designed for applications in the bio-pharmaceutical industry including cell culture clarification, downstream process protection, virus, DNA and lipid reduction, and host cell protein (HCP), protein aggregate, endotoxin and anti-foaming agent removal.

  3. Lpath Receives First U.S. Patent For Anti-LPA Antibody, Lpathomab 4/25/2012

    Lpath, Inc. (OTCBB: LPTN), the industry leader in lipidomics-based therapeutics, received official notification from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that it has been issued a key patent protecting Lpathomab™, a monoclonal antibody against lysophosphatidic acid (LPA).

  4. Peregrine Launches PS-Targeting Clinical Imaging Program 4/4/2012
    Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPHM), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class monoclonal antibodies for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer and infectious diseases, today announced that it has launched a program for its experimental phosphatidylserine (PS)-targeting molecular imaging candidate, 124I-PGN650, for the imaging of multiple solid tumor types.
  5. Single Antibody Shrinks Variety Of Human Tumors Transplanted Into Mice, Study Shows 3/29/2012

    Human tumors transplanted into laboratory mice disappeared or shrank when scientists treated the animals with a single antibody, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. By Krista Conger

  6. New Compact, Research-Grade UV-VIS Spectrophotometers Deliver Industry's Highest Absorbance Level And Ultra-Low Stray Light 3/21/2012
    Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has launched the compact UV-2600 and UV-2700 UV-Vis spectrophotometers, which feature advanced optical systems and Shimadzu’s proprietary “Lo-Ray-Ligh” diffraction gratings.
  7. GE Healthcare And BAC Collaborate To Launch New Bioprocess Affinity Resin 3/20/2012

    GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE and BAC BV, the leading provider of antibody-based affinity purification technology, announced recently that, following a successful collaboration between the two companies, GE Healthcare Life Sciences has added a new and innovative affinity resin to its portfolio of technologies for the purification of antibody-based fragments.

  8. EMD Millipore Launches Mobius CellReady 50 L Single-Use Stirred Tank Bioreactor 3/20/2012
    EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Germany, recently expanded the Mobius CellReady Bioreactor portfolio with the launch of a 50 L single-use stirred tank bioreactor for process development and pilot scale mammalian cell culture.
  9. Protein Researchers Unravel The Molecular Dance Of DNA Repair 3/19/2012
    "DNA repair is vital in keeping cells healthy. So unraveling the molecular details of how a cell communicates when its DNA is broken will help us understand how cells protect their genomes," Associate Professor Chunaram Choudhary from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research says.
  10. Waters Introduces New Product Line Of Traceable, Certified Analytical Standards And Reagents 3/13/2012
    Waters Corporation recently launched a new product line of analytical standards and reagents consisting of an initial portfolio of more than 200 pre-formulated reference materials and reagents for the scientific laboratory.