DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
Untapped Potential Of Protein A To Be Highlighted At BPI Conference
Pete Gagnon, group manager for downstream processing at the Bioprocessing Technology Institute in Singapore, discusses his upcoming presentation at the 2015 BioProcess International (BPI) Conference. Protein A: the Fine Print, is one of several scheduled during the pre-conference symposia track, Innovation in Process and Product Development Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Development.
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Scientists Find A New Way To Boost Common Cancer Drugs
Shutting down a specific pathway in cancer cells appears to improve the ability of common drugs to wipe those cells out, according to new research from scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center, published in the January issue of Cancer Discovery.
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Population Genetics Validates GenomePooling For Cancer
Population Genetics Technologies Ltd., creator of innovative methods for genetic analyses and biomarker discovery, has successfully completed a pilot study to prove that its GenomePooling method is sensitive and accurate enough to detect even small percentages of gene variants within cancer tissue. This validates the method’s suitability for use in IntReALL 2010, the world’s largest genetic analysis of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) relapse cases. ALL is the most common childhood malignant disease.
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FDA Offers New Guidance On Developing Drugs For Alzheimer's Disease
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a proposal designed to assist companies developing new treatments for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, before the onset of noticeable (overt) dementia.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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Compound Profiling And Toxicity
Utilizing a systems approach to drug discovery has generated a multitude of high affinity compounds for various classes of molecular targets with different degrees of disease state validation.
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Continuous Biomanufacturing: 10 Reasons Sponsors Hesitate
The industry is abuzz with talk about continuous biomanufacturing (CB), and its virtues have been well described. Here we will look at some of the barriers or concerns perceived to limit its value to the industry. Justified or not, quite a few concerns have been expressed regarding the implementation of this new, rather disruptive technology.
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Automated Bioluminescent ADCC Reporter Bioassay Using Bioengineered Jurkat Cells
Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly exploring new biologic and biosimilar products, and thus increasing monoclonal antibody (mAb) immunotherapeutic research. By Tracy Worzella, Promega Corporation and Brad Larson, Applications Department, BioTek Instruments, Inc.
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Accelerating Biopharmaceutical Development From DNA To Drug
In the last decade, single-use solutions for virtually every bioprocess unit have been developed, and considerable investments have been made by the industry into areas that underpin this technology.
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Microbial Fermentation In Single-Use Xcellerex™ XDR-50 MO Fermentor System
This application note describes the performance of a single-use Xcellerex XDR-50 bioreactor system when used in cultivations of E. coli and of modified Pseudomonas fluorecsens (P. fluorescens) producing a monoclonal antibody (MAb). Both the achieved microbe densities and product yield were shown to be consistent with the performance of conventional stainless steel systems.
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Sani-Tech® Ultra White Paper
For several years, pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals have increasingly stated concerns about material leachables and extractables and their impact on the products they produce. Fluid transfer systems that include flexible tubing have been at the forefront of this discussion.