DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
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.
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Identified 115 Proteins That Would Allow Designing New Generation Anti-Cancer Drugs
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.
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Colder Products Company Presents 'Validating Single-Use Connections' At Interphex 2007 Colder Products Company is spotlighting single-use connections at Interphex 2007 (booth #3037), Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, April 24-26
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Researchers 'Watch' Antibiotics Attack Tuberculosis Bacteria Inside Cells
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers report that mass spectrometry, a tool currently used to detect and measure proteins and lipids, can also now allow biologists to "see" for the first time exactly how drugs work inside living cells to kill infectious microbes.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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Proven Long Life Lasers™ In Optical Particle Counters Optical particle counters (OPC) utilize light illumination and extinction to determine the presence, size, number and/or concentration of particles. Particles are typically suspended in a fluid or air, which flow through the volume that is illuminated and viewed by the detection system.
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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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Connection Technology Advances Closed System Processing
The global demand for new biologics and vaccines, combined with the growing emergence of biosimiliars, is challenging drugmakers to re-evaluate their processes and seek ways to make them more flexible, reliable, and cost-effective. By John Boehm, Colder Products Company
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Turning Data Into Information
As biopharmaceutical manufacturing has evolved from small-scale lab production in small flasks to massive commercial production in deep-tank bioreactors, an avalanche of production data has evolved to support it. From individual unit operation skids to distributed control systems and enterprise resource planning tools, biomanufacturing today is buried by the sheer quantity of data coming in from the manufacturing floor.
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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.
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Biological Contamination Events In Isolators: What Lessons Can Be Learned?
Microbiological deviation and biological contamination events have been observed in pharmaceutical isolators including those used in production, sterility test and pharmacy aseptic services. By James Drinkwater, Bioquell UK Process & Compliance Director