DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
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.
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Cancer Cell Article Demonstrates First Definitive Evidence For Targeting of Pol I As New Approach To Cancer Therapy
Cylene Pharmaceuticals today announced that research collaborators at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) in Melbourne, Australia have established, for the first time, that RNA Polymerase I (Pol I) activity is essential for cancer cell survival and that its inhibition selectively activates p53 to kill tumors.
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Brooks' Single-Use REMP Tubes Support Optimization Of Automated Serum And Plasma Storage
Brooks Life Science Systems, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. a leading worldwide provider of automation solutions for compound and biological sample storage and management, announced recently that Karolinska Institute Biobank (KI Biobank) is successfully using Brooks’ REMP single-use heat sealed sample tubes to secure the long-term storage of plasma, serum and urine samples in its automated biorepositories.
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The Medicines Company And Bristol-Myers Squibb Begin Global Alliance For Recothrom®
The Medicines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO) announced today that the global license and two-year collaboration for Recothrom®, a recombinant thrombin approved by the U.S.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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Avoiding Drug Shortages With Microbial Detection
Over the past year, critical drug shortages used to treat a host of life-threatening illnesses have been making headlines. Microbial contamination has been cited as a major contributor to the shortage, yet the prevailing practices to ensure the safety of drugs have been slow to change. In most cases, quality assurance practices safeguarding the drug making environment continue to rely on periodic air and a culturing method from a prior century. By Aric Meares, President and CEO, BioVigilant
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Guidelines For Proper Filtration And Delivery Of Samples To On-Line Process Analyzers
Increasingly precise process control strategies, often linked to computer control, have accelerated the use of sophisticated on-line chemical composition analyzers in plant applications. Instruments such as gas and liquid chromatographs, ion chromatographs, laser optic instruments, atomic absorption instruments and specific ion analyzers, which were rarities in laboratories ten years ago, are now found routinely in plant settings. By Ken Perrotta, Division Engineering Manager
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Comparability Of The Cell-Freeze® (Charter Medical) Freezing Bag To The Cryocyte™ (Baxter) Bag For Cryogenic Storage Of Human Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells Successful cryopreservation of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) is dependent upon a number of factors, including the biopreservation media, freezing rates, and storage using sterile, cryogenically durable storage bags. The Cell-Freeze® cryogenic storage containers are 510(k) cleared for storage, preservation and transfer of hematopoietic progenitor stem cells (HPC’s). By Charter Medical, Ltd.
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Agilent Microarray Grant Application Support White Paper This guide offers an overview of Agilent’s microarray and SureSelect product offerings with ordering details to assist researchers with the details of grant submission.
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Biomanufacturing Supply Chains
This white paper examines the major issues with biopharmaceutical supply chains and how to balance inventory and risk optimally in the network.
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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.