DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
Phenex Pharmaceuticals AG (Phenex) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc. and its affiliates (Janssen) to jointly discover compounds that target the nuclear hormone receptor RORγT and may have utility in the treatment of chronic autoimmune and inflammatory disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease.
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Roche Medicine Avastin Receives EU Approval For The Treatment Of Women With Recurrent, Platinum-Sensitive Ovarian Cancer
Roche announced recently that the European Commission (EC) has approved Avastin (bevacizumab) in combination with standard chemotherapy (carboplatin and gemcitabine) as a treatment for women with first recurrence of platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.
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Is There An Enzyme In Your Future? A method for reducing the chemical steps in vitamin C synthesis from six to two underscores the growing importance of enzymes in organic synthesis...
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Top Single-Use Suppliers Make Standardized Equipment A Reality – Part 2
Industry experts offer the benefits of standardized single-use equipment to both suppliers and users, as well as how it addresses some of the biggest objections to equipment standardization, as well as offer insight from the eyes of a user.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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Effect Of Sterilization On Mechanical Properties Of Silicone Rubbers
Silicone rubber is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry where sterilizability is an essential requirement for all fluid transfer equipment. Pharmaceutical products must be sterilized frequently and repeatedly by high level energy and/or chemical vapor in order to eliminate bacterial surface contamination.
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Monoclonal Antibody Purification Platform Using High-Capacity Protein A And Mixed-Mode Chromatography
The first step in purification of an important class of therapeutic proteins, the polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), is their capture from plasma or tissue culture supernatants. Protein A–based media are by far the most common class of affinity products used for this purpose.
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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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Chromatography Column Protection With 3M Purification LifeASSURE™ PLA Series Membrane Filters Protective, or guard, filters are often used in chromatography column purification steps to protect the column media from contaminants in the various fluids that come in contact with the column.
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White Paper: Economic Analysis Of Single-Use Tangential Flow Filtration For Biopharmaceutical Applications Prior to creating an accurate economic model for TFF, a thorough understanding of the process where the TFF is used is needed. A process model is a valuable tool when properly executed and it must accurately include all critical aspects of the purification process. By Michael LaBreck, Mark Perreault, Novasep
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Rapid Chemically-Defined Feed Media Development to Improve Simulated Cell Culture Processes
Implementing an optimized feed medium may be the most effective alternative for modifications to the growth medium in an existing process.