DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
Avid Bioservices, a subsidiary of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that it has been chosen by Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. (ABL) to provide development and large-scale manufacturing services to support cGMP production of an HIV envelope protein, as a component of a preventive vaccine against HIV infection.
-
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.
-
The Process Behind The Potential: Therapy For HPV16-Related Malignancies
HPV-related malignancies are poised to skyrocket over the next thirty+ years. Here's a look into Cue Biopharma’s engineering-centric approach to in vivo tumor antigen specific T cell activation to treat these cancers.
-
Whitehead Scientists Identify Major Flaw In Standard Approach To Global Gene Expression Analysis
Whitehead Institute researchers report that common assumptions employed in the generation and interpretation of data from global gene expression analyses can lead to seriously flawed conclusions about gene activity and cell behavior in a wide range of current biological research. By Nicole Giese Rura
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
-
Gemin X Pharmaceuticals: Finding A Drug's Mechanism Of Action
Gemin X, a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of advanced oncology
therapeutics, approached Metabolon to run a metabolism profile for one of their compounds—GMX1777. -
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.
-
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
-
Materials Of Construction For Biopharmaceutical Water Systems
Stainless steels are uniquely qualified for bioprocessing applications not only because of their long service life, availability, and fabricability, but also because they are non-corroding, non-contaminant, can be polished to very smooth finishes, are strong and rigid, can withstand heat and chemical sterilization treatments, and are easily welded. By Michelle M. Gonzalez
-
Efficiencies Of Natural Convection In Passive Pallet Shippers
Bulk transportation of temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals and biologics has become a common practice due to complex global supply chains. By Iftekhar Ahmed, Ben VanderPlas, and Stu Krupnick
-
Improving Aggregate Removal From mAb Feed Using Cation Exchange Chromatography
Researchers in the field of chromatography have required ever more sophisticated and selective methods for removing aggregates from the monomer.