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.
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NIH Scientists Map First Steps In Flu Antibody Development
National Institutes of Health scientists have identified how a kind of immature immune cell responds to a part of influenza virus and have traced the path those cells take to generate antibodies that can neutralize a wide range of influenza virus strains. Study researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH, were led by Gary Nabel, M.D., Ph.D., director of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center. Their findings appear online in advance of print in Nature.
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Protein Central To Cancer Stem Cell Formation Provides New Potential Target
Researchers have identified a pivotal protein in a cellular transformation that makes a cancer cell more resistant to treatment and more capable of growing and spreading, making it an inviting new target for drug development.
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Novavax Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial Of RSV Vaccine Candidate
Novavax, Inc. today announced that enrollment has begun in a Phase 2 dose-ranging clinical trial of its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidate in women of childbearing age.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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Global Biochemical Profiling For Bioprocess Optimization
It is widely understood that the production phase of bioprocessing can have a significant impact on the overall profitability of the biopharmaceutical.
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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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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.
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SciLog - Creating Advanced Biotech Equipment With Mettler Toledo For nearly two decades, SciLog, Inc. has been dedicated to creating revolutionary single-use purification systems and disposable sensor technologies.
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Optimized Sterile Filtration of Pharmaceutical Solutions
The cost of filtration and separation stages within the production of pharmaceuticals has been increasing along with the increased complexity of final drug products.
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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.