DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
Critical Innovation Bioprocessing Trends For 2014
How the most critical innovations will affect the industry future with the efforts to reduce the costs of manufacturing a biologic, according to the 10th Annual Report and Survey of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturers.
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Waters UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography Ushers In New Category Of Separation Science At Pittcon Waters Corporation recently drew back the curtain on several important new technologies and a new business venture at Pittcon 2012, the industry’s most important annual new product conference and exhibition.
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MMRGlobal Targets Phase 3 Biotech Companies To Combine Assets With Life Sciences Group
MMRGlobal, Inc. (
OTCBB : MMRF) today announced that through its wholly owned subsidiary, MMR Life Sciences Group, the Company plans on exploiting its pipeline of biotech assets by facilitating a partnership or other joint venture with a privately held biotech company that has completed its Phase 2 clinical trials and is in the process of beginning Phase 3. -
Merck Champions Single-Use By Addressing Emotion Vs. Science
Lowering the cost of medication is the key to the US gaining a stronghold on the global pharmaceutical market. As anyone knows, in order to lower the cost of medication, the cost of manufacturing will need to be lowered as well. According to Chris Smalley, Ph.D., director of validation compliance at Merck, single-use technology (SUT) could be the hero.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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CD69 Expression On Activated Lymphocytes Is Stable In Streck's Cyto-Chex® BCT
The purpose of this study was to determine if the activation marker, CD69, is preserved and stable in whole blood samples collected in Cyto-Chex® BCT. Previous studies have demonstrated CD marker stability of whole blood samples collected in Cyto-Chex BCT for up to 7 days when stored at room temperature (18-22°C). By Jodi Alt, Ph.D
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Best Practices For Process Scale Column Packing Of CHT™ Ceramic Hydroxyapatite Media
CHT ceramic hydroxyapatite media require specific considerations during process-scale chromatography packing due to high specific gravity, rapid settling rate, and sensitivity to mechanical shear.
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Met One Sensors Resistant To Vaporous Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP) Pharmaceutical manufacturers often require an aseptic production environment to minimize the presence of microbes and their potential contamination of the manufactured product.
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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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Applications And Integration Of Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor For Biotech/Bioprocess
The increase in size and scale of bio-processing is presenting a new challenge. Traditional methods of sterilisation, to maintain clean facilities, are becoming difficult to deploy in a controlled and regulatory compliant way. By Richard Lucas, Ph.D., Bioquell UK Ltd.
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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.