DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
Avid Bioservices, Inc, a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) focused on the process development and manufacturing of monoclonal antibodies, proteins and enzymes, today announced that its demand for services has reached an all-time high, while projected revenue for its current fiscal year ending April 2013 is expected to surpass $18 million, a 20% increase from the previous fiscal year.
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Element Six And The University Of Warwick Announce Development Of New Boron-Doped Synthetic Diamond Electrode For Extreme Electroanalysis Sensing Applications
AT PITTCON 2013, Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials and member of the De Beers Group of Companies, recently announced that it has engineered DIAFILM EA (Electroanalysis grade) in collaboration with The University of Warwick.
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PBS Biotech Launches Single-Use Bioreactor For Development Of New Vaccines And Biosimilars PBS Biotech, Inc., a developer of state of the art bioreactors to be used in the fast growing biotechnology market, announced recently the launch of its innovative PBS 3 single-use bioreactor system.
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MicroRNAs Can Convert Normal Cells Into Cancer Promoters
Unraveling the mechanism that ovarian cancer cells use to change normal cells around them into cells that promote tumor growth has identified several new targets for treatment of this deadly disease.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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Biological Contamination Events In Isolators: What Lessons Can Be Learned?
Microbiological deviation and biological contamination events have been observed in pharmaceutical isolators including those used in production, sterility test and pharmacy aseptic services. By James Drinkwater, Bioquell UK Process & Compliance Director
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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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Protein A Alternatives: Mixed Mode Resins For High Throughput mAb Feedstocks
Mixed mode resins can serve as an alternative to protein A in intermediate processing. Implementation of mixed mode resins can reduce water required for filtration and time for column loading.
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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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Turning Data Into Information
As biopharmaceutical manufacturing has evolved from small-scale lab production in small flasks to massive commercial production in deep-tank bioreactors, an avalanche of production data has evolved to support it. From individual unit operation skids to distributed control systems and enterprise resource planning tools, biomanufacturing today is buried by the sheer quantity of data coming in from the manufacturing floor.
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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