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Ablynx And Its Partner Advance Nanobody Candidate ALX-0751 In Pre-Clinical Development

Ablynx [Euronext Brussels: ABLX] today announced that they have advanced the Nanobody(®) candidate ALX-0751, together with Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, into pre-clinical development in the field of oncology. 

  • Battelle Develops Transgenic Plant Protein Production Platform If your company is looking for plant-based protein sources, look into a new transgenic tobacco from Battelle’s Pacific Northwest Laboratory...
  • Acceleron Initiates Phase 2 Study Of ACE-536 To Treat Patients With Beta-Thalassemia

    Acceleron Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing protein therapeutics for cancer and orphan diseases, recently announced the initiation of a phase 2 study of its novel, investigational protein therapeutic, ACE-536, to treat patients with beta-thalassemia, a genetic hematologic disorder causing chronic and life-threatening anemia and serious complications affecting the spleen, liver and heart.

  • The Real Threat To Biopharma Supply Chains: Bioprocessing Materials

    The COVID-19 induced risk to biopharma is not a shortage of pharmaceutical ingredients. It’s the constricting supply of consumable materials and equipment necessary to produce therapies from them. Mike Piccarreta, Partner at Kearney, offers an outlook and practical advice on supply stabilization in this BioProcess Online exclusive. 

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Choose from ten fixed volume SoftGrip pipettes covering 0.2 µL to 1 mL. All pipettes have color-coded plunger buttons and labels for easy volume identification.

Hydrophilic or hydrophobic membrane filter capsules and cartridges for sterilizing liquid or gas. More than 20 different inlet / outlet connections, with or without vents and drains. SIP / Autoclavable. Specify when gamma stability is required.

High throughput and high productivity are standard fare for every Beckman Coulter centrifuge and the Avanti JXN Series is no exception. It’s more than capable of delivering solutions for shared labs, GMP environments, networked instruments and more.

STERIS Isomedix Services provides contract sterilization and microbial control services for single-use bioprocess systems used in the production of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines.

CHO Feed 3 is a chemically-defined protein-free feed medium of non-animal origin. Using Irvine Scientific’s Rational Culture Media Design™ approach, this formulation has been developed to achieve high growth kinetics and product yield in fed-batch processes.

BalanCD® CHO Feed 2 is a chemically-defined protein-free feed medium designed to be added as a fed-batch supplement to promote cell growth and increase process yields of antibodies and recombinant proteins.

ReadyToProcess ULTA normal flow filter capsules are single-use filters designed for laboratory through process scale applications. Cytiva provides filtration solutions and support for integrated bioprocessing applications at every step and every scale of the drug development, validation and manufacturing process.

PRP-X300 is a polymeric column packing for the separation of alcohols and organic acids.

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Bioprocess With The Bozenhardts is back, with a fresh episode packed with advice from Herman and Erich on the selection of filling systems for biopharmas. Listen in as the Bozenhardts give us an update on the process, logistics, and administration trends that are informing filling system decisions today, and offer direction on making choices that will prepare you for the fast-advancing therapies of tomorrow.

Beckman Coulter's Randall Lockner, marketing manager for centrifugation, explains the highlights of the floor model ultracentrifuge, the Optima X Series.

Bio-Rad now offers two very high capacity ion exchangers: Nuvia S, which can be used for capture and/or intermediate polishing; and Nuvia Q, which can be used for intermediate and/or final polishing.

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