DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
New Injectable Gels Toughen Up After Entering The Body
Gels that can be injected into the body, carrying drugs or cells that regenerate damaged tissue, hold promise for treating many types of disease, including cancer. However, these injectable gels don’t always maintain their solid structure once inside the body. By Anne Trafton
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Launch Of A New Protein A Chromatography Resin For Purification Of Antibody Drugs
Kaneka Corporation (Osaka, Japan; President: Kimikazu Sugawara ) announces the launch of KANEKA KanCapA, a new Protein A Chromatography Resin for the purification of therapeutic antibodies. 'KANEKA KanCapA' exhibits high antibody adsorbing capacity and alkaline resistance.
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New Insights Into HIV Vaccine Protection Will Improve Drug Development
Four years ago, a potential HIV vaccine showed promise against the virus that causes AIDS, but it fell short of providing the broad protection necessary to stem the spread of disease.
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Cloak And Swagger: Engineers Use Plasmonics To Create An Invisible Photodetector
It may not be intuitive, but a coating of reflective metal can actually make something less visible, engineers at Stanford and UPenn have shown. They have created an invisible, light-detecting device that can “see without being seen.” By Andrew Myers
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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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.
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Mammalian Virus Purification Using Ceramic Hydroxyapatite
Conventional techniques for mammalian virus purification produce variable quality, quantity, and significant loss of particle infectivity. We propose the chromatographic separation of viral particles of diverse sizes and from different families such as dengue, influenza, mouse hepatitis, adenovirus, poliovirus using CHT Ceramic Hydroxyapatite resin.
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Effect Of Sterilization On Mechanical Properties Of Silicone Rubbers
Silicone rubber is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry where sterilizability is an essential requirement for all fluid transfer equipment. Pharmaceutical products must be sterilized frequently and repeatedly by high level energy and/or chemical vapor in order to eliminate bacterial surface contamination.
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Cultivation Of CHO Suspension Cells And SEAP Expression
This application note describes the cultivation of CHO suspension cells in the wave-mixed Thermo Scientific HyPerforma Rocker Bioreactor with a maximum working volume of 5 L.
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Connection Technology Advances Closed System Processing
The global demand for new biologics and vaccines, combined with the growing emergence of biosimiliars, is challenging drugmakers to re-evaluate their processes and seek ways to make them more flexible, reliable, and cost-effective. By John Boehm, Colder Products Company
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Automating Protein Purification Processes Achieves Reliable Results And Reproducibility
ÄKTA start is an easy-to-use, reliable protein purification system. In this application note it is described how Erica, a post-doctoral researcher, used ÄKTA start to purify GST-tagged protein using a predefined method template, a GSTrap FF column, and a Frac30 fraction collector.