DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
Targeting Sugars In The Quest For A Vaccine Against HIV — The Virus That Causes AIDS
As a step toward designing the first effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, scientists are reporting new insights into how a family of rare, highly potent antibodies bind to HIV and neutralize it — stop it from infecting human cells.
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Whitehead Scientists Identify Major Flaw In Standard Approach To Global Gene Expression Analysis
Whitehead Institute researchers report that common assumptions employed in the generation and interpretation of data from global gene expression analyses can lead to seriously flawed conclusions about gene activity and cell behavior in a wide range of current biological research. By Nicole Giese Rura
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Cangene Announces Closing Of Acquisition Of Late Stage Hemophilia B Product
Cangene Corporation (Cangene) today announces the closing of the acquisition of the investigational hemophilia compound IB1001 and certain other assets from Ipsen and Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. in connection with Inspiration's bankruptcy proceedings.
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Novel Protein May Help Detect Lou Gehrig's Disease And Dementia, Mayo Clinic Finds
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered an abnormal protein that accumulates in the brains of many patients affected with two common neurodegenerative disorders — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, and frontotemporal dementia.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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White Paper: Computrac® Moisture Analysis Made Simple When people aren’t feeling their best they often turn to medicine for relief from the symptoms that are associated with being ill. The public trusts that the products by pharmaceutical companies will not only make them feel better but will also not have harmful side effects.
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Proven Long Life Lasers™ In Optical Particle Counters Optical particle counters (OPC) utilize light illumination and extinction to determine the presence, size, number and/or concentration of particles. Particles are typically suspended in a fluid or air, which flow through the volume that is illuminated and viewed by the detection system.
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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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A Purification Strategy For Clinical-Grade Monoclonal Antibody
mAbs are currently the most important class of therapeutic proteins. Advances in upstream process technologies have led to tremendous improvement of mAb titers in mammalian cell culture.
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An Automated Profiling Application For G9a Histone Methyltransferase And Bromodomain Proteins
Due to several findings, G9a and BET bromodomain proteins have become the target for numberous drug discovery projects. In this study, we describe a novel, cell-based assay platform that uses the robust, yet simple Enzyme Fragment Complementation (EFC) Technology.
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Continuous Biomanufacturing: 10 Reasons Sponsors Hesitate
The industry is abuzz with talk about continuous biomanufacturing (CB), and its virtues have been well described. Here we will look at some of the barriers or concerns perceived to limit its value to the industry. Justified or not, quite a few concerns have been expressed regarding the implementation of this new, rather disruptive technology.