DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING FEATURED ARTICLES
Pfenex Inc. recently announced that it has awarded Althea Technologies a contract for the current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) manufacturing of circumsporozoite protein (CSP) from Plasmodium falciparum, an important and proven component of an effective malaria vaccine.
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GE Healthcare launches modular biopharmaceutical factory, KUBio
GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE, today introduced KUBio™, an innovative off-the-shelf, modular factory designed to save manufacturers of biopharmaceuticals both time and money. KUBio’s pre-made modules, which are assembled at a customer’s chosen site to make a fully functional ready-to-run bioprocessing facility, are significantly faster to install than constructing a traditional factory.
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Cancer Cell Article Demonstrates First Definitive Evidence For Targeting of Pol I As New Approach To Cancer Therapy
Cylene Pharmaceuticals today announced that research collaborators at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) in Melbourne, Australia have established, for the first time, that RNA Polymerase I (Pol I) activity is essential for cancer cell survival and that its inhibition selectively activates p53 to kill tumors.
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Roche Medicine Avastin Receives EU Approval For The Treatment Of Women With Recurrent, Platinum-Sensitive Ovarian Cancer
Roche announced recently that the European Commission (EC) has approved Avastin (bevacizumab) in combination with standard chemotherapy (carboplatin and gemcitabine) as a treatment for women with first recurrence of platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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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
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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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Sani-Tech® Ultra White Paper
For several years, pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals have increasingly stated concerns about material leachables and extractables and their impact on the products they produce. Fluid transfer systems that include flexible tubing have been at the forefront of this discussion.
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Important Considerations For Implementing A Single-Use Biomanufacturing Strategy
Recent trends in biomanufacturing technology and the biopharmaceutical market are supporting the increased adoption of single-use (SU) manufacturing systems. On the demand-side, the biopharma industry is focusing on niche and rare diseases with smaller patient populations, resulting in the need for smaller, more agile biomanufacturing capacity. By Jodi M. Zobrist and Nicole W. O'Brien, Ph. D., Gallus Biopharmaceuticals, LLC
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Cultivation Of Human CAP Cells: Evaluation Of Scale-Down Capabilities
The following application note illustrates how the DASbox Mini Bioreactor System combined with the BioBLU 0.3c single-use vessels supports bioprocess development in human cell culture.
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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.