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New standards to help remove foreign particles in bioprocessing
ASTM International says its new standard for single use system manufacturing processes will help to prevent the contamination of biopharmaceuticals with foreign particles.
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Utilising CRISPR could reduce contamination in recombinant-protein drugs
Researchers have used CRISPR-Cas to edit the genes of contaminating proteins in mammalian cells used to produce recombinant-protein drugs, which could reduce costs and strengthen quality.
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Manufacturing, Packaging & Logistics In-Depth Focus 2020
Included in this in-depth focus are articles examining the importance of child-resistant medicinal packaging and analysing whether continuous processing is the future for pharma.
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Bioprocessing & Bioproduction In-Depth Focus 2020
The articles in this in-depth focus discuss the importance of biosimilars and how liquid chromatography can be used to ensure the purity of lipid-based nanoparticles for drug delivery.
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European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 2 2020
This issue focuses on the regulatory challenges associated with increased ventilator demand during COVID-19, as well as articles investigating the use of LC-MS for protein characterisation, improving efficiency with continuous processing and the risks posed by cleanroom contaminants. Other features discuss the continual evolution of solid dosage forms and the…
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Collaboration to develop automated platform for environmental monitoring
An Irish partnership between academia and industry aims to develop a robotic method for automated environmental monitoring in bioprocessing.
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Technique to stabilise freeze-dried cellular machinery could improve cell-free biotech
Researchers have discovered low-cost preservatives that enable freeze-dried cellular machinery to retain full activity when stored at room temperature for cell-free biotechnology.
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Single catalyst could simplify biomanufacturing, lowering costs
Chemists have synthesised a single catalyst, able to perform multistep cascades of chemical reactions to produce a pharmaceutical product.
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How can NMR spectroscopy help protein biopharmaceutical development?
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a technique that most have heard of but many avoid, especially when dealing with larger biological macromolecules. Why? The common wisdom is that NMR can be complicated, expensive and involves quantum physics and complex equations. In the fast-paced industrial biopharmaceutical environment there may be…
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Using plants as bioreactors to produce proteins for therapeutics
European Pharmaceutical Review explores how plants can be used for large-scale, glycosylated protein bioproduction for the pharma industry.
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Researchers develop method to produce protein drugs from lettuce
Scientists have divised a way to manufacture protein drugs using lettuce leaves, which has presented a potential drug for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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New innovation centre for biopharma technologies opens
A facility has opened in Ireland which will allow the biopharma industry to trial and simulate the latest bioprocessing and quality control technologies in a GMP environment.
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European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 1 2020
Within this issue are articles which investigate polyelectrolyte multilayers as drug carriers, discuss how developments in pharma impact logistics and examine how the industry can regulate heavy metals in medicinal cannabis. Other features include how to use the correct tablet tooling and trends for the CDMO sector this year.
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NIBRT announces collaboration to improve downstream bioprocessing bottlenecks
A collaboration between the NIBRT and Avantor aims to address issues faced in downstream bioprocessing during buffer preparation for mAbs.
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A 360 overview of data integrity in life sciences
7 February 2020 | By OSIsoft
Trustworthiness in data is critical for operations within the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries, whether it is for compliance, operational excellence, reporting or development. Hear the latest findings from OSIsoft’s research in our on-demand webinar.
