Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Daily Archives

Immunotherapy for Cancer: Why Fight Only Half the Battle?

Immunotherapy has made incredible strides over the past several years. Studies have shown it to be effective in treating many diseases that attack the immune system, such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, and (most recently) cancer. With the latter in particular, although immunotherapy is proving to be effective for some patients, most do not respond to the treatment. It is time for the industry to reevaluate how it approaches immunotherapy especially for treatment-resistant patients. In the fight against…

Sartorius Novasep team on membrane chromatography

Sartorius Stedim Biotech will combine its single-use technology with Novasep’s continuous chromatography BioSC platform to develop a membrane chromatography system. The deal sees the two vendors team up to aid biomanufacturing intensification by developing new technologies in the downstream based on membrane chromatography. “The systems expertise and established BioSC platform at Novasep, and the single-use expertise and technology coming from SSB [Sartorius Stedim Biotech] will both be key factors in the success of this collaboration,†Kathryn Schnorf, head of Product…