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Special Report: GE Bioprocess Insights

Introduction Accelerate activity. Improve predictability. Drive higher process efficiency. Increase quality. Lower cost of goods sold (CoGS). Secure supply. In an era where the biomanufacturing wheels turn faster by the day, where the stakes are higher and the choices seemingly endless, it is easy to become overwhelmed. How can you make good biomanufacturing decisions and develop robust long-term strategies when the environment is constantly changing? Whether a political shift affects your product or market, a natural disaster disrupts your supply…

Development, Qualification, and Application of Single-Use Technologies for Bioprocessing

In the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals, single-use technologies are now employed throughout the workflow — from buffer and media preparation to bioreactor cultures for vaccines and biotherapeutics production as well as in the storage of those intermediates and bulk biologics. This diversity of applications adds to the difficulty in establishing appropriate testing and requirement specifications, as well as qualification and validation approaches. The integrity and performance of single-use systems depends primarily on the characteristics of the film, the largest component (and…