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The DeltaV™ PK Controller: Powerful Standalone — Easily Integrated

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The PK Controller brings ground-breaking innovation and technology that is powerful standalone for small units and easily integrates into a plant-wide DCS. With faster logic execution, built-in native Ethernet ports and native device protocols, the DeltaV™ PK Controller addresses a wide variety of applications and system sizes. The fit-for-purpose controller enables you to have a single native database and system allowing you to shorten project schedule and accommodate late changes. What is Powerful Standalone? Operate and configure your standalone applications…

July 30, 2018

Validation of the MycoSeq Mycoplasma Detection Kit for the Release of Veterinary Products

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This webcast features: Sébastien Lievyns, Scientist, and Dr. Anne Thomas, Senior Principal Scientist, Analytical Sciences, Zoetis This webcast aims to show how Zoetis has validated the MycoSeq kit for the release of animal products. The Analytical Sciences group at Zoetis confirmed the limit of detection at 10 CFU/mL and good repeatability and intermediate precision of the qualitative mycoplasma qrt-PCR method in presence of these products. For direct PCR performed on vaccine, a background amplification is sometimes observed inducing a signal…

July 16, 2018

Accelerating Intensified Bioprocesses with High-Throughput Small-Scale Tools

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While many biopharmaceutical companies are exploring paths toward continuous processing, many tools already exist for implementing process intensification. As the authors of this special report illustrate, hybrid continuous processes that benefit from single-use technologies along with continuing improvements in perfusion cell culture already now are enabling improvements in cost reduction and accelerating time to market. And novel high-throughput and automated small-scale systems are helping development scientists gather more information in less time than before, reduce their development footprints, and make…

June 26, 2018

KrosFlo KR2i with KONDUiT: Turnkey Benchtop System for Walkaway TFF Automation

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This webcast features: Philip Yuen, PhD, Application Scientist, Repligen Perform efficient, fully automated downstream tangential flow filtration with volumes from 1mL to 10 Liters. Fully integrated and easy to use out of the box, the Spectrum® KrosFlo® KR2i TFF System from Repligen is the lowest priced fully automated system available today that delivers precise and reproducible control and documentation of TFF processes. The system is compatible with hollow fiber or flat sheet filters, and offers a number of user-defined set-point…

June 25, 2018

Single-Use Bioreactors: Performance and Usability Considerations Part 1: Performance for Process Control

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There is ever increasing pressure for the biopharmaceutical industry to drive toward higher efficiency and lower costs. Compared to the past, target markets for many drugs typically are becoming smaller, and so-called blockbuster drugs are becoming more the exception than the rule. Regulatory agencies have continued to increase the pressure on drug makers to meet increasing quality standards and accept higher levels of responsibility. Furthermore, customer pricing, healthcare markets, and recent biopharmaceutical pricing scandals all add incentives toward more efficient…

June 23, 2018

PDB-Dimer Payloads for Antibody Drug Conjugates: A Robust Approach to cGMP Production

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From the 1960s when monomeric pyrrolobenzodiazepines (PBDs) such as anthramycin were isolated and characterized, to the dramatic increase of potency induced by dimerization in the 2000s, PBD dimers have evolved as one of the leading classes of antibody drug conjugate (ADC) payloads. Currently, 17 ADCs are in clinical trials involving PBD-dimers — second only to auristatins (23 ADCs), and more than those with maytansines (16 ADCs). Four different PBD-dimer ADC payloads are in clinical trials: Talirine (SGD-1910) from Seattle Genetics;…

June 23, 2018

Accelerating Vaccine Production Using a Nonviral Enabling Technology for Cell Engineering

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At the recent World Vaccine Conference, Victor Ayala, PhD, an early stage investigator with Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. (ABL), discussed how to accelerate vaccine production using a nonviral enabling technology for cell engineering. ABL is a contract research/manufacturing organization (CRO/CMO) providing manufacturing and laboratory research services to advance leading vaccines and therapies from clinical development to the commercial market. The company has been conducting R&D research for over 55 years and performing CMO manufacturing for over 25 years. With more…

June 22, 2018

Ask the Expert: Developing a Whole-Genome CRISPR Screen to Improve Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells for Biomanufacturing

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Great strides have been made in increasing the yield of biotherapeutic proteins mainly through process improvements with a focus on media and feed strategies. But aside from single-gene knockouts to allow for metabolic selection systems, the Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) host cell line remains largely unchanged from what was used 30 years ago. In a webinar on 21 March 2018, Jamie Freeman (product manager at Horizon Discovery) focused on this as a bioproduction application of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic…

May 29, 2018

Setting Up a Rapid Mycoplasma Assay Supporting Recombinant Production

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This webcast features: Kent Persson, PhD, Project Manager, Octapharma Octapharma AB in Stockholm, Sweden, is the site for the NUWIQ® production, a recombinant human FVIII produced in human cells. Regulatory guidelines states that recombinant bulk harvest need to be tested for mycoplasma prior to further processing. The presentation will give the overview on a nearly completed journey on replacing an out-sourced mycoplasma test with Thermo Fisher’s MycoSEQ qPCR assay. Octapharma in Stockholm has recently been sought regulatory approval for the…

May 25, 2018

EZ BioPac® Powder Transfer Gets Your Biologic to Market Faster, with Less Risk

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This whitepaper quantifies how one simple change can drastically reduce the time it takes to get biologics manufactured. Getting media and buffer into large-scale, continuous bioprocessing has been burdensome, time consuming and messy. Upgrading to modern single-use powder handling in your process gets your product to market without time wasted on complicated weigh and dispense steps, cleaning validations, or worries about powder in the air and in the room.

May 11, 2018