People who regularly culture animal cells become so comfortable with standard techniques that novel approaches can seem contrived or even unnatural. However, the typical cycle of seeding cells at very low density in an excess of medium and harvesting (often quite aggressively) just before the point of medium exhaustion is quite an unphysiologic process. Popular culture systems often take cells that originally grew attached to a porous matrix at high densities, with little variability in nutrient and oxygen supply, and…
Thursday, October 1, 2009 Daily Archives
A Practical Method for Resolving the Nucleation Problem in Lyophilization
Given the prevalence of lyophilization and the growing pipeline of sensitive biological drugs requiring stabilization, pharmaceutical development and manufacturing personnel need complete, reproducible control over the operation, scale-up, and transfer of their lyophilization processes. To address the nucleation problem, Praxair has developed a step-change technology that adds consistent control to the freezing step of lyophilization. This low-capital, plug-and-play option can be readily implemented on most existing freeze-dryers with minor equipment additions and controls integration. Adoption of the technology requires no…
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Promoting Discussion in the Biopharmaceutical Community
The Biopharmaceutical Emerging Best Practices Association (BEBPA) hit the scene in September 2008 with its inaugural Bioassay Conference in Berlin, Germany. A not-for-profit association, BEBPA (www.bebpa.org) is managed by the biopharmaceutical scientific community for the benefit of the biopharmaceutical scientific community: companies, regulators, and clinicians. BEBPA provides an open international forum for the presentation and discussion of scientific issues and problems encountered in the biopharmaceutical community. The purpose of this open discussion is to promote development of innovative approaches and…
Perfusion! Jeopardy or the Ultimate Advantage?
In the past, perfusion methods were known to have high failure rates, but improvements in the technology have made perfusion more reliable. With newly improved technology and equipment, perfusion is now an efficient manufacturing process with the ability to reduce the cost of goods and capital investment required to bring a drug to market. In this on-demand educational webcast, Dr. Jason N. Carstens of CMC Biologics discusses:
• A Comparison Between Perfusion and Fed-Batch Methods
• Detailed Description of Perfusion Operations
• Advantages and Challenges of Perfusion
Join Dr. Carstens as he displaces old myths about perfusion and shows how this method of manufacturing can actually produce proteins that have more desirable product efficacy and safety profiles than would be possible with the fed-batch method.