Thursday, November 16, 2017 Daily Archives

Ask the Expert: Single-Use Bag Permeability Testing in Cryopreservation Conditions

In BPI’s “Ask the Expert†webcast on 4 October 2017, Mike Johnson (market development manager at Entegris Life Sciences) discussed single-use bags and gas permeation. Johnson’s Presentation Permeation rates are a function of fluid properties, the type of material being penetrated, and application temperature. Standardized test methods used to determine permeability characteristics include ASTM D1434 and ASTM D3985. A fixture in Entegris’s test apparatus holds a sample plaque that is flanked upstream by high-pressure gas and downstream by a sensor…

Isolator advantages in Cell Therapy Production

With numerous cellular and gene therapy products seeing strong initial clinical successes, investment in next-generation technologies by both large bio/pharma companies and start-up specialist firms has been significant. In fact more than 750 companies worldwide declare themselves to be in the “regenerative medicine†market space, with a high percentage of year on year increases in the number of cellular and gene therapy drugs in clinical trials. Many of these companies are eager to advance from early stage clinical trials to…