Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) was faced with a challenge: double the number of projects in process development without significantly increasing headcount. Pawel Linke, a pRED lab automation specialist, tells the story of how the group approached this challenge with a focus on obtaining high quality data through automation and by integrating independent lab systems and devices to streamline their workflow. Implementation of high-throughput process development systems requires an orchestrated approach of both hardware and software solutions, so…

With our unique DNA writing technology, Twist Biopharma is accelerating the way our partners discover and optimize antibody therapeutics. We have decades of synthetic antibody library design and selection expertise and have the ability to write any DNA sequence to enable faster, better discovery and development. Using our precise, rational, expertise in library fabrication, we can create libraries in a fundamentally different way that allow us to address tough targets, e.g. GPCRs. Since we are a DNA product company, we…

The FDA requires biopharmaceutical manufacturers to understand and control sources of variation according to the risks they present to process and product. Cell culture media and feeds have been shown to affect cellular performance, product quality, or both. The evolution of media formulas to those that are serum-free and chemically defined poses both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is identifying which of the many components have the greatest impact on cells and the molecules they produce. The opportunity…

A critical factor for both the lowering in costs of development as well as costs of production for biologic therapies is to develop a cell line that grows faster and produces larger amounts of vaccines and drugs using low cost synthetically defined media. Dyadic’s industrially proven C1 gene expression platform creates a stable cell line in a shortened timeline, reducing the time from gene fragment to stable cell line by 50% when compared to CHO cells. C1 stable cell lines…

Three-dimensional (3D) cell aggregates are of great interest for many applications, including disease modeling, drug toxicity assessment, and manufacturing of stem cell-based products. Stirred-tank bioreactors are promising culture systems for 3D cell aggregates, as they allow efficient establishment and maintenance of cell aggregates, process monitoring and control, and process scale-up to larger volumes. Furthermore, they can be operated in perfusion mode, which allows 3D cell aggregates to be sustained longer than in traditional batch cultures. Researchers at the Instituto de…

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.

eve® is a modular software system for bioreactors and incubator shakers, rethinking bioprocess control to meet the needs of modern users: Fast, secure access to data via a web browser from anywhere, using a range of devices The move to Big Data Analytics for process data analysis A single platform for different types of information required by different users e.g. researchers, production and quality assurance A browser-based approach to accessing this information makes considerations such as operating system, size of…