Clinical studies have shown that treatment with thymosin alpha 1 increases response to vaccination.
Process characterization requires a significant commitment of time and resources, but the payoff is better process understanding, improved manufacturing success rates, and avoidance of costly regulatory delays.
Plant-derived hydrolysates can be used as valuable and practical tools to improve cell culture performance.
Select the best approach to determine critical quality attributes.
Canada's biotechnology industry has expanded rapidly in the last decade, as measured by industry-wide revenues, the launch of new companies, and the continuous diversification of its products.
This article presents ongoing research at VIDO-InterVac for the development of safer and more effective adjuvants. These include adjuvants that stimulate innate immunity in the body and combination adjuvants.
Utilizing a measured approach can increase the probability for identifying search criteria that fulfill a company’s strategy.
Computational fluid dynamics can resolve performance problems.
Genentech's evaluation of single-use technologies for bulk freeze-thaw, storage, and transportation.
In this article, the authors explored the elimination of a water rinse and blow down following the caustic wash step, examining potential safety considerations, the effect on the quality of the cleaning process, and the potential benefit of implementing this change.
Filterability and bacterial retention must be verified very early in process development to ensure successful sterilizing filtration validation.
Using a hollow microstructured transdermal system to deliver vaccine directly to the dermis.
An exponential feeding strategy coupled with automation doubled protein yields while reducing fermentation time by 25%.
As a key element in the peptide production process, quality should be built into every step.
Design of experiments is a valuable tool for identifying aspects of a formulation that are critical to product quality.
To speed up the downstream process, you must get the right data, in the right amount, at the right time. Here's how.
By considering stability as part of the cell line selection and cell banking paradigm, we can ensure that instability problems are not observed during clinical or commercial manufacturing.
Sufficient process history is key to the rapid transfer of your process.
Genentech's evaluation of single-use technologies for bulk freeze-thaw, storage, and transportation.
The authors provide their perspectives on shipping validation.
An exponential feeding strategy coupled with automation doubled protein yields while reducing fermentation time by 25%.
ACF medium sped up cell-line development.
An exponential feeding strategy coupled with automation doubled protein yields while reducing fermentation time by 25%.
HTPD allows rapid screening of chromatographic parameters.
Low-pressure process chromatography could not have developed without immense efforts to resolve scale-up issues in both column design and matrix stability.
Collaborations between Western and Indian companies may provide the best path for offshoring successfully and for developing India's readiness.
New technologies and adaptations of existing technologies can improve platform processes.