BioPharm Products

The annual meeting of the Honeywell Users Group for the Americas will discuss industrial automation.

The company announced its new ISQ EC Single Quadrupole mass spectrometer and the new range of Thermo Scientific MAbPac RP 1-mm columns.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech combined the company’s ambr 15 bioreactor system with the Nova BioProfile FLEX2 cell culture analyzer for laboratory experiments.

Endress+Hauser’s Memosens CPS171D pH electrode for hygienic and sterile biopharmaceutical processing provides stable measurements even after multiple cleaning and sterilization cycles.

The Cannabis Analyzer for Potency from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) is a high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) specifically for quantitative determination of cannabinoid content.

The Thinky PR-1 Nanoparticle Dispersion Machine from Intertronics is a desktop unit that can disperse carbon nanotubes (CNT), graphene, and other 2D nanomaterials within a closed container.

The Quantum Pump from Watson Marlow Fluid Technology Group is a peristaltic pump with patented ReNu single-use (SU) cartridge technology.

The X500B QTOF System is the latest solution in SCIEX’s X-Series Quadrupole Time of Flight (QTOF) mass spectrometry (MS) platform.

The mAb is the first approved treatment that targets the progressive form of the disease.

The Mobius MyWay portfolio offers off-the-shelf and configured-to-order single-use assemblies.

The decision to use disposable bioreactors is now driven by commercial rather than technological considerations.

Manufacturing for originator molecules is restricted by regulations, but drug makers can exploit newer technologies for the manufacture of biosimilars.

Evaluate and BioPharm International highlight the antibody-based therapeutics that may have 2017 launch dates in the United States.

Despite limitations, mass spec is having an impact on biologic drug development and manufacturing.

The Thermo Scientific Decapper 500 and 550 series tube capping systems are fully automated capping systems for use in medium- to high-throughput biotech, pharmaceutical, and clinical laboratories doing compound storage, high-throughput screening, biobanking, and genomic storage.

Zeiss’s Axio Observer inverted microscope platform includes new automation features, allowing researchers to perform multimodal imaging of living and fixed specimens.

The Prominence Ultra-Fast Preparative and Purification Liquid Chromatograph (UFPLC) from Shimadzu enables fast recovery of highly purified target compounds from complex samples including organic synthesis reaction mixtures and natural products.

EMD Millipore’s Mobius Power MIX 2000 can mix buffers, culture media powders, and other challenging materials.

The Print & Check Flex Machine from Antares Vision is a flexible high-capacity serialization unit created for track and trace.

The CELLdisc from Greiner Bio-One is a multilayer cell culture vessel that offers a growth area of up to one square meter for adherent mammalian cells.

Advances in cell culture media technology have helped achieve safer biologics.

The BioProfile FLEX 2 from Nova Biomedical is a cell-culture chemistry analyzer that allows for automated cell-culture analysis for small-volume culture systems.

The OM-CP-CRYO-TEMP ultra-low temperature data logger from Omega Engineering records temperatures as low as -86 °C.

The platform combines an expression system with equipment and process controls to enable rapid development and scale-up of robust titers.

Experts discuss recent advances in cell viability testing methods in bioreactors.

The Titan Syringe Pump from Syrris is a continuous flow chemical processing module suitable for lab-, pilot-, and production-scale applications.

The IsoBag from MilliporeSigma is used for the convenient transfer of contact and settle plates to production isolators.

The assay will provide information on biosimilar comparability.

Capacity for complex therapeutics is become increasingly difficult to predict.

The ambr 250 mini benchtop bioreactor system from Sartorius Stedim Biotech can be used for parallel fermentation and cell culture.