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Biopharmaceutical Process Development: 2018 Lessons and 2019 Predictions
The biopharmaceutical industry continues to expand in new and exciting ways. What might be in store for 2019, and what important lessons should process developers take from 2018? Here, we look back …
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Evaluating Surface Cleanliness Using a Risk-Based Approach
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Surface cleanliness is crucial in ensuring that process residue, cleaning agent residue, and bioburden do not adversely affect the safety, quality, and potency of the drug manufactured.…
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Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
The primary factors that affect the risk of microbial proliferation during hold times are the growth-promoting properties of the in-process materials, initial bioburden level, and storage conditions. …
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Sterilization Trends for Single-Use Consumables
Some may be provided to a biomanufacturer without being irradiated or having been irradiated to minimize bioburden risk but without any claim of sterility. “It is therefore paramount that manufacturer…
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Digitalization: The Route to Biopharma 4.0
However, there are many attributes such as charge variant, aggregates, host-cell proteins, and bioburden that cannot be measured online at present and require sampling and offline analysis (19). Creat…
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Efficient Sodium Hydroxide Sanitization with a Novel Procedure of AxiChrom™ Columns Packed with Chromatography Resin
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Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) cleaning-in-place is the widely accepted method of sanitization employed by biopharmaceutical manufacturers to avoid the excessive costs and delays of a…
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Sanitization Opportunities for Protein A Resins
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Bacterial endospores present a challenge in bioproduction due to their resistance to common sanitization procedures using high concentrations of NaOH. Several protein-b…
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Technology Innovations Improve Process Chromatography Performance
“The current process technologies, such as functionally closed single-use manifolds for [chromatography] skids, pre-packed columns, and robust sensor components, enable long-term processing in a biobu…
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Moving PAT from Concept to Reality
Numerous at-line analyses evaluate host cell proteins (HCPs), DNA, viable cell density, bioburden, aggregates, product concentration, and particulates.
One of the greatest difficulties with many c…
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Cleaning Protein A Resins with 1 M NaOH
With increasing mAb titers, the impurity level of the cell culture feed increases. If not removed, these impurities can build up on the protein A resin and start to leach into the process material i…