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Chromatography Scale-Up: Don’t Get Tied Down by Bed Height
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When scaling, you can make better use of existing chromatography columns while avoiding overcapacity.
Keeping a constant residence time is a well-est…
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Biopharma Says It Has an Evolution in New Technologies and Processes
Another challenge is maintaining sanitary conditions in a continuous process; the control of bioburden, while basic, is fundamental to success, said Galliher.
Implementing automation technology ca…
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Sanitization of ÄKTA™ pilot 600 Using Sodium Hydroxide
The ÄKTA pilot 600 chromatography system is designed to facilitate sanitization, with the high standards imposed by regulatory authorities for purity of the clinical products in mind. In this stu…
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Exotoxin Clearance from mAb Samples in a Two-Step Chromatography Process
A heat-stable exotoxin can remain as a contaminant of a drug substance throughout the whole manufacturing process, with the risk of adversely affecting patients’ health. One such toxin is cereulide …
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Process Chromatography: Continuous Optimization
…oncentrations of sodium hydroxide needed for cleaning and sanitization, which increases the risk for bioburden issues, according to Westman. “We believe that both binding capacities and chemical resi…
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Impact of sporicidal agent on MabSelect SuRe™ protein A resin lifetime
Bacterial endospore contamination constitutes a challenge in bioproduction due to their resistance to high concentrations of NaOH, commonly used in sanitization procedures. Hence, there is an intere…
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Ensuring the Biological Integrity of Raw Materials
By Catherine Shaffer
Contamination with microbes, mycoplasma, viruses, and other adventitious agents can be a significant problem in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Although contamination can o…
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Design and Qualification of Single-Use Systems
The author provides a review of the concepts of design and qualification that apply to single-use systems.
By Jerold M. Martin
Single-use technologies (SUT) have made significant inroads in …
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Platform Approach Speeds Process Development
In a disposable process chain, changeover activities are reduced, which lowers the risks for bioburden and eliminates the risk for carry-over of residual product. The faster changeover is beneficial f…
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Fluid Handling in Biopharma Facilities
Kaap (Parker domnick hunter): Besides open-vessel mixing, most single-use applications for bioprocessing steps involve low bioburden fluids being transferred. There is a trend to move to closed system…