The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded almost $40m (29m Euros) in contracts to four contract flu vaccine manufacturers as part of an effort to increase fill and finish capacity by 20%.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has launched a new range of culture media dishes designed cut the risk of contamination during lab analysis of facility microbiological QC samples.
GE Healthcare Life Sciences has agreed to build a modular biopharmaceutical factory in China for JHL Biotech, which could be a model for ways to grow local manufacturing in emerging markets.
EMD Millipore on Tuesday launched a new protein A chromatography media to help biopharma manufacturers purify monoclonal antibodies, as well as new prepacked chromatography columns.
Merck Millipore has launched a new range of depth filters that it claims overcome the shortcomings of traditional techs and clear a path to successful downstream clarification.
New European GDP guidance has led Sonoco to launch a series of shippers to store and transport biopharmaceuticals whilst ensuring an unbroken cold chain.
Bioreliance has doubled the space for clients to conduct their downstream bioprocessing studies with the opening of its new US Clearance Services Laboratories in Rockville, Maryland.
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Mass spec, chromatography and analytical tech firm Waters has started its search for a new CEO based on the assumption it will remain independent and keep the same growth strategy.
Alexion Pharma International has recalled a single lot of its monoclonal antibody (MAb) orphan drug Soliris due to the presence of visible particles in a limited number of vials.
Parker Domnick Hunter has launched a new filtration tech for antibody makers that combines know-how from several firms acquired over the past few years.
The global bioseparation systems market is projected to almost double in size from $3.25B in 2012 to $6B in 2018, at a compound annual growth rate of about 11%, according to a recent report on the market.
Adapting stainless steel facilities to incorporate increased use of disposable technology can help reduce costs and improve quality compliance, say TFS and Lonza.
New heat stabilization technology can preserve the quality of tissue samples used in mass spectrometry imaging to improve the accuracy of downstream analytical results.
A new genetically modified strain of E. Coli cells could create enough protein for downstream production without the need for the challenging endotoxin removal steps that are currently employed.
Recent reports of a 'clinical trial' assessing 'stem cells' for the treatment of AMD are wrong say the Japanese researchers trying to transform somatic cells into retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells for transplant.
AB Sciex is combining its chromatography business with the capillary electrophoresis (CE) business from Beckman Coulter (BC) to align BC’s expertise in microscale separation with AB’s expertise in microfluidics.
With the Chinese NAP (nucleic acid purification) market expected to grow more than 8% over the next year and no clear market leaders, companies are looking to take control of the industry space.
Biopharma firms, particularly those producing insulin and five of its analogues, have another option in the market of sub-2 micron solid-core chromatography columns with a recent offering from Waters.
As biopharma manufacturers look to save money setting up facilities and cleaning equipment, companies are increasingly turning to single-use technology and especially single-use bioreactors.
Lonza has launched a service to help biopharmas decide if promising protein drug candidates are worth developing, from an immunogenicity and manufacturing standpoint.
Over the last decade single-use technologies have moved into manufacturing scales and are increasingly being deployed worldwide, according to Thermo Fisher Scientific.
ASI has teamed up with Chromatan in order to deliver single-use and column-free capture purification services which could save clients 65% in chromatography costs in clinical manufacturing.
A new bipartisan draft bill released by four US senators late last week seeks to establish a lot-level electronic system to track pharmaceutical products and further secure the US supply chain.
ATMI has started selling a new cGMP-compliant fill finish platform in a continuation of its focus on what it says is the growing single-use tech market.
Merck Millipore hopes the promise of reducing the number of experiments needed during process development will win customers for its new MAb development kit.
Catalent has replaced all stainless steel bioreactors at its biologics facility in Middleton, Wisconsin with single-use techs citing cost and flexibility advantages.
R&D software firm Accelrys says it will speed up the pharma QA/QC process and reduce the compliance risk ten-fold through its $35m takeover of VelQuest.
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Retrofitting stainless steel plants with single-use systems is driving a “paradigm shift” in drug production but creates logistical problems, an AAPS panel said.
Researchers have called for closer monitoring of pharma manufacturing discharges after detecting endocrine disruption in fish downstream from a Sanofi plant.
