Analytics

Demand for specific advanced laboratory skills drives creates a positive employment market.

Traditional biologic-based testing methods may need an upgrade to properly test newer therapeutic modalities.

A novel PTA technology captures more than 95% of the genomes of single cells, providing more uniform, accurate, and reproducible single-cell analysis data.

Pharmaceutical laboratories must keep lab data integrity practices in mind in order to properly handle the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The expansion of the companies’ partnership will integrate lead optimization efforts to advance cancer immune therapy drug discovery.

Dolomite Microfluidics and MilliporeSigma have begun a collaboration to release off-the-shelf microfluidic device kits for the fabrication of PLGA particles.

The new powerful, precise, and compact instrument can be retrofitted for point-of-care clinical testing at urgent care facilities, hospitals, or physicians’ offices.

The partners have established PathoQuest, Inc., a US subsidiary, and will construct an NGS-based testing lab at Charles River’s Wayne, PA, site.

Samsung Biologics has adopted Solentim’s cell seeding and cell metric platforms at its new R&D center in San Francisco, CA.

Mogrify’s new technology platform, EpiMOGRIFY, can predict cellular switches important for determining cell identity, cell maintenance, directed differentiation, and cell conversion.

With the presentation of research supporting the use of PTA technology, BioSkryb also launched its ResolveDNA platform for commercial use at ASHG 2020, held virtually on Oct. 27–30, 2020.

Assessing the integrity of filter membranes is critical for maintaining sterile filtration operations in laboratories.

Analysts should understand how a monograph, together with the associated general notices and general chapters, relate to their responsibilities under good manufacturing practices.

Following a recent expansion at its Cambridge, MA, facility, the company now houses a new suite of cellular analysis platforms that enhance its exploratory capabilities into oncology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.

The new personal capillary electrophoresis system, Spectrum Compact CE, performs Sanger sequencing and fragment analysis.

The company’s new CytoML Experiment Suite fully automates each stage of the flow cytometry data lifecycle, allowing for clearer data visualization and analysis.

Samsung will offer large-scale commercial manufacturing for drug substance and drug products to support AstraZeneca’s biologics therapeutics capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region.

Method-transfer kits help simplify analytical method transfer for global site certifications.

Dimethyl sulfoxide is increasingly used in high-risk parenteral and medical device applications that must be manufactured as sterile products in their finished form. A study evaluated the effects four sterilization techniques have on the product quality of this ingredient.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is increasing access to cry-electron microscopy with the help of contract research organizations.

The award will help a bioanalytics startup commercialize instrument technology for pharmaceutical antibody manufacturers.

The use of analytical assays is crucial for determining that biosimilar critical quality attributes remain on point.

The investment will allow for the expansion of analytical R&D efforts and will support the company’s reference materials business.

The company’s SLIM technology has been a part of the company’s accelerated growth by offering enhanced R&D analytics.

The company has launched a residual GMP-compliant test and dual sourcing opportunity designed to increase compliance and reduce risks for ATMP manufacture.

Dissolution testing is an important aspect of drug development as it provides stability parameters and helps predict drug behavior in-vivo.

Carcinogenic compounds have been found in a number of top-selling drugs, leading to recalls and bans. Preventing problems requires working closely with contract testing and development partners as well as API and other suppliers.

Stevanato Group and Colanar have signed an agreement for lab scale fill/finish capabilities to study container closure systems at Stevanato Group’s US TEC in Boston, MA.

The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare (EDQM) has published a new general chapter (2.6.32) in the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) supplement 10.3.

The authors present a simple way to qualify a swab-sampling procedure for its ability to recover residues of a small-molecule API from cleaned equipment surfaces.