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  Which Comes First – The Process Or The Solution?

  How can you determine what you should automate and the best approach for your business needs? I find the best approach is to understand your own business needs/requirements, how you want the process to work and why the specific solution you are considering will be best for your operations. By Christine Park, Quality Architech

• Complex Carbohydrate Chemistry: A Key To Addressing Unmet Medical Needs
• A Novel Affinity Adsorbent For The Capture And Removal Of Endotoxin
• PCR Automation: Getting It Right
• Growing Freight Tonnage Equals Growing Cargo Security Concerns

WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES

• Complete Accuracy Peace Of Mind

  As a global leader in the pharmaceutical industry, Wyeth utilizes Global Vision’s solutions to help reduce the risk of errors from occurring at key stages throughout the artwork workflow process. As a customer for over a decade, Wyeth has adopted and benefited from this type of technology early on.

• Effect Of Sterilization On Mechanical Properties Of Silicone Rubbers

  Silicone rubber is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry where sterilizability is an essential requirement for all fluid transfer equipment. Pharmaceutical products must be sterilized frequently and repeatedly by high level energy and/or chemical vapor in order to eliminate bacterial surface contamination.

• The Benefits Of Isolator And Aseptic Processing

  Isolators have been around the Pharmaceutical Industry since the early 1980s and in the Nuclear Industry (glovebox technology) since the 1950s. The intent of isolators is to create an airtight barrier or enclosure around a piece of equipment or process which provides absolute separation between the operator and product. By Gary Partington

• Precise Cold-Chain Logistics Supports Global Study Of Heart Disease

  The challenge involved the precise cold storage temperatures (between 2-8°C) required to assure the integrity of the strips during the transfer and storage of the product to various sites around the globe.

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  Asset Management & Recovery Program: Go-Optimize

  GoIndustryDoveBid's surplus asset management program Go-Optimize, is a comprehensive set of services working together that will allow a client to systematically and efficiently identify, re-deploy or dispose of surplus assets.

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  Opta® SFT The Opta® SFT Sterile Connector is a single-use device, composed of pre-sterilized female and male coupling body, that allows a sterile connection in biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
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  MET ONE 6000 Series Remote Airborne Particle Counter MET ONE 6000 air particle counters provide ISO 21501 accuracy for continuous particle monitoring applications. A compact design with flexible sizing, flow rate and communication options address the specific needs of cleanroom environments within the pharmaceutical, semiconductor, hard disk drive and flat panel display industries.
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  PRP-X300 Ion Exclusion Columns Polymeric ion exclusion packing for separation of alcohols and organic acids
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  NanoDrop 8000 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

  The NanoDropTM 8000 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer takes full-spectrum UV-Vis absorbance measurements of up to eight samples simultaneously.

BIOPHARMACEUTICAL NEWS

• UniVessel SU: Sartorius Stedim Biotech Develops Next Generation Of Its Successful Single-Use Laboratory Bioreactor

  Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international equipment provider for the biopharmaceutical industry, presents UniVessel SU, the second generation of its successful single-use bioreactor.

• Therapure Biopharma Inc. Awarded US Government Contract For Development Of Anti-Nerve Gas Agent
• Patheon To Host Complimentary Seminar On 'Formulation, Funding And First-In-Man: A Stepwise Guide To Clinical Success'
• Event To Highlight 'Product Enhancement Through Complex Dosage Forms: Adding Value To Products’ Lifecycle Management'
• As The First Biopharmaceutical Company Worldwide, apceth Receives Approval For A Clinical Trial With Genetically Modified Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells For The Treatment Of Cancer

BIORESEARCH ONLINE VIDEOS

• Video: Center Of Excellence For Sterile And Specialty Products The 175,000 sq. ft. Center of Excellence for Sterile and Specialty Products in Lakewood, New Jersey, focuses on aseptic production of sterile dosage forms.
• Biobanking And The Future Of Translational Medicine: Dr Gyorgy Marko-Varga Interview 2 Of 3 Dr Gyorgy Marko-Varga highlights how biobanking will be critical to realize the promise of Translational Medicine and what challenges we need to overcome quality hurdles going forward.
• Stax Depth Filter Systems Video With simplicity, intuitive operation, safety, and speed, Stax™ depth filter systems are ideally suited for the most demanding prefiltration, clarification, and adsorption applications in the biopharmaceutical industry.

FEATURED SUPPLIERS

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  Marken

  Founded in 1980, Marken is focused on supporting Life Science companies assure the quality and integrity of clinical trial specimens and vital medications through the logistics chain. For nearly two decades, Marken has extended the reach of Pharmaceutical companies, research laboratories and clinical trial research organizations bridge the distance between patients and life science investigative resources.

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  STERIS Corporation STERIS is a global leader in infection prevention, contamination control, surgical and critical care technologies, and more.
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  Hamilton Company Hamilton Company is a global enterprise with manufacturing facilities in Reno, Nevada and Bonaduz, Switzerland. Branch sales offices are located in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

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