Newsletter | November 2, 2011

11.02.2011 -- 7 Key Biosimilars Questions Answered

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7 Key Biosimilars Questions Answered
By Life Science Leader magazine.
With intense public debate around healthcare reform, and several biosimilars bills in Congress, many companies are no longer seeing biosimilars as a question of "if," but rather "when." In response, Life Science Leader sat down with Anita Marie O'Connor, Ph.D., senior director for biopharmaceuticals at MDS Pharma Services, a provider of drug discovery and early stage development services, to discuss the challenges facing companies embarking on biosimilars.


Glove Integrity Testing: Pressure Decay Method
By COMECER, Inc.
In recent years, glove integrity testing has been profoundly discussed and numerous articles have been written on this topic. However, many doubts still remain within the industry due to the lack of norms and clear guidance available. The 2008 Annex 1 to EU Guidelines to Good Manufacturing Practice reiterated the importance of having glove integrity testing.

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Tech Note: Screening, Ranking, And Epitope Mapping Of Antihuman IL-9 Supernatants
Monoclonal antibodies have become a particularly important resource for medical research, basic science, and disease diagnosis and therapy. Numerous applications utilizing monoclonal antibodies have been developed, including disease diagnosis, drug delivery to target cells (cancer treatment, immune suppression, HIV treatment), biosensors, organic molecule identification, blood clot detection, and septic shock treatment.

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The CHOZN ZFN-Modified DHFR-/- CHO cell line was created using Sigma's proprietary CompoZr® zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology. ZFNs are a class of engineered DNA-binding proteins, which facilitate targeted genome editing by binding to a user-specified locus and causing a double-strand break (DSB).
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