Newsletter | March 11, 2013

03.11.13 -- Roche Inks Cell Culture Deal With BioLamina

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Featured Articles

How To Avoid Pharma/Bio Cargo Theft
By JJ Coughlin, VP, LoJack SCI
If your job is even remotely related to the transport of your company's pharmaceutical or biologics products, you need to be familiar with the Supply Chain-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (SC-ISAC). That's because this organization has been collecting and analyzing cargo theft data for industries just like yours since 2005. And don't be naive — thieves are targeting your products.


Innovation In Assays And Analytical Methods Urgently Needed
By Eric Langer, President and Managing Partner, BioPlan Associates, Inc.
Biomanufacturers are increasingly demanding better analytical methods development as the industry expands its need to provide better metrics regarding process monitoring, comparability of products, quality, and a number of other critical areas associated with process improvement.

Spotlight On Lab Informatics

Gentle Washing Cultured Cells In Microplates
This technical note describes how the Tecan HydroFlex platform was successfully evaluated for gentle washing of strongly adherent cell-line A431 as well as for the weakly adherent P815 cells in a 96-well format.


Raw Materials Risk Mitigation And Management
Protecting your raw materials is a vital part of your process — and one that should be taken seriously. Repercussions — like plant shut-downs and drug shortages — stemming from events like virus contamination — can be far-reaching and difficult to overcome. To help safeguard your product, and to avoid potential adverse events, you can keep the following things in mind when sourcing media.


Laying The Foundation For Next-Gen Cancer Diagnostics
The molecular make-up of each tumor is going to drive personalized medicine. Our goal is to work with oncologists and pathologists and do nothing short of transform cancer care. We want to change the way cancer patients are managed, not just in academic medical centers but in communities across the U.S. and internationally.


Characterization Of Novel Pneumatic Mixing For Single-Use Bioreactor Application
A novel bioreactor system from PBS Biotech utilizes patented Air-Wheel technology to promote uniform and homogeneous liquid mixing, and also offers a low-shear environment for cell culture.

Industry News

Roche Inks Cell Culture Deal With BioLamina

Flip Of A Single Molecular Switch Makes An Old Brain Young

Innovative Assays For Alzheimer's Disease

SAFC Expands Irvine Facility To Add Dry Powder Media Manufacturing Capabilities

Acceleron Initiates Phase 2 Study Of ACE-536 To Treat Patients With Beta-Thalassemia

New GSP To Take Effect

Scientists Help Identify A Missing Link In Taste Perception

BioReliance Acquires Rights To Big Blue Colonies And Cell Lines From Agilent

Selfish Gene May Undermine Genome Police

NIH Develops Improved Mouse Model Of Alcoholic Liver Disease
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Featured Multimedia

Integrity™ Xpansion™ Multiplate Bioreactor Video
Integrity™ Xpansion™ Multiplate Bioreactor Video
The new Xpansion bioreactor is a scalable and flexible platform which integrates a compact, closed multiplate bioreactor with a variety of additional Integrity single-use technologies. This platform is driving industrialization in the fast-evolving field of cell therapy.

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SampleManager LIMS
SampleManager LIMS

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Thermo Scientific Brand Products, Part of Thermo Fisher

5500 Series Compact FTIR
5500 Series Compact FTIR

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Agilent Technologies

Accelerate Production Of Recombinant Biologics
Accelerate Production Of Recombinant Biologics

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SAFC

Antibody And Antibody Fragments
Antibody And Antibody Fragments

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ProMetic BioSciences Ltd

Bio-Scale Mini Cartridges
Bio-Scale Mini Cartridges

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

Biomek® NXP Laboratory Automation Workstation
Biomek® NXP Laboratory Automation Workstation

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Beckman Coulter, Inc.

Laboratory And Portable Sensors
Laboratory And Portable Sensors

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Hamilton Company

Anti GFP, Monoclonal Antibodies
Anti GFP, Monoclonal Antibodies

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Wako Laboratory Chemicals

Clarification
Clarification

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3M Purification Inc (formerly CUNO)

Secura Laboratory Balance
Secura Laboratory Balance

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Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Biotech Valves
Biotech Valves

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Aquasyn California LLC

RAMBIO®
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Applikon Biotechnology