Laboratory Equipment and Instruments

The company has built a fit-for-purpose liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) system to streamline analytical monitoring tests for biopharmaceuticals.

Tornado Spectral Systems, winner of the 2018 CPhI Excellence in Pharma Award for Analysis, Testing, and Quality Control, discusses real-time process measurement for biopharmaceutical and small-molecule drug manufacturing.

A new plasma B cell antibody discovery workflow launched by Berkeley Lights enables the shortening of antibody drug discovery from month to a day.

The new reagents are designed to support clinical-phase and commercialization stages of cell and gene therapy production and to enhance DNA transfection.

The Steritest NEO device from MilliporeSigma provides safer pharmaceutical product testing through additional features.

The company will use GE Healthcare’s off-the-shelf KUBio biologics factory, which is expected to start operations in 2020, to provide development and manufacturing for early- to late-clinical and early-commercial manufacturing stages.

Integration of two separate chromatography data systems boosts workflow efficiency.

Charles River Laboratories has announced a data expansion in its compendium of tumor models for oncology drug R&D.

A new, high-throughput microplate reader cuts down on screening time and works faster than standard ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography processes.

The partnership, co-funded by Enterprise Ireland, will develop technologies for monitoring the quality of biopharma processes.

The contract research organization has increased its US-based early phase clinical capacity and doubled its specialty lab space.

Industry–academia collaborations seek to address unmet needs in measurement science.

Collaborative robots work beside laboratory employees to improve efficiency in pharmaceutical research and quality control labs.

The testing of raw materials is essential as raw material quality determines the outcome of biologic product quality.

By adapting techniques from other sciences-and exploring better tools for biologics drug development-researchers are addressing challenges of protein characterization.

If a vortex mixer produces too much energy during sample preparation for particle size analysis, the size and morphology of particles can change. A study compares the applied shear to sample suspensions of ibuprofen to observe the effects of applied shear on the particle size distribution.

As biopharma companies rapidly change their focus, they may lack the laboratory space, instrumentation, and the scientific knowledge to support biologics research.

This article discusses why it is important to apply risk analysis, QbD, and DoE in the development of analytical methods.

Rather than isolating the user in a virtual world, mixed reality allows contextualized data to be shared in real time, improving assays, standard operating procedures, workflows, and overall tech transfer.

Stream Bio’s Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticle products are a new generation of novel molecular bioimaging probes for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

Cytek Biosciences’ Northern Lights series of advanced flow cytometry systems brings reagent and application flexibility to more labs while enhancing performance.

GiroNEX’s precision powder dispensing technology is expected to enable a new range of automated “dispense and weigh” systems for use in R&D and other lab-based applications.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Savant SpeedVac systems now offer preset and custom-made programs for improved application flexibility.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has entered into a collaboration with Symphogen to deliver validated, platform workflows for simplified characterisation and quality monitoring of complex therapeutic proteins.

This new partnership provides access to Distributed Bio’s antibody discovery platforms.

The company has broken ground on the construction of a new laboratory space.

he acquisition expands the company’s formulation and analytical R&D services.

The company introduced a new approach to chemical imaging that provides enhanced clarity.

Research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that small chips could replace standard lab-scale spectrometry equipment for many applications.

Collaborative robots work beside laboratory employees to improve efficiency in pharmaceutical research and quality control labs.