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Strategy for the adoption of single-use technology

22 March 2018 | By

Recent technological advances are enabling manufacturers to move away from equipment that must be sterilised or consumables that are recycled or pose a risk with their transfer into cleanrooms, towards the adoption of disposable and single-use sterile items. This article considers the advantages of implementing single-use technology and outlines a…

Kaiser Optical Systems: Expert partners in Raman

20 March 2018 | By

Kaiser Optical Systems provides Raman analysers and fibre-optic probes for pharmaceutical applications ranging from laboratory discoveries to process control. Working with Kaiser is an opportunity to benefit from its experience and knowledge in Raman spectroscopy, chemometric model development, bioprocessing and pharmaceutical analysis.

Women Inspiring Pharma

15 March 2018 | By

In this series, our Science Editor Dr. Zara Kassam, interviews influential decision-makers and female leaders within the pharmaceutical industry, as they discuss their careers, the challenges they’ve faced and the importance of breaking through self-imposed barriers...

DNA microarrays and multidrug resistant bacteria

1 March 2018 | By

In parallel with the use of a wide range of antibiotics for treating infectious diseases worldwide, antimicrobial resistance has significantly increased. For this reason, the application of an advanced pangenomic technique like DNA microarray can be an effective, rapid, accurate, sensitive, specific and flexible methodology for detecting, identifying and determining…

Issue #1 2018 – Digital Version

27 February 2018 | By

In this issue: DNA microarray for detecting, identifying and determining antimicrobial-resistant bacteria; the advantages of single-use technology and a framework for an implementation strategy; risk management when designing chemical safety assessments for pharmaceutical packaging systems.

Single-use systems for biotechnology products

12 February 2018 | By Scott Rudge, COO, RMC Pharmaceutical Solutions Inc

Single-use systems have become an important tool in the development and scale up of biotechnology processes. Single-use systems save space, increase flexibility in scale and space planning and, to a large extent, eliminate cleaning costs in development and change over. However, single-use systems come with their own challenges, including complete…