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Control strategy could facilitate faster bioburden detection
According to the paper, the control strategy for rapid bioburden testing provides manufacturers with enhanced capabilities for process control.
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Live biotherapeutic products: bridging innovations and challenges in manufacturing
In our third instalment of EPR's exclusive ‘Microbiome therapeutics: microscope to medicine’ series, Tue Hodal, Chief Technology Officer and Lorenz Rindisbacher, Chief Quality Officer, Bacthera, explore how live biotherapeutic products (LBPs) represent a transformative shift in medicine, highlighting their unique challenges and potential.
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Achieving optimal advanced process control in bioproduction
Model Predictive Control (MPC) “stands out as a beacon of advanced control” in continuous manufacturing, through its ability to enhance efficacy within bioproduction, research suggests.
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Innovative technologies facilitate novel contamination-detection method
A new 24-hour sterility testing method combining nanopore sequencing and machine learning could revolutionise sterility assurance in biopharmaceutical manufacturing of cell therapies.
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Fully instrumented 3D printed small-scale bioreactor developed
To support upstream bioprocess development, a study has demonstrated real-time monitoring of the growth phase in a 3D printed, single-use bioreactor.
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Innovative PAT-based filtration strategy reported for continuous biomanufacturing
The PAT-based approach is the first of its kind to prevent membrane fouling when using a robust single-pass tangential flow filtration (SP-TFF) operation in bioprocessing, according to a paper.
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CRISPR-based microbial gene therapy delivers promise
A microbial gene therapy can “eliminate antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains in the gut”, according to first-in-human study interim results.
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Microbial fermentation tech market to exceed $56.9b by 2033
Trends such as sustainability and technological advances like AI are helping to boost the microbial fermentation technology market, a report says.
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Whole genome sequencing and analysis of live biotherapeutic products
Here, Snehit Satish Mhatre and Michael Timm of Eurofins discuss considerations and recommendations for the testing of live biotherapeutic products.
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Large bacterial culture volumes can be filtered without centrifuge
The study observed that using a modified vacuum filtration system assisted in the filtration of large volumes of bacterial cultures, removing the need for centrifuges.
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Accelerating timelines for development and manufacture of multi-specific antibodies
The critical need to rapidly develop new biological therapeutics was emphasised during the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting a sea-change in the speed with which development of complex biological medicines occurs. In parallel, the increasing demand for new molecular formats, such as multi-specific antibodies, to tackle a wide range of disease modalities…
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WuXi Biologics launches cGMP microbial products facility in Hangzhou
China’s WuXi Biologics - a contract research, development and manufacturing organisation (CRDMO) - has launched a facility in Hangzhou for cGMP manufacturing of microbial-derived products.
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New research could allow bioproduction of toxic compounds
A paper shows implementing riboregulated switchable feedback promoters enables cells to produce the precursors for potentially toxic chemotherapeutic and anti-malarial drugs.
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Microbial contract biomanufacturing market to be worth $9.3 billion by 2030
A new analysis suggests that Europe and North America will capture more than 80 percent of the $9.3 billion market by 2030.
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On-demand webinar: Pyrogenic Risk in Pharma Process Webinar – from bioburden to pyrogens
Microbial risk in pharmaceutical process is not limited to living microorganisms and intact microbial cells.
