Waters and Sartorius collaborate

Companies to help bioprocess scientists accelerate clone selection and process development

28-Oct-2021 - Waters Corporation and Sartorius announced they will partner to provide bioprocess experts with direct access to high-quality mass spectrometry (MS) data to accelerate the speed and improve the accuracy of biopharmaceutical process development. Sartorius and Waters will partner to implement the ...

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Acquires Microbioreactor Manufacturer m2p-labs

17-Nov-2020 - Beckman Coulter Life Sciences signed a definitive agreement to acquire m2p-labs, a privately held, microbioreactor manufacturer based in Baesweiler, Germany. m2p-labs is best known for its transformative BioLector plate-based microbioreactors, which support automated solutions for screening and ...

Use of low-energy electrons for innovative biotechnology processes

21-Feb-2020 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has been utilizing electron-beam technology for decades in the development of cleaning, sterilization, and surface-modification processes and systems. Fraunhofer researchers from the Medical and ...

Microfluidic molecular exchanger helps control therapeutic cell manufacturing

15-Oct-2018 - Researchers have demonstrated an integrated technique for monitoring specific biomolecules - such as growth factors - that could indicate the health of living cell cultures produced for the burgeoning field of cell-based therapeutics. Using microfluidic technology to advance the preparation of ...

Reaction calorimetry in microreactors

12-Jun-2018 - At Achema 2018 the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology will demonstrate the latest gen-eration of continuous reaction calorimeters. These permit rapid screening of thermokinetic data, making kinetic constants and safety-relevant data available in the early stages of process ...

Sustainable production of pharmaceutical compounds

SmartCell project: Novel plant biotechnology

10-Apr-2014 - European scientists have made ground-breaking discoveries for improving the efficiency of the production of pharmaceuticals through plant biotechnology. Biotechnological production offers a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to the chemical synthesis of rare and complex ...

Roomy cages built from DNA

Self-assembling cages are the largest standalone 3-D DNA structures yet, and could one day deliver drugs, or house tiny bioreactors or photonic devices

17-Mar-2014 - Move over, nanotechnologists, and make room for the biggest of the small. Scientists at the Harvard's Wyss Institute have built a set of self-assembling DNA cages one-tenth as wide as a bacterium. The structures are some of the largest and most complex structures ever constructed solely from DNA, ...

Bright future ahead for biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing

New market insight uncovers the latest technology trends and strategic approaches for biopharma CMOs

02-Oct-2013 - Considerable growth opportunities lie ahead for biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs). With blockbuster biologics worth over $100 billion due to lose patent protection by 2019, the global biosimilars market is projected to grow at a robust compound annual growth rate ...

Subitec raises 4.5 m euros in second round financing

18-Jul-2012 - Subitec GmbH, a manufacturer of fully automated algae photobioreactors, hascloseda second round of financing. The CleantechFonds of eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, Fraunhofer Venture, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) [High-Tech Start-Up Fund] and KfWBankengruppe’s ERP-Startfonds [ERP Start ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Awarded Patent for Cell Factory System

02-Feb-2012 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has been awarded a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on its Thermo Scientific Nunc Cell Factory System with Active Gassing, recognizing the device’s unique gas distribution system. Developed for cells that require a high or low ...