Culture in Biological Technology

Med Discovery and Laborium Biopharma Extend Their Development Partnership to Include Mammalian Cell Culture Processes and Clinical Manufacturing for All Products in Med Discovery's Portfolio

Med Discovery SA, a specialized protein-based therapeutics oncology company, is proud to announce that they have extended their global partnership agreement with Laborium Biopharma, a subsidiary of Validapro BioSciences Inc. to encompass the cell culture process development and clinical manufactu...

Experts at Healthcare Conference Support Investments in the Health of Work Culture and Care Processes, Not Just Technology

ORLANDO, Florida, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- - Attendees at The 18th CPM Resource Center Conference Hear Recommendations for Change in the Stimulus Plan Era The healthcare industry has a unique opportunity to make valuable use of the billions allotted for healthcare information tech...

InVitria Among Leading Innovators in Cell Culture Media According to Top Biotechnology Publication

The Company's groundbreaking products are featured in Genetic Engineering News for delivering the promise of safety without sacrificing productivity and performance. Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) January 22, 2009 -- InVitria's product line was featured in the Jan. 15, 2009 e...

InVitria's Cell Culture Media Components Showcased at WilBio's 2008 Cell Engineering Meeting

International supplier of animal free, productivity enhancing cell culture media components offers its customers the chance to improve performance of cell culture development and bioproduction. Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) December 18, 2008 -- The 2008 Cell Engineering Conf...

PharmSource and BioProcess Technology Consultants Announce Publication of New Market Report: Cell Culture Manufacturing Capacity: Trends and Outlook through 2013

Major biopharmaceutical companies with substantial internal mammalian cell culture capability are forecast to have adequate internal manufacturing capacity. Contract mammalian cell culture manufacturers (CMOs) however, are likely to feel the pressure of increased utilization rates. For these CMOs...

Cell/Tissue Culture Supplies Market to Reach $4.97 Billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts

Advances in biotechnology and life science research coupled with broader range of application areas are expected to drive growth in the cell/tissue culture market. Growth is likely to be fueled by heightened interest in biopharmaceutical therapeutics, human and veterinary vaccine applications, an...

InVitria Touts Product Advantages at Cambridge's Cell Culture Conference

FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- InVitria ( http://www.InVitria.com ) addressed attendees at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's 4th Annual "Optimizing Cell Culture Development" Conference on September 15-16 in Boston, Massachusetts and announced its most recent results optimizing ce...

KGI Offers Mammalian Cell Culture Program for Biotech Industry Professionals

CLAREMONT, Calif., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) today announced that it will conduct a five-day program for industry professionals to learn the latest developments in mammalian cell culture, from November 2-7, 2008. "Mammalian cell biotechnology has undergone explos...

InVitria Sponsors Cambridge Healthtech's Optimizing Cell Culture Development Conference

FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- InVitria ( http://www.invitria.com ), a leading global supplier of animal free products that enhance productivity, safety and time to market for companies in the biopharmaceutical, cell culture, life science research and diagnostics industry, announ...

Improved culture system for hepatitis C virus infection

A University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researcher has developed the first tissue culture of normal, human liver cells that can model infection with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and provide a realistic environment to evaluate possible treatments. The novel cell line, described in ...

Rentschler Biotechnologie Extends Capacities for Mammalian Cell Culture Manufacturing

Laupheim, Germany – June 20, 2008 / b3c newswire /  - Rentschler Biotechnologie, a leading full-service contract manufacturing organization (CMO) for the development and production of biopharmaceuticals in mammalian cells, started operation of a 2,500 L multi-process production suite....

A Community's Fight to Preserve its Historical and Rural Culture in Virginia: Biotechnology CEO Gets Involved

BOSTON, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Judith K. Gwathmey VMD, Ph.D., FACC, FAHA has served as Chief Executive and Chief Scientific Officer of Gwathmey, Inc. for twelve years. Gwathmey, Inc. is an internationally recognized leader in providing pre-clinical testing services for evaluation of lead com...

New Study Finds Growth Factor Boosts Productivity in Mammalian Cell Culture

Leading researchers in academia and industry reveal powerful effects of recombinant lactoferrin (tradename: Lacromin) in mammalian cell culture leading to a significant boost in productivity. FORT COLLINS, Colo., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A recently published study in the scientific...

InVitria's Cellastim Delivers Superior Results in Mammalian Cell Culture

FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Steve Pettit, Director of the company's Cell Culture Group, presented results of InVitria's ( http://www.InVitria.com ) Cellastim in mammalian cell culture at the 2008 BioProcess International Conference in Anaheim, California this week. "Cellast...

Athletics, pop culture and the arts

MADISON The bread and butter of Wisconsins economic growth will be getting the big things right: Finding enough investment capital to transfer our best technology to the marketplace, controlling taxes and regulation, maintaining a strong education system, and ensuring theres a 21st century infrast...

Why corporate culture counts

Researchers and consultants often point out that real change in how things are done inside a corporation cannot happen unless its culture is changed first. But corporate culture is a difficult thing to pin down and even harder to change because it reflects the implicit values, norms and behaviors...

New CEO at TDS on creating a culture of innovation (Part 2)

Wittwer In Part one of our exclusive interview with new TDS Telecom CEO Dave Wittwer, he addressed the role information technology will play in transforming TDS from a phone company to a broadband provider. In this second part of the interview, he addresses the need to drive innovation, and e...

Changes to U.S. patent law must nurture our culture of innovation

Madison, Wis. - Be very afraid when a member of Congress announces that a major reason to reform the U.S. patent system is that no one else in the world does it like us. Even during an era when America-bashing is back in vogue, there are certain things this country does well - and has always...

Inoculation, Growth & Harvesting in a New Easy-to-Use Disposable Cell Culture System

Introduction New Brunswick Scientific now offers a new labor-saving device for producing mg quantities of proteins, virus or cell mass from anchorage-dependent or suspension cultures. More productive than traditional roller bottles, spin...

Gram Quantities of MAb Produced with Simple Bioreactor in Serum-Free Perfusion Culture Replacing Ascitic Fluid Production

By J. Doyle, L. Johnstone and L. Cottis AGEN Biomedical Ltd. Queensland, Australia http://www.agen.com.au The CelliGen Plus immobilized-bed perfusion was investigated as a means for producing large quantities of MAb from a hyb...

Hybridoma Cell Culture Application Using a BioFlo 110 Benchtop Bioreactor

Introduction This Application Report is one in a series documenting simple protocols for culturing cells in a BioFlo 110 benchtop fermentor/bioreactor system. The modular BioFlo 110 is offered with an extensive choice of vessels, impelle...

Insect Cell Culture Using a BioFlo 110 Benchtop Bioreactor

Introduction This Application Report is one in a series documenting simple protocols for culturing cells in a BioFlo 110 benchtop fermentor/bioreactor system. The modular BioFlo 110 is offered with a variety of vessels, impellers and c...

CHO Cell Culture Application Using a BioFlo 110 Benchtop Bioreactor

Introduction This Application Report is one in a series documenting simple protocols for culturing cells in a BioFlo 110 benchtop fermentor/bioreactor system. The modular BioFlo 110 is offered with an extensive choice of vessels, impelle...

Berbees success is based on companys history and culture

MADISON, Wis. Berbee Information Networks Corp . President Paul Shain spoke on his companys history and culture March 31 as part of Accelerate Madisons monthly meeting. According to Shain, Berbees unique principles and culture allowed it to flourish during the aftermath of the dot-com era as ot...

Entrepreneurs Conference to focus on strategies, tools and culture

MILWAUKEE Turning big ideas into even bigger businesses is the theme of the second-annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference to be held June 1-2 in Milwaukee, conference organizers announced Wednesday. The event is designed to encourage and foster entrepreneurial growth in Wisconsin. We must ...

Dont rely on information technology to change corporate culture

With electronic productivity and communications tools now ubiquitous, organizations of all types are eager to harness their potential to promote more effective communication and collaboration among workers. While these new capabilities have an important role in organizations, the belief that tech...

Glossary for The BioPharm Guide to Fermentation and Cell Culture

Many of these terms have more general definitions as well. Those given here are specific to their application in cell culture and fermentation. absorption Removing a particular antibody or antigen from a sample (from serum, for example) by a...

The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture

Part VI: Freezing and viability staining of cells Welcome to the last of a series of articles providing useful hints for culturing animal cells. This article contains considerations for freezing and viability staining...

The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture

Part IV: Essential protocols for animal cell culture Welcome to the next of our series of articles aimed at providing useful hints for culturing animal cells. This article contains useful protocols for animal cell cul...

The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture

Part III: Cell culture conditions Welcome to the third of a series of articles providing useful hints for culturing animal cells. This article describes general considerations for cell culture conditions. The series ...

The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture

Part V: Counting cells Welcome to the fifth of a series of articles providing useful hints for culturing animal cells. This article contains considerations for counting cells. This protocol has been...

The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture

Part II: Safety and handling considerations for animal cell culture Welcome to the second of a new series of articles aimed at providing useful hints for culturing animal cells. This article describes considerations f...

The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture

Part I: Introduction to animal cell culture Welcome to a new series of articles aimed at providing useful hints for culturing animal cells (i.e., cells derived from higher eukaryotes such as mammals, birds, and insect...

Omnio Healer Selects Eden Biodesign for cGMP Production of its Candidate Wound Healing and Anti-Infection Treatments

...g drug candidates with potent pro-inflammatory functions. The agreement with Eden Biodesign relates to the expression of proteins using mammalian cell culture for use against several clinical indications, but primarily for studies relating to chronic eardrum wounds. Omnio Healer selected Eden Biodesig...

SmartGene's Services for Faster, More Precise Identification of Bacteria and Fungi to be Used by The Johns Hopkins Hospital

...nd precise identification of bacterial and fungal pathogens by sequence analysis. Some bacteria and fungi do not grow quickly or well enough in culture to support timely, accurate identification using conventional microbiology techniques. For this reason, identification based on gene sequencing is oft...

Medicago's H1N1 pandemic vaccine candidate shows positive response in 100% of vaccinated animals after a single dose

...sed system and has produced good yields." Vaccine makers currently developing vaccine candidates for the pandemic swine flu using egg-based and cell culture technologies have advised the WHO that the influenza seed strain used to produce their new vaccine is not growing well and therefore giving poor antig...

Sanofi-aventis Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

...sed on patient needs. Streamlined organizational structures will make our R&D more flexible and entrepreneurial. The model will also promote a new culture open to external collaboration. In line with this approach, a number of alliances were agreed during the period, while existing alliances bore fruit. ...

SAFC Biosciences(R) Defines Hydrolysate Components That Enhance Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cell Line Protein Production

...at it has developed a new, chemically defined cell culture supplement based on the characterization of hydrol...: SAFC Biosciences is a leading provider of cell culture materials and development services for upstream an...g an integrated services package in mammalian cell culture media development, along with analytical and regul...

Spectrum Announces Fetal Bovine Serum Product Line

... new line of premium quality Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) ideal for many cell culture applications. In partnership with an established biotechnology supplie...a source for many of the reagents, lab supplies, and equipment used in cell culture applications, so it makes sense for us to offer a broad selection of growth...

Irvine Scientific Announced Today a New Distribution Partnership With Prodimed

... Irvine Scientific, a subsidiary of Japan Energy Corporation, is a leading provider and manufacturer of medical devices and of a wide range of cell culture media. Irvine Scientific is a technology leader in the science of Vitrification with a worldwide franchise in Assisted Reproductive Technology. ...