Fermentation revolution?

Trash becomes treasure as bio-waste yields valuable acetone and isopropanol

07-Feb-2024 - In a major stride towards sustainable industrial fermentation, a team of researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands, has unveiled pioneering advancements in the purification of isopropanol and acetone from the fermentation of waste gases. The study, published in ...

Mesa Labs Acquires Belyntic’s Peptide Purification Business

21-Nov-2022 - Mesa Laboratories, Inc. announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets (other than current assets) and certain liabilities related to Belyntic GmbH’s peptide purification business. The transaction price and near-term financial impact are not material to Mesa’s ongoing ...

Tosoh to Increase Production Capacity of Separation and Purification Media

23-Aug-2022 - Tosoh Corporation has announced it will increase the production capacity of separation and purification media TOYOPEARL®and TSKgel®PW at its Nanyo Complex (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture) in response to the growing demand for antibody and oligonucleotide drug purification. Separation and ...

Innovative Research on Manufacturing of Viral Vaccines and Gene Therapies

"Innovation Prize 2021 of the German BioRegions" awarded to ContiVir

01-Dec-2021 - ContiVir, a planned spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems Magdeburg, has been awarded the 2021 "Innovation Prize of the German BioRegions" with regard to their research on and development of a purification tool to tackle vaccine bottlenecks. This ...

Spin-off offers purification tool to tackle viral gene therapy manufacturing bottlenecks

Higher speed and increased yield thanks to membrane-based steric exclusion chromatography

22-Jun-2021 - ContiVir, a spin-off project at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems Magdeburg, has published results in the scientific journal Human Gene Therapy detailing the purification of Adeno-associated virus (AAV) using membrane-based steric exclusion chromatography (SXC), a ...

Sartorius acquires filtration expert

Transaction provides a complementary fit with Sartorius’ separation portfolio, adding crossflow filtration units for easy-to-use bioprocessing devices

10-Dec-2020 - The life science company Sartorius acquired U.S.‑based purification expert WaterSepBioSeparations LLC through its subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech. WaterSep BioSeparations develops, manufactures and markets hollow‑fiber membrane devices and pre-sterilized assemblies for upstream and downstream ...

GE Healthcare acquires bioprocessing start-up

Obtaining nanofiber-based platform purification technology for biopharmaceutical production

30-Nov-2017 - GE Healthcare has completed the acquisition of Puridify, a bioprocessing start-up that is developing a nanofiber-based platform purification technology for biopharmaceutical production. Puridify’s technology, FibroSelect, is complementary to the bead resins and chromatography membranes used today ...

Merck Provides Update on Program to Improve Biopharmaceutical Downstream Processing

28-Sep-2017 - Merck announced an update on its participation in Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation, to improve biopharmaceutical downstream processing. The nextBioPharmDSP, a consortium of seven public and private organizations, is developing a more efficient, cost-effective and ...

Supramolecular protein fishing with molecular baits

03-Mar-2017 - Scientists from the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC) successfully isolated a cancer-prone protein by fishing out the proteins using 'molecular bait'. Cancer, according to the American Cancer Society, affects 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women, with prostate and breast cancer the most common ...

Fluorescence dyes from the pressure cooker

01-Feb-2017 - The laboratory of Dr. Miriam M. Unterlass at the Institute of Materials Chemistry at TU Wien has just reported the synthesis of more than 20 different perylene bisimide dyes. This is not impressive per se. The way they prepare these compounds is though: Conventionally, perylene bisimides are ...