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 ...

From pasture to patient: Scientists distill cow’s milk into nano-capsules for drug delivery

New method to purify exosomes from cow's milk for nano-sized drug delivery capsules - Virginia Tech spin-out company formed

25-Aug-2021 - Exosomes are nano-sized biological capsules that cells produce to protect and courier delicate molecules throughout the body. The capsules are hardy enough to withstand enzymatic breakdown, as well as acidic and temperature fluctuations in the gut and bloodstream, making them a prime candidate ...

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 ...

Purification specialist BIA Separations to become part of Sartorius

BIA Separations will be Sartorius’ center of excellence for purification of cell and gene therapeutics

05-Oct-2020 - Sartorius announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to merge purification specialist BIA Separations into its subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech in a transaction totaling 360 million euros of which 240 million euros will be paid in cash and 120 million euros in Sartorius Stedim Biotech ...

Chemistry-for-Healthcare Start-up secures seed investment

18-Sep-2019 - Belyntic, a Berlin-based chemistry-for-healthcare startup and developer of the Peptide Easy Clean (PEC) purification technology, has completed its seed financing round amounting to €1.3 million. The funding is led by the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB), with the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) also ...

'Coffee filter' helps make new cancer drug Z-endoxifen 1,000 times cheaper

Thorough analysis of synthesis reveals much cheaper purification route

09-Apr-2018 - Making drugs cheaper doesn't always require pricey investments. A joint initiative by researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Dutch company Syncom BV and the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital proves just that. What started out as a Bachelor project at TU/e laid the ...