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Understanding Biosafety Levels
Compliance with biosafety levels (BSLs) is crucial in ensuring that your laboratories meet stringent standards to protect staff and prevent the escape of biological agents.
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Vial Breakage During Lyophilization: Root Causes And Mitigation10/16/2024
Learn how controlling freezing rates, using specialized vials, and employing optimized stoppering techniques can reduce the risk of vial breakage during lyophilization and ensure high product quality.
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Normalized Data In Microbial Continuous Monitoring7/24/2025
Learn how EU GMP Annex 1 (2022) redefines cleanroom air monitoring standards and emphasizes continuous viable sampling in Grade A and B environments to ensure aseptic integrity and compliance.
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Leveraging Life Sciences Data For Intelligent Decision-Making2/18/2025
Industry 4.0 drives life sciences to prioritize data-driven decision-making by integrating advanced technologies in QMS. Discover how modern data management can improve compliance.
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Manufacturing Challenges With High Concentration Biologics3/18/2024
Explore key process operations, some of the challenges in manufacturing high-concentration biologics, and factors to consider for process optimization.
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The Impact Of Annex 1 (2022) On Sterility Assurance4/24/2025
Airflow visualization studies, crucial for GMP compliance, validate unidirectional airflow effectiveness in contamination control. Discover their enhanced role in quality by design and revised Annex 1 guidelines.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
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Pfizer Strengthens Obesity Foothold With Metsera Acquisition
After discouraging efforts to bring two oral obesity drugs to market—danuglipron and lotiglipron—this acquisition launches Pfizer back into the obesity therapeutic game.
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FDA Cracks Down On GLP-1 Imports
GLP-1 bulk drug substances must be detained without physical examination (DWPE) unless they are on a list (Green List) of approved foreign GLP-1 manufacturers.
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Oregon Court Upholds Drug Price Transparency Law
The law was first enacted in 2018, followed by a lawsuit by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) in 2019, claiming an infringement of free speech for pharmaceutical companies and violation of public property. PhRMA asked the court to bar Oregon from enforcing the law.
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Spray Drying Market Poised To Nearly Double By 2033
The growth of the spray drying market is attributed to demand for enhanced stability, bioavailability and solubility of poorly soluble drugs.
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AbbVie Enters Psychedelic Market With Bretisilocin Acquisition
Bretisilocin is a next-generation psychedelic compound (5-HT2A receptor agonist and 5-HT releaser) designed to exert a shorter duration of psychoactive experience, while retaining an extended therapeutic benefit
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Ritedose Scales Operations With $17M Laboratory Expansion9/25/2025
Ritedose is investing $17M to expand its cGMP labs, adding a 10,000 sq. ft. analytical chemistry facility and a 6,000 sq. ft. microbiology expansion to boost drug development and CDMO capabilities.
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PolyPeptide Strengthens Global Peptide Production With Modular Facility Design Approach9/24/2025
PolyPeptide Group AG (SIX: PPGN), a specialized, global CDMO for peptide-based active pharmaceutical ingredients, today announced the successful delivery and installation of pre-built modules at its Malmö, Sweden facility. This marks a key milestone in the company’s modular expansion project at the site, which aims to double its solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) capacity.
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$60M Series B Financing Propels Avenzo Therapeutics Forward9/24/2025
Avenzo Therapeutics, Inc. (“Avenzo”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation oncology therapies, today announced the closing of a $60 million Series B financing. This funding, which follows Avenzo’s $386 million Series A/A-1 financing announced in November 2024, brings the total capital raised to $446 million. The proceeds will be used to support the advancement of Avenzo’s pipeline of potential best-in-class oncology drug candidates.
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Groninger Acquires Isolator And Cleanroom OEM Reinraumtechnik Ulm9/18/2025
With this strategic move, the family-owned company headquartered in Crailsheim not only expands its technological portfolio but also strengthens its expertise in a field that is crucial to the pharmaceutical industry: cleanroom and isolator technology.
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GSK Commits $30B To U.S. R&D And Drug Manufacturing Expansion9/17/2025
GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today announced plans to invest $30 billion across the United States in research and development and supply chain infrastructure over the next five years.