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IWD: Spotlight on women in life sciences

pharmaphorum

How did you get into life sciences? After a few years, I decided I wanted to move into the commercial side of the business, so I completed an MBA and went on to hold various positions in Corporate Business Development, Life Science and Healthcare. What has your career path been? Ultimately, this has to start at school.

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Guide to using AAV vectors in gene therapy

Drug Discovery World

In 2023, DDW hosted a webinar, ‘A comprehensive guide to using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors in gene therapy’, supported by Azenta Life Sciences. Questions were fielded from the audience, which included: What analysis will be performed to evaluate host or other DNA contamination? Why are those important?

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Guide to using AAV vectors in gene therapy

Drug Discovery World

Earlier this year, DDW hosted a webinar, ‘A comprehensive guide to using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors in gene therapy’, supported by Azenta Life Sciences. Questions were fielded from the audience, which included: What analysis will be performed to evaluate host or other DNA contamination?

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The Utility of Liquid Biopsy in Oncology Clinical Trials

XTalks

Liquid biopsy tests in oncology involve isolating entities such as circulating tumor cells (CTC), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and tumor-derived exosomes. However, Dr. Bahassi reported that the selection of CTCs using this method is often not very efficient and the CTC population is usually highly contaminated with leukocytes.

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An Overview of HBSM Trends & Practices

Cloudbyz

Before deploying collected samples for a project, small portions from those samples are retained as a precautionary measure, to account for any potential destruction or contamination of the originally designated portions of the samples. Let’s use the easiest example of a sample. But a new trend is making changes to this model.

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Modernizing cell culture processes for the next wave of genomic medicine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The established method for this process is a triple transfection using three different DNA plasmids. Cytiva and the Drop logo are trademarks of Life Sciences IP Holdings Corp. ELEVECTA is a trademark of Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC or an affiliate doing business as Cytiva. Biores Open Access.

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Advances in cell line development

Drug Discovery World

The market for cell line development is currently rising due to an increased focus by the life sciences sector on biopharmaceuticals and targeted therapies. He has worked in life sciences and pharmaceutical B2B publishing for seven years and was previously Editor of European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer.