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The Utility of Liquid Biopsy in Oncology Clinical Trials

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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. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles that contain molecular cargoes (such as various proteins, RNAs and DNAs) specific to the origin cell.

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Packaging Solutions for Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices: Insights and Considerations

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This highly sensitive method even works to detect package defects clogged by product formulation proteins or salts, explains Liss. E&L testing is performed to substantiate that packaging materials will not contaminate the drug product over a product’s shelf life. These compounds thus become a part of the drug matrix.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

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The company’s candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, is a synthetic messenger RNA that encodes the stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The University of Oxford/AstraZeneca partnership, in turn, is testing a viral-vectored coronavirus vaccine that again expresses the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus.