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Learn how robust in-house analytical services and protein characterization are crucial for successful development and manufacturing programs.
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From the production floor to the shipping door, your unique clinical or commercial requirements will be fulfilled at each step of the process.
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Automate the entire cell culture process to improve workflows and make assays more reliable and reproducible.
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![3P Innovation - liquid powder FF platform]( "Liquid And Powder Fill-Finish Platform")
Part of our Evolve range, this RTU-based, automated fill-finish platform can fill liquids and powders on the same line. Ideal for dual chamber formats and reconstitution devices.
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Meaningful insights. Better results. Smarter utility management. Trimble Unity software platform offers a suite of applications and tools to support smart water management. Includes advanced workflows to map, manage, measure and improve asset performance.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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![Laminar Flow Glovebox Isolator LFGI]( "CAR-T And Laminar Flow Glovebox Isolators")
CAR-T And Laminar Flow Glovebox IsolatorsA request was made for a containment system that would protect operators during lentivirus transfer, as well as provide a controlled environment for IL-2 charging of media, bead addition, and blood bag spiking.
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![HOD UV positioned at the outlet of the PW tank]( "Disinfection For Purified Water Loop For Kamada Pharmaceuticals, Israel")
Disinfection For Purified Water Loop For Kamada Pharmaceuticals, IsraelAn Atlantium HOD™ (Hydro-Optic Disinfection) UV system was installed at the outlet of a PW tank to serve as the primary disinfection barrier, with water circulating through the system at 6m³/hr before reaching the points of use.
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![GettyImages-1830042746-pen-document-checkmark-blue-shirt]( "Achieving Excellence In Clinical Research And Quality Management")
Achieving Excellence In Clinical Research And Quality ManagementLotus Clinical Research, founded in 2001, leverages regulatory expertise and digitalization to enhance quality, automate processes, and improve compliance in biopharmaceutical clinical trials.
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![GettyImages-1293773578 Scientist Using Pipette In Medical Development Lab]( "Nanosuspension Formulation To Maximize Potency For Preclinical Studies")
Nanosuspension Formulation To Maximize Potency For Preclinical StudiesBy having a tailored proactive drug development approach, companies can accelerate their API's journey through preclinical development, ensuring the creation of a stable, high-potency formulation.
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![anticancer drug, ADC-GettyImages-2148345960]( "Improving Productivity And Purity In ADC Polishing")
Improving Productivity And Purity In ADC PolishingDiscover how a CDMO achieved 40x productivity and 15% cost savings by switching to rapid cycling membrane chromatography for ADC polishing, which helped cut process time and buffer use.
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![punjab-CS]( "Disinfection Of Borewell Water For A World- Leading Beverage Company Bottler")
Disinfection Of Borewell Water For A World- Leading Beverage Company BottlerA beverage company in Punjab, India solved their water contamination issue by implementing Atlantium's HOD UV technology, achieving effective disinfection and desired ozone levels.
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![Magnifying Glass]( "Flatiron Prospective Evidence Generation")
Flatiron Prospective Evidence GenerationExplore prospective evidence generation and pragmatic approaches that can help you address staffing challenges and the issue of complexity that is driving up the failure rate of clinical studies.
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![GettyImages-1704680401-Clipboard]( "Re-Engineering A Complex Process For FDA Compliance")
Re-Engineering A Complex Process For FDA ComplianceDiscover the strategies that helped a company navigate a complex and shifting regulatory landscape to rapidly re-engineer a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing process for FDA compliance.
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![GettyImages-1168921630 drug study]( "Novel Platform For Execution Of Pragmatic Studies Boosts Cancer Trial Efficiency")
Novel Platform For Execution Of Pragmatic Studies Boosts Cancer Trial EfficiencyLearn how Flatiron partnered with Genentech and Foundation Medicine to develop a novel platform for the execution of pragmatic studies.
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![GettyImages-1039397968 trial timing]( "Partnering For Precision In An IPF Study: Securing Timely Deliverables And Key Endpoints")
Partnering For Precision In An IPF Study: Securing Timely Deliverables And Key EndpointsA pharmaceutical company enlisted Worldwide Clinical Trials to help achieve on-time results for their Phase IIa IPF clinical trial, enabling them to manage vendors and meet challenging deadlines.
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![GettyImages-1327112218 Scientist using a laptop in a laboratory]( "Electronic Batch Reporting")
Electronic Batch ReportingLearn how a CDMO automatically created a comprehensive batch report model to drive their reporting and speed root cause identification of quality failures with an Industrial DataOps software solution.
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![1494710751-power-plant]( "Cooling Tower Crisis: How Hydrogen Peroxide Scrubbed Away The Bacteria Buildup")
Cooling Tower Crisis: How Hydrogen Peroxide Scrubbed Away The Bacteria BuildupA West coast power plant needed an immediate solution to clean its cooling tower that was fast, cost effective, and did not require removal and manual cleaning of the tower's fill material.
NEWS
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Plants Don't Just Feel The Heat – They Decode It Through A Molecular Network6/13/2025
In a new framework that could reshape how we engineer crops for a warming world, scientists have revealed that plants don't rely on a single "thermometer" to sense temperature.
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Puraffinity Signs First Commercial Agreement For Full-Scale Deployment Of Its PFAS Removal Technology6/2/2025
The agreement was signed with Envytech Solutions, the leading expert in mobile water treatment in the Nordic region and a member of the Sortera Group, which operates across the Nordics and the UK.
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Smarter Dentistry Starts Here: Muskan.AI Enhances Diagnostics, Imaging & Patient Care5/19/2025
Muskan.AI, a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence to dentistry, has reached several key milestones in its mission to transform dental care through intelligent, accessible, and clinician-focused technology.
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Brown Astronomers Create New Technique To Eliminate Signals Disrupting Sensitive Radio Telescopes2/12/2025
Astronomers sifting through data from the Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in Western Australia, found themselves confronting an unexpected mystery.
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Redex Preloaded Systems Deliver Precise Positioning For Machine Tools1/16/2025
Redex is pleased to announce its patented DualDRIVE and TwinDRIVE preloading technologies now give CNC machine designers several ways to build a zero backlash system.
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Mixing and Blending
Mixing and blending are terms that have specific meaning in the food industry. Most food processing experts use the word mixing to describe the process of combining wet and dry materials.
Blending is the term used to describe the process of combining only dry ingredients. The term blending is generally reserved for powders, flakes and granules of varying bulk densities and particle size that require gently blending and minimal contact with blender blades.
Agitation is often used synonymously with the term mixing. However, in food processing, agitation is used to ensure the mixing process to get a homogenous mix is completed faster.
Many industries require the mixing of free-flowing powders. The art of mixing involves different dilution geometries (a geometry is a way of combining unequal amounts of fine powders to ensure an equal distribution).
The geometric mix used depends on the size distribution, shape, particle density, composition and internal structures. Other properties include flow ability, bulk density, mixture quality, dustiness and properties of segregation.
Industrial mixers are used to do the blending and mixing. The shape and hardness of the materials being mixed affects the horsepower required to run the mixer. The type of mixer used in a production line varies depending on the materials that need to be mixed or blended. Paddle mixers are often the best choice for production line mixing because they are easy to clean, have less surface area, and have a minimal number of parts.
Mixing and blending is generally a sub-process within an overall process cycle so when placing a mixer it is important to consider how it integrates into the whole system. That includes impacts to both upstream and downstream product handling.