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Fostering global communication to advance the emerging areas of biotechnology
The latest issue of Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry is now available.
One of the highlights of this issue is an article entitled 'Phage passage after extended processing in small-virus-retentive filters' by Scott Lute [Division of Monoclonal Antibodies, Office of Biotechnology Products, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.], Mark Bailey (Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA), Jessica Combs and Muppalla Sukumar (FDA) and Kurt Brorson (Eli Lilly). Regulatory expectations and good business practices dictate the adoption of stringent measures to assure viral safety of protein pharmaceuticals and, in this study, Lute et al. examine the behaviour of four commercial virus-retentive filters. Their studies provide strong support for the use of phage in filter-validation studies for all filter brands and reinforce the need to use virus concentrations that are sufficiently high to meet the log-reduction-value needs but not too high to alter filter behaviour.
Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry offers:
- Increasing in frequency from 9 to 12 online issues in 2007
- Fast and fair review - first decision in less than 5 weeks
- Immediate Publication - online in 5 minutes from acceptance!
- Rising Impact Factor - now 1.903
- International editorial board - Editor-in-Chief: Parviz A.Shamlou (Indianapolis)
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Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry is a recognized platform for scientists and engineers working on new molecules, technologies and techniques with novel applications in the healthcare and related sectors and welcomes original research articles on:
- New technologies for the processing of natural and recombinant biological molecules
- Novel expression systems
- New cell-culture and fermentation methods
- Healthcare contributions related to the commercialization of novel medicines
- Process engineering aspects of new therapeutic proteins
- Antibodies and genes
- Tissue engineering
- Stem-cell and cell therapeutics
- Nanotechnology
- Therapeutic proteins and enzymes
- Novel diagnostic products
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