biopharma

  • Biopharma’s Future: Next-Generation LC-MS Workflows for Peptide MAM

    By Scott Berger Reading Time: 7 minutes

    The development of biotherapeutics continues to accelerate with their potential to revolutionize disease treatment in areas not adequately addressed by small molecule therapeutics. However, the complexity of these macromolecules and the range of potential modification variants (attributes) creates an interesting analytical challenge for scientists tasked with their characterization and then with monitoring those attributes important…

  • Embracing Analytical Techniques Into Regulated Laboratories

    By Heather Longden Reading Time: 5 minutes

    To ensure compliance success in a changing regulatory landscape, laboratories must continually adapt. Learn how the compliant-ready Waters BioAccord LC-MS platform helps biopharma address the additional compliance challenges posed by the field’s complex analytical instruments.

  • Answering the Call with Compliance-Ready LC-MS Solutions for Oligonucleotide Analysis

    By Joe Fredette Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Oligonucleotides, or short strands of DNA or RNA, continue to increase in popularity. In addition to their essential role as primers and probes in the expanding clinical DNA testing and diagnostics market, they’re also seeing great success as new gene-based therapeutics that hold tremendous promise. With a string of recent drug approvals, including the first…

  • Boosting Biopharma Productivity with Routine LC-MS

    By Steve Preece Reading Time: 5 minutes

    As scientific advances continue to carry researchers into new arenas, it is vital that technology evolves in tandem. At Waters, we understand that it is only by leveraging fit-for-purpose technologies that researchers are able to unleash their creativity and make pioneering scientific breakthroughs. Scientists working within the rapidly growing biopharmaceutical industry are no exception. With…

  • 5 Peptide Bioanalysis Sample Preparation Challenges (and how to overcome them!)

    By Kim Haynes Reading Time: 3 minutes

    Scientists that have worked with peptides understand that peptide quantification can be challenging. One of the keys to successful peptide analysis is thorough and selective sample preparation. Sample preparation improves various aspects of chromatography and mass spectrometry analyses by utilizing solid phase extraction (SPE) to chemically separate different analytes and aid in removing the interfering…

  • Learning from User Experience

    By Laura Soar-Gosselin Reading Time: 4 minutes

    What does “intelligence” mean in the context of biopharma analysis? Given the complex setting, much of the answer comes down to the task a user needs to complete, along with the question of who exactly that user is. In developing our BioAccord System, we wanted to expand the possibilities of high-resolution LC-MS analysis from characterization…

  • Making Mass Analysis Smarter for Biopharma

    By Mike Wilson Reading Time: 3 minutes

    There’s no question that we’ve entered the age of smart technology. Your phone, your home, your refrigerator, even your light bulbs are all getting smarter. Such technologies do more and more to run themselves, removing steps and complexity, while making user interactions easier and more intuitive. They continually improve, and as they do they become…

  • The Future of Biopharmaceutical Development Just Became Brighter

    By Waters Staff Reading Time: 3 minutes

    In late January, I traveled to WCBP (Well Characterized Biological Products), an industry conference that is hosted every year by the CASSS organization. It serves as a forum that brings together biopharmaceutical industry professionals and various regulatory agencies from around the world to review and discuss the current and future state of biopharmaceutical drug development….

  • I Resolve to Get Better mAb Separations

    By Bill Warren Reading Time: 3 minutes

    We listened and learned how scientists separate mAbs and ADCs; then we designed a novel column for LC-MS bioseparations A critical step toward the prolific and successful use of monoclonal antibodies (mAb) as biotherapeutics occurred in 1988 when techniques were introduced to humanize these biomolecules, eliminating or reducing the deleterious patient side effects that previous…