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Ensuring Quality and Efficacy of GLP-1 Agonists: Analytical Challenges and Solutions in Therapeutic Peptide Production

By Ryan Cheu / June 24, 2024

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists represent an exciting class of drugs that have gained significant attention in recent years for their…

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Antibody Drug Conjugates Q&A: A Novel Approach to Drug Delivery in Oncology

By Prajita Pandey / June 6, 2024

What is an antibody drug conjugate? An antibody drug conjugate (ADC) is an innovative drug modality that consists of three…

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Native Mass Spectrometry (Native-MS) for Aggregate and Charge Variant Analysis

By Prajita Pandey / April 29, 2024

Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and ion exchange chromatography (IEX) are traditional methods utilized for characterizing biotherapeutics under non-denaturing conditions. The…

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A Guide to Quantitative NMR (qNMR)

By Ryan Cheu / February 9, 2024

Quantitative NMR (qNMR) stands as a robust method for gauging pharmaceutical purity. In the realm of analytical chemistry, nuclear magnetic…

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The Past, Present and Future of ADCs

By Prajita Pandey / January 25, 2024

ADCs, short for antibody-drug conjugates, consist of three essential components: a monoclonal antibody (mAb), a linker molecule, and a small…

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Microbial Warriors: A New Hope in the Fight Against Cancer

By Janet Liu / September 26, 2023

Cancer is a complex disease that requires a multifaceted approach to treatment in order to prevent regression. In the past,…

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Analytical Method Development and Validation

By Ryan Cheu / March 7, 2023

Method development and validation are essential components of drug development and chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC). The goal of method…

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Characterization of Biologic Drugs: An Overview

By Prajita Pandey / January 4, 2023

Intact Mass and Subunit Fragment Analyses The LC-MS analyses of the intact and subunit biologic molecules are simple analyses which…

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The Very Standard Kilogram

By Hubert Lin / November 1, 2022

Gravimetry, the science of measuring weight, plays a critical role in analytical sciences. All analytical chemistry labs are equipped with…

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Infection by Site

By Janet Liu / September 12, 2022

Choosing the Right Bacteria and Antibiotic in Novel Anti-infective Discovery The development of new drugs to treat infectious diseases requires…

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