Infographic: What’s the Best Column for Polar Compound Retention?

Infographic: What’s the Best Column for Polar Compound Retention?

Retaining and separating highly polar, water-soluble organic compounds has been a challenge for separations scientists who prefer reversed-phase chromatography as their technique of choice. See how Waters has addressed these analytical challenges with our T3 columns.

Oligo-mania! Interest in Oligonucleotides Continues to Rise

Oligo-mania! Interest in Oligonucleotides Continues to Rise

From oligonucleotides and peptides to messenger RNA and CRISPR, ’tides are enjoying their time in the sun A year ago we wrote how oligonucleotide therapeutic development, which had seen a huge wave of investment in the late 1990s and early 2000s followed by a precipitous decline in the late 2000s, was once again on the…

A CRO Leads the Way for Biotherapeutics Amid its Own ‘Field of Dreams’

A CRO Leads the Way for Biotherapeutics Amid its Own ‘Field of Dreams’

“If You Build it, He Will Come” Urged on by a voice no one else could hear, Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner in the movie Field of Dreams, cleared a few acres of corn to build a baseball field. Shortly after, magical things began to happen. When you first set eyes on the headquarters…

Analytical Tools for Developing Biosimilars: Part 3, Glycosylation, Aggregation, and Charge Variants

Analytical Tools for Developing Biosimilars: Part 3, Glycosylation, Aggregation, and Charge Variants

In biotherapeutics, the state of glycosylation has a direct and pronounced effect of the structure, stability, serum half-life, immunogeneicity and bioactivity of the molecule, and constitutes a critical quality attribute (CQA). In our study, characterizing and comparing the glycosylation profile of infliximab began by examining the glycosylation profiles from intact and reduced subunit mass data.

How Analytical Technologies Support the Development of Biosimilar Drugs

How Analytical Technologies Support the Development of Biosimilar Drugs

Advancements in High-Resolution Analytics for the Characterization of Innovator and Biosimilar Therapeutics As the pharmaceutical industry continues to evolve its focus from small-molecule drugs to balanced product portfolios that include protein therapeutics, analytical chemists are increasingly challenged to produce routine and automated characterization workflows that move innovator and biosimilar biopharmaceutical products forward through development and…

Infographic: Large Molecules Have a 2X Greater FDA Approval Rate Than Small Molecule Drugs

Infographic: Large Molecules Have a 2X Greater FDA Approval Rate Than Small Molecule Drugs

It’s no surprise that pharma is ‘Thinking Large’ Large molecules are dominating pharma sales and FDA approvals. At the end of 2015, seven of the top 10 best-selling prescription drugs were large molecules. According to a 2014 article in Nature, the overall approval rate for small and large molecule therapeutics is nearly 10% (comprised of lead and secondary…

Waters and BioanalysisZone are Highlighting our Bioanalytical Chemists

Waters and BioanalysisZone are Highlighting our Bioanalytical Chemists

Like the black panther, are analytical scientists going extinct? In a presidential election year, we are reminded of the many tough choices we face—Democrats or Republicans, plastic or paper, ketchup or mustard, soccer or football. And as we watched the Olympic track and field events, for instance, we saw the margin between first and last…