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

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

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

Embracing Analytical Techniques Into Regulated Laboratories

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

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

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

Boosting Biopharma Productivity with Routine LC-MS

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!)

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

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

Learning from User Experience

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

Making Mass Analysis Smarter for Biopharma

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

The Future of Biopharmaceutical Development Just Became Brighter

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….