Guest Columns

  1. 7 Focus Areas To Establish A Win-Win Relationship With Your CDMO 1/7/2025

    Working with a CDMO doesn’t always go as planned. This article outlines the factors that will impact project success and set up a “win-win” relationship.

  2. Deploy AI To Become A cGMP 'Special Agent' With A License To Care 1/7/2025

    Addressing systemic cGMP issues requires more than technical fixes — it demands organizational transformation. Thoughtfully applied, AI can empower professionals to become "special agents" of quality, equipped with a "license to care."

  3. 11 Key Contributing Factors For Maintaining Sterility Assurance 1/6/2025

    Containers and closures, depyrogenation, equipment, materials, personnel, and 7 more major factors all contribute to sterility assurance.

  4. ASTM International Pharmaceutical Cleaning Standards: Current Status And Future Direction 1/2/2025

    This article provides an update on the progress of the science-, risk-, and statistics-based ASTM International Cleaning Standards: published standards, work currently underway, and how you can get involved.

  5. Keep An Eye On These Analytical And Monitoring Trends In 2025 12/20/2024

    Three experts share their thoughts on the advances and obstacles in analytical development that they're thinking about as we head into 2025.

  6. Can Our Current Operational Processes Survive In 2025 And Beyond? 12/19/2024

    As long as operating procedure improvements are confined to a single function or sub-area, the benefits will be limited to that context. What can we do for true process improvement across our organization?

  7. AP Biosciences' Approach To Complex Antibody Manufacturing 12/19/2024

    The bispecific developer's vice president of antibody discovery, Jhong-Jhe You, digs into the company's approach to purification and analytics.

  8. Survey Findings: How Are IDMP Readiness Efforts Progressing? 12/13/2024

    ISO Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) standards were designed to harmonize the way the life sciences industry records and manages data about its products. Companies’ state of readiness to implement and harness IDMP still varies.

  9. Cell Culture Trends To Watch In 2025 12/12/2024

    Three upstream processing experts weigh in on advancements from the past year and what they're looking forward to in the year ahead.

  10. Why Aren't QC Labs Automated? Blame Sample Container Variability 12/11/2024

    Members of the Laboratory Automation Plug and Play group speak up about the factors they see holding back quality control labs from achieving more robust automation.