ANALYTICAL/QUALITY ARTICLES
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From Supporting Component to Strategic Driver: The Evolving Role of gRNA in CRISPR Therapeutics
Guide RNA is evolving from a simple targeting reagent into a complex, engineered molecule shaped by expanding CRISPR modalities, increasing length and modification demands, and tighter integration with manufacturability, analytical control, and regulatory expectations.
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5 Key Questions On How To Accelerate mRNA Development
Stakeholders are working to solve key mRNA manufacturing challenges, including how raw materials impact product quality and how to address scale up. Though existing analytical and manufacturing technologies may fall short for mRNA, investment in innovative techniques will help meet increasing demand for personalized therapeutics.
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The RNA Ties That Bind: 3 Takeaways From The OPT Congress
Here, I unpack three takeaways I had from the OPT Congress, each of which I’d argue are indicative of the interconnectedness across the genetic medicines field.
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Rethinking ATMP Assurance When Sterility Timelines, Reality Misalign
The compendial 14-day sterility testing window exposes product and patient to numerous risks, but settling on a rapid alternative also presents its own set of challenges.
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MicroRNA Therapeutics In Metabolic Liver Disease: Context-Driven Drug Discovery
Realizing the therapeutic potential of miRNAs in liver disease requires confronting a problem the field has not fully reckoned with.
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Inside Alnylam's Playbook For High Volume siRNA Production
As one of the first companies to establish a chemoenzymatic ligation platform, Alnylam's Maines and Nechev are in the perfect position to espouse wisdom on the practical aspects and remaining challenges of implementing enzymatic ligation at a large scale. Here in this installment, Maines and Nechev outline what they’ve learned thus far about the science of enzymatic ligation, while also paying credence to the unknowns and existing barriers that, as a frontrunner, Alnylam will inevitably (but willingly) be tasked with facing in the future.
ARTICLES, APP NOTES, CASE STUDIES, & WHITE PAPERS
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Extending The Lower Limits Of Quantification Of A Therapeutic Oligonucleotide Through Microflow LC-MS/MS
Here a solution is presented to widely recognized challenges with ionpairing reversed phase liquid chromatography (IP-RP LC) through a novel microflow LC-MS strategy.
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Best Practices For Analysis Of IVT mRNA
Discover how an automated capillary electrophoresis system provides robust and precise integrity, concentration, and size analysis for IVT mRNA.
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Biopharma Production And Quality Control With Electrophoresis
Discover how Kaneka Eurogentec, a leading provider of custom DNA synthesis and molecular biology services, enhanced their fragment analysis to achieve higher efficiency and accuracy in their workflows.
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Mastering mRNA Manufacturing: A Focus on Raw Materials & Supply Assurance
Rapid advancements in mRNA-based therapeutic development have underscored the role of raw material quality and supply chain management in ensuring their successful production.
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Assessing Doggybone DNA For In Vitro Transcription
In this study, we evaluated the performance of two dbDNA IVT templates, each encoding the same mRNA (firefly luciferase or Fluc), by looking at the mRNA purity and in vivo potency of the mRNA IVT’d from each template.
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High-Sensitivity IVT mRNA Analysis
Quality analysis of in vitro transcribed (IVT) has become an essential part of biotherapeutic workflows. Discover a high-sensitivity kit made for analyzing IVT mRNA quality to advance your research.
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A&M STABTEST Expands Service Offerings In Protein And Oligonucleotide Analysis With LC-MS System
CRO upgrades systems to provide regulatory compliance for large-molecule protein analysis, expanding their oligonucleotides capabilities.