Reclaiming Control From Your Raw Materials

The high cost of GMP-grade materials and testing threaten to cripple biotechs and academic labs. Understanding your purpose is the first part of reclaiming control of your product and process. If you want to publish papers, research-grade material should be sufficient from start to finish. If you want to develop a commercial product, the variability between the two types is significant enough that you may need to reengineer your product when it's time for first-in-human, Yan Zhi said during this segment of Cell & Gene Live "Viability On The Line."

Lawrence Thompson explains that even when activity tests deliver identical outputs, materials can perform in starkly different ways when introduced to your process.