Newsletter | October 20, 2026

10.20.26 -- Uncovering The Biggest Risk In Scaling MSCs

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Webinar: Rethinking Starting Material: Whole Blood for Autologous T-Cell Manufacture

Could whole blood offer a practical alternative to leukapheresis for selected autologous T-cell therapy workflows? This webinar explores fit-for-purpose starting-material selection, cell requirements, recovery, processing logistics, and key variables such as hold time and anticoagulant choice. Learn how closed, automated cell-isolation approaches may help simplify processing, reduce patient burden, and support efficient, reproducible manufacturing across evolving cell therapy workflows. Click here to learn more.

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Uncovering The Biggest Risk In Scaling MSCs

In this segment of Cell & Gene Live, Scaling Next-Gen MSC Therapies Without Scaling Risk, Miguel Forte, M.D., Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder, Kiji Therapeutics, Michael Schuster, Director of Business Development, Mesoblast, and Edward Ahn, Ph.D., CEO and Director, MEDIPOST Inc. cover the realistic applications for AI and automation in process development, visual inspection, data analysis, root-cause analysis, and comparability.

Streamlining Scientific Workflows In Biomanufacturing

Fragmented systems and manual handoffs can slow projects and obscure emerging bottlenecks. Learn how connected, automated workflows can improve coordination and strengthen project visibility.

Nucleic Acid-LNP Ultrafiltration And Diafiltration

Downstream filtration can make or break LNPs at scale. See how membrane format, loading, and shear affect recovery and stability — and how alternative TFF lowers scale‑up risk.

Maximizing Safety And Efficacy In Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy

Advances in automated stem cell engineering are improving gene transfer efficiency while maintaining cell quality, offering a path toward safer, more standardized, and scalable manufacturing workflows.

Challenges, Methods, And Solutions For Obtaining Optimal Starting Material

For innovative treatments like CAR-T and stem cell transplants, optimal starting material is key. Understanding collection challenges and new solutions helps ensure the best foundation for these therapies.

Simplified LV And AAV Clarification With TFDF-Based Intensified Virus Production

Explore how Tangential Flow Depth Filtration (TFDF) enhances viral vector production, streamlining the clarification process and increasing efficiency and yield for LV and AAV manufacturing.

Addressing Plasmid DNA Challenges In Large-Scale AAV Manufacturing

Plasmid DNA supply and regulatory concerns constrain large-scale viral vector manufacturing. Here, we examine whether enzymatically generated dbDNA can deliver comparable rAAV and rLV production outcomes.

Comprehensive Bioprocess Control: Substrate, Metabolite, And Product Analysis

Discover how multi-parameter bioprocess analyzers support monitoring of 30+ bioprocess parameters across mammalian and microbial systems to optimize yield and product quality.

A Strategic Overview Of Fc Engineering

Uncover how Fc engineering transforms antibodies into precise therapeutic tools by modulating immune effector functions and extending half-life to improve patient outcomes and overcome complex clinical challenges.

Biosafety Testing And Quality Control Requirements For Lentiviral Vectors

Take a look at manufacturing principles of LV vectors as well as testing requirement regulatory considerations with a particular focus on the replication competent virus assay and infectious titer assay.

Efficiently Optimize Your Workflow With Single-Use Chromatography

Gain insight into how low-volume purification can be done more efficiently in GMP settings with a live system demo and customer insights on optimizing workflows with single-use chromatography.

Achieve Higher AAV Productivity With A Next-Generation Transfection Reagent

Delve into a next-generation transfection system that requires 50% less plasmid, decreases transfection reagent consumption, and yields higher AAV productivity to reduce cost per dose.

Extracellular Vesicles: Engineering New Therapeutic Delivery Modalities

Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are emerging as promising natural nano-scale platforms for delivering nucleic acids, proteins, and small molecules due to their immune silencing properties.

Maximize Starting Material Consistency

By implementing an efficient characterization strategy, researchers can enhance the consistency of allogeneic cell therapy starting material, ultimately leading to improved clinical outcomes.

Next Gen Plasmid Technology: Improve Performance, Safety, Manufacturing

Nanoplasmids have paved the way for facilitating a wide range of cell and gene therapeutic applications. Gain an overview of a novel technology and specific benefits.

Transforming T Cell Manufacturing Via Elutriation With Korus

Observe a system that uses a gentle elutriation process to give manufacturers a cleaner cell population to begin cell therapy production processes such as CAR-T.

MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS

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Cell Processing Systems Powered By Flexible Automation - CellBri

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Learn More About The Data Integration Layer - Siemens

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Gene To GMP, Translating Concept Into Cure - Artis BioSolutions

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Chemically Defined Media System For Scalable Exosome Manufacturing - RoosterBio

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An Innovative Assembly Concept For Versatile Requirements - Harro Höfliger

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Solutions To Automate Large-Scale MSC And T Cell Expansion - FUJIFILM Biosciences

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Optimizing Performance For De-Risked Lentiviral Vector Production - MilliporeSigma

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