Newsletter | November 11, 2025

11.11.25 -- What You Should Know About USP's Bioassay Updates

SPONSOR

Webinar: The future is now: are you keeping pace with oligo synthesis optimization?

The oligonucleotide market is rapidly evolving, expanding beyond rare diseases into larger patient populations. With over 40 years of experience, Cytiva helps streamline oligo development, manufacturing, and scale-up—whether you’re optimizing R&D or bringing processes in-house. Join this webinar to explore Cytiva’s latest oligo synthesis system, end-to-end workflow, and innovations shaping the future of RNA synthesis. Click here to learn more.

FOCUS ON MANUFACTURING

What You Should Know About USP's Bioassay Updates

The United States Pharmacopeia is overhauling general chapters to align them with current industry standards. One scientist on the project helps us unpack the changes.

Decoding AAV: Navigating Critical Quality Attributes And Their Analytics

For groundbreaking genetic treatments, stringent quality control is non-negotiable. This exploration delves into defining essential attributes and the analytical tools that safeguard their consistent production.

A New Approach To Isolator Decontamination

How can you address the decontamination challenges associated with isolated fill-finish operations? New innovations are being implemented to ensure superior sporicidal reduction and operational safety.

The Case For Optimized And Excipient GMP Cell Culture Solutions

Learn how optimized, customizable formulations and Excipient GMP manufacturing streamline development, ensuring quality and consistency for a de-risked path to the clinic.

Vial Containment Systems: Interactions With Glass, Polymer, And Elastomer

Explore in detail how certain vials and elastomer stoppers provide significantly better protection than corresponding borosilicate glass vials and elastomer stoppers without an effective barrier film.

Cell Cycle Mapping In Tumors With Advanced Technologies

Discover how spatial profiling and advanced imaging tools are transforming drug discovery, featuring Wayne Stallaert’s lab’s work on cell cycle mapping and biomarker insights in cancer research.

Streamlining Mesenchymal Stem Cell (MSC) Expansion

A new functionally-closed cell expansion system featuring a hollow-fiber membrane and customizable protocols is streamlining the production of stem cells for regenerative medicine.

Tackling Allogeneic Immunotherapy's Bottleneck With Vertical-Wheel® Bioreactors

New bioreactor technology provides an optimal environment for shear-sensitive cells, addressing key scale-up challenges for allogeneic therapies from research to commercial production.

Greater Versatility: Multi-Well Inserts Allow For A Two-Chamber System

Multi-well inserts allowing for a two-chamber system that can expose cell cultures from above and below provide greater versatility and expand research options compared to standard cell culture plates.

Tackling CGT Challenges: Stirred-Tank Bioreactors For R&D Manufacturing

Scalability remains a key bottleneck in CGT manufacturing. See how optimized stirred-tank bioreactor systems accelerate translation from clinical to commercial production.

Depth Filtration Devices For Cell Cultures, Fermentation Broths, And Cell Lysates

Typically, devices containing depth media filters offer more efficient filtration. Browse depth filtration products for the downstream processing of cell culture solutions, fermentation broths, and lysates.

High-Titer rAAV Production In Bioreactors Using Producer Cell Lines

Here, we detail the upstream process development and optimization for an AAV8-GFP proof-of-concept (PoC) producer single cell clone (SCC) in both batch and perfusion modes.

MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS

Panels For Compounding Operations And Critical Environments - Germfree

EX-CELL® CD Insect Cell Medium - MilliporeSigma

Flow Cytometry Sample Preparation System - BD Biosciences

Freedom Cell Line Development Kits - Thermo Fisher Scientific Bioproduction

Protein Characterization And Metabolomic Analysis - Repligen – PAT

Streamline Your Cell Therapy Manufacturing - Cytiva

A New Horizon In AAV cGMP Gene Therapy Manufacturing - Viralgen

EVENTS

Advancing the Future of Cell & Gene Therapy

This 11-12 November, Cell 2025 unites 1,000+ leading experts across the CGT value chain to solve key challenges, from scalable bioprocessing and regulatory hurdles to accelerating development timelines.

 

Gain practical strategies across cell culture, therapy development, and CGT manufacturing, and hear from world-renowned leaders Bobby Gaspar (CEO, Orchard Therapeutics), Christof Von Kalle, (Director & BIH Chair, Research Clinic Luxemburg), and Dame Molly Stevens (University of Oxford). Register Now

Connect With Cell & Gene: