BIOPROCESS CONTROL: What the Next 15 Years Will Bring
“OK, I’ve got my tiny mammalian cells in the reactor, I’m feeding them and keeping them warm, but how am I to know whether they are happy and producing my products or not? It isn’t as if they can call me on a tiny cell phone (pun intended) and let me know.”
If your process could benefit from better on-line (or at-line as I’m told) instrumentation, the May 2008 issue of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine may point the way to a solution. Emerson’s Mike Boudreau along with Trish Benton of Broadley James discuss new analyzer technology that is now available that can demystify what is going on in your bioreactor. So, if you understand terms like “dielectric spectroscopy” and “encoded photometric infrared spectroscopy” or just want to understand them check out this article (716KB PDF).
