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SBE Special Section: Biopharmaceuticals - SBE Update: Continuous Progress in Biopharmaceuticals

SBE Special Section
December
2015

The goal of bioprocessing is to optimize natural or artificial biological systems by manipulating prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and their environment to produce biopharmaceutical products. A bioprocess is divided into upstream and downstream operations. Upstream processing encompasses the steps from preliminary unmodified cell line culture to the mature modified cell culture and harvest; downstream processing includes the separation and purification of the biologics from the mature activated cell culture. These operations have typically been performed as batch processes.

The authors of this supplement’s second article explain the transition to continuous processing in the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals: “While continuous downstream processing...

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