Vaccine testing without animal experiments?
Abstract Vaccines must provide effective protection against disease without any harmful side effects. Antigen purity is a crucial factor which until now has had to be tested on animals. However,…
Potency testing of cell and gene therapy products
Potency is one of the critical quality attributes of biological medicinal products, defining their biological activity. Potency testing is expected to reflect the Mechanism of Action (MoA) of the medicinal…
Precision oncology using ex vivo technology: a step towards individualised cancer care
Despite advances in cancer genomics and the increased use of genomic medicine, metastatic cancer is still mostly an incurable and fatal disease. With diminishing returns from traditional drug discovery strategies,…