It’s still very early innings in commercialization of stem cell-based therapies (although a first FDA approval for a product, Hemacord stem cells for transplantation, was granted in 2011, and several countries are allowing direct injection of stem cells as therapy). […]

Marken (RTP, NC) has been continually upgrading capacities and capabilities worldwide for managing clinical trial logistics for the past several years; the latest upgrades are in Dublin and Singapore.   In Dublin, it has opened what it calls a “distribution […]

Employing advanced modeling technologies for package design, as well as new elements in phase-change materials (which provide the both refrigerative cooling and freeze protection to protect for temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals), Cold Chain Technologies (CCT; Holliston, MA) has an upgraded family of […]

Active Temperature-Controlled Systems: Qualification Guidance (Technical Report No. 64) is the latest in a series of documents being published by the Parenteral Drug Assn. (Bethesda, MD) on managing cold-chain processes in pharma distribution. The document was written by a group […]

The Temp-Assure service, newly offered from FedEx Custom Critical (Uniontown, OH) makes use of qualification expertise within the FedEx organization to provide validation of the choices made by manufacturers for packaging, shipping process and logistics provider. “While we love it […]

Enhanced service offerings continue to appear, to meet requirements of life sciences shippers. IAG Cargo, the merged air-cargo business of British Airways and Iberia Air, has opened a 7,000-sq.ft. facility at Heathrow Airport in the UK to handle transshipments from […]

Businesses ranging from logistics giants like UPS and FedEx, to startups like SkyCell AG (Zurich) and Emo-Pim (Pickering, OH) put new products and services on display at the IQPC Temperature Management meeting (Chicago, Sept. 30-Oct. 4). The level of new […]

Hypothermic—below body temperature, extending into cryopreservation—storage and shipping is vital to clinical research involving biological materials, cells and tissues. It is coming to the fore through research in stem-cell therapies, regenerative medicine and the existing therapeutic practices of blood-product treatments, […]

The va-Q-tainer is a pallet-sized, rigid-metal container for passive control of life sciences products, and is now available for use in United Air Cargo’s TempControl service, as well as conventional air freight (EXP) from the Chicago-based international carrier. The device […]

It is common, in clinical trials, to require so-called comparator drugs, which need to be safely and verifiably obtained samples of an existing drug product, to which the tested drug will be compared in a trial. But without patients, prescriptions […]