If you’re inclined to look at the far horizons of temperature-controlled shipping of life sciences products, one of the more notable opportunities is regenerative medicine—process of developing tissues and entire organs that can be implanted in patients as a therapy […]

Kuehne  + Nagel (Basel, Switzerland) and CSafe LLC (Dayton, OH) have announced a master lease agreement whereby K+N will integrate CSafe’s RKN unit-load device into its global network of service centers, dedicated life sciences resources and tracking systems. The RKN […]

The recent IQPC Cold Chain & Temperature Management Global Forum (Chicago, Sept. 24-28) demonstrated that growing volumes of life sciences products (commercial deliveries, clinical trial materials and medical devices) requiring temperature-controlled shipment are attracting more and more vendors to the […]

Cool Container’s PharmaPort -20C While most temperature-controlled biopharmaceuticals need to stay in the 2-8°C range, there are some frozen products, and there are many clinical trial materials (CTMs) or bulk intermediates, that require frozen conditions. For those needs, Cool Containers […]

Details are sketchy at the moment, but if all goes well, a newly formed company, BT9 (Migdal Tefen, Israel) aims to be introducing a pharma-specific version of its Xsense monitoring technology to the North American market in mid-2013. The company […]

A new company called Vaxxas has just opened a Cambridge, MA, office to work with Merck, among others, on vaccine delivery technology. The company has a proprietary transdermal technology, called Nanopatch, that has the potential to allow vaccine antigens to […]

Entropy Solutions (Minneapolis) popped into view several years ago with a family of phase-change materials (PCMs) that offered advantages over competing materials. These PCMs went into the Entropy Solutions Greenbox, a tailored packaging solution for temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals; that brand, and […]

As clinical trials involving more biospecimens increase, and as more temperature-sensitive biologics become the heart of new clinical trials, the volume and scope of activity around these processes also grow. In light of this, it makes sense that, according to […]

Although it’s more for pharmacies or others storing biologic drugs, rather than manufacturers or shippers, some general guidance that came from FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) might provide some useful information on storing, using or discarding biologics […]

Sofrigam (Rueil-Malmaison, France), owner of several prominent brands in cold-chain shipping containers, such as Frizbox and Sofribox, has partnered with a global supply-chain services company, ModusLink Global Solutions (Waltham, MA). The purpose: to provide localized delivery and returns of cold-chain […]