by Nina Byloff | Aug 21, 2025 | CRO Laboratory Services
In the world of vaccine and antiviral development, access to high-quality, reliable viral reference materials can make or break a research program. Yet, few outside the industry understand how these critical reagents are manufactured, or by whom. When most people...
by Microbiologics | Jun 12, 2025 | CRO Laboratory Services, Pharmaceutical
Adventitious agent testing is critical to ensure patient safety and maintain product integrity. Biopharmaceuticals, often derived from living cells, are susceptible to contamination by viruses and mycoplasmas, which can be introduced during cell culture, raw material...
by Andrea Marra | Jul 26, 2023 | Clinical, CRO Laboratory Services, Molecular, Pharmaceutical
At any given time, one in five people in the US has a sexually transmitted infection (STI), translating to more than 60 million infections per year.1 These infections cost billions in healthcare expenses each year. Even more alarming, over 40% of all new STIs in this...
by Andrea Marra | May 3, 2023 | CRO Laboratory Services, Pharmaceutical
We take it for granted that in the age of antibiotics there will always be a drug available to treat an infection. But reports of outbreaks of a pan-resistant fungal disease known as Candida auris– that is resistant to every antifungal medication physicians have to...
by Andrea Marra | Mar 24, 2023 | CRO Laboratory Services, Pharmaceutical
The bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has plagued humans for probably 70,000 years and remains a global threat to this day.1, 2 In 1882, Robert Koch recognized Mtb as the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), but it took decades for the first...
by Microbiologics | Aug 3, 2021 | CRO Laboratory Services, Pharmaceutical
When it comes to pre-clinical and clinical research in drug and therapy development, there are several areas of responsibility where sponsors may outsource key functions to a Contract Research Organization (CRO). The reasons vary, but the top two are cost...
