April 2012

Lyostat is a freeze drying microscope that allows observation and recording of sample structure during freeze-drying. This enables collapse temperature to be determined, as well as observation of many other events such as crystallisation and the effects…

Cytotoxic drugs are used as part of a chemotherapy regime and form the bedrock of this form of cancer treatment.  Recently, their uses have expanded outside of the cancer envelope to treatment for certain skin conditions (e.g., psoriasis), the treatment…

March 2012

Later this month BTL will be attending the International Society of Lyophilization and Freeze-Drying (ISL-FD)’s 5th Annual Conference in Bologna, Italy.

The Society is a non-profit organization which aims to promote and advance the field of lyophilization. This…

April 2012

Lyostat is a freeze drying microscope that allows observation and recording of sample structure during freeze-drying. This enables collapse temperature to be determined, as well as observation of many other events such as crystallisation and the effects…

Cytotoxic drugs are used as part of a chemotherapy regime and form the bedrock of this form of cancer treatment.  Recently, their uses have expanded outside of the cancer envelope to treatment for certain skin conditions (e.g., psoriasis), the treatment…

March 2012

ILSI-BioMed is the leading international conference covering the innovation in the biomedical, health care and life sciences industries.

ILSI-Biomed 2012 follows the success of previous annual conferences: last year’s event drew 6,000 industry players, engineers and scientists, with…

March 2012

Later this month BTL will be attending the International Society of Lyophilization and Freeze-Drying (ISL-FD)’s 5th Annual Conference in Bologna, Italy.

The Society is a non-profit organization which aims to promote and advance the field of lyophilization. This…

February 2012

Freeze drying is carried out to enable long term storage. Water affects many products both chemically and physically, so removing the moisture stabilises the product so that its immunologic potency, viability and…

Large quantities of donated blood is discarded due to stability issues. There is considerable value in achieving more stable material, and freeze-drying offers the opportunity of stabilising whole blood or blood components. However, the fragility of red blood cell membrane…

January 2012

BTL’s Director of R&D, Dr Kevin Ward, will be speaking at the 2nd Lyophlization Americas conference this March in Boston, USA.

This three-day strategic conference gathers professionals from around the world to address important issues related to freeze…

December 2011

BTL’s Director of R&D, Dr Kevin Ward, will be presenting a webinar on our groundbreaking work on the freeze drying of human red blood cells in early 2012.

Blood preservation technologies depend upon refrigeration,…

November 2011

All lyophilisation processes have the same ultimate goal, to provide active and shelf-stable product in as safe and efficient a manner as possible. However each product intended for lyophilisation will have different specific formulation and processing requirements.

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