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Contamination Control Compass
Edition #06/2024

Informative Articles
The Stealthy Invader – How to Prevent a Mycoplasma Contamination?

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Preventing mycoplasma contamination is essential for ensuring the integrity of cell culture experiments and the safety of biopharmaceutical products. Successful prevention requires a multifaceted approach including cell culture facility, cell culture procedure and operator technique.


Discover key strategies and best practices to tackle mycoplasma contamination before they enter your cell culture.

Regulatory changes
Ph. Eur. officially says goodbye to the rabbit pyrogen test (RPT)

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From July 1, 2025, all pharmaceutical manufacturers must have established an alternative method to check all their products for pyrogens. The monocyte activation test (MAT) is always recommended, as it detects all types of pyrogens (both endotoxin and non-endotoxin pyrogens).


Our NAT-MAT® goes a little further in this respect, as it combines the classic MAT with nucleic acid amplification technology.

You can read the original article published by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare here. 

Product Highlights
MiQuant® CAR-T Cell dPCR Lenti is now available

A digital PCR kit, that…

  • determines VCN of lentiviral vectors in transduced cells

  • enables absolute quantitation without standard curve

  • is compatible with the QIAcuity platform

  • works for human and other mammalian cells

  • provides accurate and reproducible results and

  • simplifies transport and storage thanks to its lyophilized components.

We also offer the matching MiQuant® SP Beads extraction kit, the VCN Standard Lenti and a free analysis software that allows you to easily calculate the vector copy number.


Interested?

Testers Wanted!

Minerva Biolabs is looking for testers for MiQuant® CAR-T Cell dPCR Lenti further on. Send a mail to miquant@minerva-biolabs.com to get more information.

Here's to clean cultures and reliable results!


Warm regards,

Your MB Team

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