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Laboratory Best Practices
2018
AUTOMATION
4 Cobots in the Pharma Lab
Jennifer Markarian
AUGMENTED REALITY
8 Mixed Reality Gains a Foothold in the Lab
Agnes Shanley
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE
10 Precompetitive Research Spurs
Innovation in Pharmaceutical Analysis
Jennifer Markarian
ANALYTICS
14 Multiple Attributes Monitoring:
A New Phase in PAT for Biopharma
Agnes Shanley
ANALYTICAL METHODS
16 Best Practices in Analytical
Method Development and Testing
Mario DiPaola
OUTSOURCING
24 Barriers and Solutions to Eff ective
External Collaboration in Biopharma
Paul Denny-Gouldson
SAMPLE PREPARATION
28 The Impact of Vortexing on the
Particle-Size Distribution of Pharmaceuticals
Greg Maj, Jeff Driscoll, Eric Olson, and Jonathon Salsbury
RAW MATERIALS TESTING
38 Analytical Best Practices
for Raw Materials Testing
Feliza Mirasol
PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION
42 Complex Protein Studies
Demand Dynamic Techniques
Rita Peters
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