Robust sterility testing is essential to ensure the safety of cell therapies. However, traditional culture-based analysis takes several weeks to confirm a therapeutic’s microbial contamination, which ...

One type of microbe, mycoplasma, has proven particularly pesky in cell-culture studies, contaminating labs and cultures and affecting resultant data. In this interview with Diana, we get introduced to ...

Ensuring cell culture sterility is essential in small and large bioprocesses. Microbial contamination from bacteria, viruses, and fungi can spread among experiments and workflows—wasting time, ...

Contamination of cell culture media by these organisms has become a recurring problem for the biopharmaceutical industry. In the 80s, Acholeplasma laidlawii was found to be a major contaminant of ...

Several different types of microbes can contaminate cell culture, including bacteria, fungi, viruses and Mycoplasma. Some of these, such as mold contamination, can be obvious, and therefore caught ...

Mycoplasma contamination remains a persistent challenge in cell culture laboratories globally. These minute, wall-less prokaryotes can stealthily infiltrate cultures by bypassing standard ...