Telephone sharing button Contact Us linkedin sharing button LinkedIn wechat sharing button YouTube wechat sharing button Twitter mailbox sharing button info@wuxibiologics.com
arrow_left sharing button
arrow_right sharing button

Global Quality Control (QC) Assay List

Our Quality Control (QC) labs support all WuXi Biologics clinical and commercial product GMP manufacturing sites throughout the world and work closely with Analytical Development teams to provide our customers with the highest quality testing services.  The following list of commonly conducted assays and the types of available instrumentation, although not all-inclusive, provide a snapshot on the scope and breadth of methods frequently used for lot release or stability testing of biologics and vaccines at WuXi Biologics.  If you do not see a method or instrument on this list or to inquire on our experience with a specific method / assay either in our assay development labs or QC, please contact us directly.

 

Assay Platform Example Assays Equipment / Instrument

Compendial

pH/conductivity

pH and conductivity meter/S470K

Osmolality

Osmometer/OsmoPro, OsmoTech Pro

Turbidity

Turbidimeter/TL2350

Color

Color Meter/BYK LCS IV

Visual Clarity

Light Box/Judge QC2015837 

Visible particles

 Light Box/YB-2 &APOLLOⅡLED
Illuminance Meter/LX1010BS

Particulate Matter

Liquid Particle Counter/HIAC 9703+

Forces (Gliding force, …etc)

Electromechanical Testing system/3343 Single Column Table Frame 

Sterility

 Isolator/GETINGE ISOFLEX-S; SKAN Isolator PSI-M with WirelessGT

Bioburden

 Pump/Milliflex plus

CCIT (Vacuum Decay)

PTI455,PTI465

CCIT (Dye Ingress)

Container closure integrity testing system/Zillion ZM5

Endotoxin

 Absorbance Microplate Reader/ELx808TM

UPLC

UP-SEC
Peptide Mapping
N-glycans

Agilent/1290
Waters/H-Class

HPLC

SEC
CEX
Titer by ProA
HIC
PS-20/80 or other surfactant
Histidine or other amino acids

Agilent/1260, 1290
Waters/E2695, Arc Bio
Thermo/Ultimate 3000

Capillary Electrophoresis

SDS Reduced
SDS non-reduced

PA800 Plus

iCIEF

ProteinSimple/iCE3
ProteinSimple/Maurice C

Content

UV280

Agilent/Cary100; C Technologies/SoloVPE

Biochemistry

Host Cell Protein
Residual Protein A

Hamilton/Microlab Star; Biotek/405LS; MD/M5e; Biorad/Chemidoc MP

Residual DNA by qPCR

AppliedBiosystem 7500 &Q7

Western Blot

Invitrogen/PowerEase 500 Power Supply EI 8700; Bio-RAD/PowerPac Basic

 


Global QC maintains multiple in-house testing Centers of Excellence including physicochemistry, biochemistry, biosafety, bioassay, microbiology, and molecular biology labs. Utilizing state-of-the-art instruments, that benchmark industry standards our QC teams provide the expertise and capacity to support our client’s manufacturing programs and to perform stand-alone testing services for a wide array of biologics and vaccines. We work, as needed, alongside our large, highly trained and experienced analytical development teams to develop customized lot release and stability testing programs designed to meet regulatory guidelines and GMP regulations.