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COVID-19 Case Analysis 23 Jan to 29 March 2020
- posted by: Lee Smith
- posted on: March 30, 2020
Animated bubble plot of cumulative COVID-19 cases & deaths by country.
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Bioprocess International Article on Ensuring and Controlling the Quality of Biologics
- posted by: Lee Smith
- posted on: June 30, 2017
Article titled The State of the Industry as a celebration of BioProcess International’s 15th year of publication
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Use of Design of Experiments (DOE) for Vaccine Formulation
- posted by: Lee Smith
- posted on: August 31, 2017
How DOE was used to create a new formulation for a live attenuated viral vaccine
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Building a Process Control Strategy
- posted by: Lee Smith
- posted on: October 11, 2016
Frequently when a process development team are putting together the upstream and downstream components of their processes, the last thing on the their minds is the performance of the tests or assays that they'll be measuring it by. Even if they do think about, they may make an unhealthy assumption that they can simply rely on the data. Sometimes they'll be right, often they'll be wrong. When measuring the performance of their process they need to be thinking about the process variability.....
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Balancing the Statistical Tightrope
- posted by: Lee Smith
- posted on: September 26, 2016
During one development meeting early in my industrial career, a process development group member asked me whether the value my group had reported in one result was okay to use. I confidently replied “Yes, it’s fine. It’s about 40, somewhere between 38 and 42. The other person raised his eyebrows - an answer not met with full understanding, but rather concern.
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