Blood stories
What if off-the-shelf is not enough for your needs?
Study almost anything with custom assay development
The drug development process can be a long and bumpy road with a vast array of parameters to check and validate. Sanquin PBS can help with any challenges that arise through custom assay development and validation.
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Donor blood helps ensure safer medicines
Investigating medication safety using MAT
Blood donations save human lives and can help get medication to patients safely. Sanquin uses immune cells taken from donor blood to investigate the safety of medicines.
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How do biotherapeutics talk to the human body?
Monitoring biotherapeutics for informed decision-making
Biotherapeutics are widely used and present a promising solution to many diseases. Their concentration in blood, their longevity and the effective dose need to be monitored to ensure a safe dose range and to confirm efficacy. Sanquin PBS is a key opinion leader in the field and has developed and provided quality biotherapeutic assays for decades.
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How do we capitalize on the versatile effects of antibodies?
A is for antibody
New technologies have led to the generation of increasingly specific and powerful antibody treatments. Sanquin can help unravel their story using the ABCs of blood.
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Why do clients turn to Sanquin PBS when faced with difficult cells?
Working with “difficult” cells
Just because a cell is difficult to work with doesn’t mean that it should be excluded from quality, safety, or efficacy controls. Through its vast experience and an optimized workflow, Sanquin PBS can study all aspects of difficult-to-handle blood cells including phagocytosis, degranulation, NETosis, migration, cytokine release, and apoptosis.
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What do we miss when we don’t look at the whole picture?
Unlocking the whole story in blood
Whole blood assays can measure direct and indirect drug interactions in a setup that reflects the natural environment in the body, catching any unforeseen effects that usually materialize later in the pipeline. Sanquin PBS is one of the few partners worldwide that can screen compounds on a large scale in whole blood for e.g. cytokine production, or complement activation.
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