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Thermo Fisher introduces Aegis5-14 Film for cell culture, bioprocessing applications

The Aegis5-14 Film, which is built on the CX5-14 platform, has been tested for use in bioprocessing applications.

Thermo Fisher marketing global director for cell culture and bioprocessing Brandon Pence said that the company continues to raise the bar to meet the expanding needs for single-use systems used by its customers to produce vaccines and biologic.

"Our new Aegis5-14 premium film, with its extremely clean leachables and extractables profile, is designed for the most challenging cell culture applications," Pence added.

Single-use bioreactors and the biological systems are used to produce vaccines and biologics based on the understanding of complex relationship between single-use film, cell culture media.

The Aegis5-14 Film uses an Animal Derived Component Free (ADCF) formulation and can be used in the spectrum of single-use technologies, including single-use bioreactors, single-use mixers and bioprocess containers (from 50 to 2000L).