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Both HBV and EqHBV deltavirus pseudotypes infected primary horse hepatocytes in vitro, supporting a broad host range for EqHBV among equids and suggesting that horses might be suitable for EqHBV and HBV infections in vivo. Evolutionary analyses suggested that EqHBV originated in Africa several thousand years ago, commensurate with the domestication of donkeys. In sum, EqHBV naturally infects diverse equids and mimics HBV infection patterns. Equids provide a unique opportunity for preclinical testing of novel therapeutics for CHB and to investigate HBV/HCV interplay upon coinfection.Post-approval changes (PACs) are inevitable and necessary throughout the life of a drug product. read more Because many PACs require prior approval by individual regulatory agencies each having their own reporting requirements and approval timelines this results in companies having to manage several versions of a manufacturing process at the same time. The global regulatory complexity increases risk of drug shortages. Chief Quality Officers and Heads of Quality from more than 20 global pharmaceutical companies have come together to speak with One-Voice-Of-Quality (1VQ) and develop solutions to this problem by developing a science and risk-based approach to manage more PACs in the PQS rather than submitting these as prior approval supplements. The paper ″Industry One-Voice-of-Quality (1VQ) Solutions. Effective Management of Post-Approval Changes in the Pharmaceutical Quality System (PQS) - Through Enhanced Science and Risk-Based Approaches″ (PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology July 2020, 74 (4) 456-467; DOI https//doi.org/10.5731/pdajpst.2020.011734) outlines such solutions. Pharmaceutical companies already conduct Management Review (MR) according to ICH Q10. This One-Voice-Of-Quality (1VQ) paper is a practical guide on how companies can expand the MR to also evaluate and demonstrate the effectiveness of their Pharmaceutical Quality System (PQS) in specifically managing PACs to achieve regulatory flexibility as stated in ICH Q10, Annex 1. Examples of PQS Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that may be used to assess, plan, implement, and monitor PACs are described. The intent is to provide assurance through MR that PACs can be managed effectively in the PQS, thereby resulting in a reduced need for regulatory prior approval of certain low risk changes that enhance product availability, reduce the risk of drug shortages, and/or facilitate timely innovation and continual improvement in the pharmaceutical industry. This document is endorsed by 1VQ Chief Quality Officers and Heads of Quality.Statistical quality and process controls (SQC and SPC) are used for monitoring, trending and ultimately improving biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes and operations. The purpose of this paper is to highlight characteristic features of bioprocess data, their impact on typical SQC and SPC applications, specifically control charts for individual observations (I-chart) and provide guidance on practical issues faced during application of SQC and SPC. Simulated data were used in an attempt to mimic bioprocess data by inducing inhomogeneity, non-stationarity, auto-correlation, and outliers. The first part of the paper highlights the role of within and overall standard deviation (SD) estimates for 3-sigma limits, consequences of autocorrelation and their impacts on frequently applied sensitizing rules for control charts, i.e. Nelson's rules 1 - 4. The second part deals with the often asked question of how many observations are required for estimation of robust 3-sigma limits. In the third part five popular approaches for treating censored data (results below or equal to limit of quantification, ≤ LOQ) were compared and their impact on 3-sigma limits and Ppk estimates were assessed. Finally addressing the less mathematical needs of quality managers, the last section summarizes the typical issues faced by the practitioner in the application of SQC and SPC and provides remedies for setting up robust and efficient control charts for biopharmaceutical process monitoring. Overall, this study shows that process monitoring and subsequent assessment without taking into consideration this atypical nature of biopharmaceutical process can lead to increased false alarm rates thus impacting the batch release or even possibility of rejecting good batches.The article proposes an implementation roadmap of a Contamination Control Strategy (CCS) in a facility. The CCS is a culmination of an exercise to identify activities designed to prevent microorganisms, pyrogens, and particulates contamination in the product, the facility, and supporting processes used to manufacture the product. Manufacturers can formulate their contamination control strategy based on information in the quality target product profile or in the critical quality attributes, in the facility and in the processes used to manufacture and transport the product. The strategy implementation involves executing the strategic plan and managing the implementation by priority overtime should it be deployed. The evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the contamination control strategy implemented is confirmed by analyzing and trending the various quality performance parameters related to contamination control. The strategy evaluation allows the manufacturer to identify a new strategic plan to support improvement goals or new measures/controls to achieve the desired result, minimizing the contamination risk.DNA polymerase θ, a protein encoded by the POLQ gene, is the defining factor for the DNA double-strand break repair pathway known as theta-mediated end-joining (TMEJ). Some cancers depend on TMEJ for survival and tumor growth. TMEJ might be useful as a biomarker to guide patient treatment and is now an active target for drug development, making it critical to understand how it is regulated in cells. In a recent article, Prodhomme and colleagues provide the first identification of a transcription regulator of POLQ expression and TMEJ activity the transcription factor, ZEB1.See related article by Prodhomme et al., p. 1595.read more