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Animal Pharmaceuticals
10/21/2025
Quality Assurance in Animal Health Supply Chains: How to Mitigate Risks
In the animal health industry, innovation doesn’t end when a new therapy leaves the lab. From the moment a product is ready to move, its quality depends on one thing above all else: a controlled, reliable supply chain. In this context, quality assurance (QA) goes beyond a regulatory requirement and quickly becomes a critical safeguard that ensures every shipment maintains its efficacy and compliance throughout the complexities of transport.
Animal Pharmaceuticals
09/23/2025
Revolutionizing Animal Health Logistics: How Advanced Technology Protects Product Quality
Innovation in the animal health sector extends far beyond the laboratory. While researchers develop next-generation vaccines, advanced biologics, and complex veterinary therapeutics, the logistics that bring these products from manufacturing to the field are evolving just as rapidly. For companies delivering temperature-sensitive products across continents, ensuring quality has quickly become mission-critical. A shipment that arrives late, compromised, or out of specification can affect patient outcomes and regulatory compliance, all while quietly eroding operational efficiency and profit margins.
Animal Pharmaceuticals
09/16/2025
Temperature-Controlled Shipping: A Lifeline for Animal Health Companies
For animal health companies, the success of a product is determined long before it reaches the veterinary clinic, farm, or research facility. No matter how innovative a vaccine, biologic, or next-gen therapy may be, its ultimate impact depends on maintaining its integrity during transportation. Temperature-controlled logistics are no longer a back-office concern, they have become a core element of success that impacts product efficacy, regulatory compliance, and even operational efficiency.
Veterinary Support
08/07/2025
Supporting the Health of Cats Worldwide and the Future of Veterinary Therapeutics
This International Cat Day, we celebrate our feline companions as we recognize the science and care that support their health. As veterinary medicine continues to evolve, so does the complexity of the treatments available. Biotherapeutics, advanced cell and gene therapies, and next-generation vaccines are changing the way veterinary professionals care for cats, particularly those living with chronic conditions or in need of specialized care. Behind the scenes, Cryoport Systems plays an important role in enabling this new era of treatment.
Veterinary Support
08/04/2025
How Veterinary Practices Can Benefit from Reliable Logistics Partners
In veterinary medicine, success depends not just on skill and compassion, but also on having the right tools and treatments at the right time. From life-saving vaccines to advanced regenerative therapies, veterinary care today relies on a wide array of temperature-sensitive biologics. Ensuring these critical materials arrive safely and on time is no longer just a convenience, it’s a necessity.
Animal Health
07/21/2025
The Role of Quality in Livestock Logistics
In commercial breeding and livestock operations, reproductive success is a critical factor when it comes to profitability, herd health, and long-term genetic advancement. For operations that rely on the shipment of frozen semen, embryos, or other reproductive materials, the quality of your logistics can make or break success.
Animal Health
07/08/2025
Celebrating Cow Appreciation Day by Supporting the Backbone of Agriculture
July 8 marks Cow Appreciation Day, a time to pause and recognize the essential role cows play in feeding the world and sustaining rural communities. While some may celebrate with themed events or social media tributes, at Cryoport Systems, we appreciate cows every day through our ongoing commitment to protecting animal health, strengthening agricultural supply chains, and supporting the veterinary and livestock industries with reliable, scalable cold chain solutions.
Animal Health
06/28/2025
Honoring Logistics in Animal Health Innovation
Logistics has always been the hidden force that makes complex things possible. On National Logistics Day, we recognize the systems and expertise that quietly keeps the animal health supply chain moving, and the animals we care for protected. The role of logistics for animal health goes far beyond transportation. Whether you’re delivering temperature-sensitive vaccines for livestock, beginning a clinical trial for an advanced therapy, or transporting reproductive materials to maintain the health of your herd, the integrity of the shipment is the integrity of the product.
Animal Pharmaceuticals
06/17/2025
Ensuring Safe, On-Time Deliveries for Animal Biopharma
Transporting advanced therapeutics for the animal health industry is just as time- and temperature-sensitive as human therapeutics, yet it is not often managed with the same level of care. This results in biologics and vaccines running into preventable risk during transit. Whether you’re supporting a clinical trial, delivering commercial supply, or responding to a health emergency, ensuring the quality, compliance, and visibility of every shipment is crucial.
Veterinary Support
05/20/2025
Why Animal Health Supply Chains Require Uncompromising Quality
Quality failures in animal health logistics do more than delay delivery, they put animal welfare at risk, threaten product efficacy, and erode public trust in veterinary medicine. Today’s biologics and vaccines are often made with temperature-sensitive proteins, viral vectors, or living cells, making the cold chain a essential operational function that directly impacts both clinical outcomes and commercial success.
Animal Pharmaceuticals
04/16/2025
Delivering Over 5 Billion Doses of Biotherapeutics to Protect Animal Health Worldwide
In 2024, Cryoport Systems achieved a remarkable milestone: the delivery of over 5 billion doses of biotherapeutics, including cell-based therapies, antibody-based therapies, and vaccines to the global animal health industry. This achievement is the result of our unwavering commitment to ensuring the health and well-being of animals across the world, from livestock that sustain global food supply chains to the beloved companion animals that enrich our lives.
Veterinary Support
02/20/2025
Protecting Animal Health: The Role of Safe Transport in Veterinary Medicine
Every pet owner knows the joy that animals bring into our lives. On Love Your Pet Day, we celebrate not only the animals that enrich our lives but also the dedicated professionals who work behind the scenes to keep them healthy. From veterinary clinics to animal health pharmaceutical companies, ensuring the safe transport of critical materials is a vital part of advancing animal medicine.
Expert Insights
02/12/2025
Industry Insights and the Role of Expert Supply Chain Management: Key Takeaways from IPPE 2025
The International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) continues to be a critical event for professionals in the poultry, meat, and animal food industries. As the world's largest annual showcase of technology, equipment, and services in these sectors, IPPE 2025 did not disappoint. With over 80 hours of educational programming and key discussions on sustainability, biosecurity, and industry advancements, the event set the stage for continuous growth within the animal health industry.
Expert Insights
01/10/2025
Navigating the Future: Top Trends for 2025 Shaping the Future of Animal Health
Unexpected challenges, rapid advancements, and continuous assistance – the animal health industry experienced a blend of ups and downs throughout 2024.
Expert Insights
12/23/2024
2024 Year in Review with Cryoport Systems’ Animal Health Expert, Tony Thomas
Unexpected challenges, rapid advancements, and continuous assistance – the animal health industry experienced a blend of ups and downs throughout 2024.
Veterinary Support
11/04/2024
Maximizing Equine Wellness with a Strong Winter Vaccination Strategy
The fall and winter months are a busy time for most people.
Livestock Management
10/24/2024
Improving Sustainability for Selective Breeding Programs with Secure Transport Solutions
In the animal health industry, selective breeding has proven to be a crucial factor in advancing livestock productivity, sustainability, and overall animal welfare.
Expert Insights
09/11/2024
Establishing Strategic Insight into the Animal Health Supply Chain with Tec4med
Establishing strategies to support risk mitigation is important to all animal health operations, but it’s especially vital to those who store their sensitive materials onsite.
Expert Insights
08/22/2024
ISO 21973: Aligning our Standards for Compliant Animal Health Shipments
In June 2020, the ISO/TC 276 Biotechnology Technical Committee defined a revolutionary standard for the transportation of cells for therapeutic use.
Animal Pharmaceuticals
07/30/2024
Shipping Certainty to the Animal Health Industry with the Cryoport Elite®
When it comes to transporting irreplicable materials like therapies for companion animals, animal health professionals need total protection and compliance.
Veterinary Support
06/04/2024
Standardizing Shipments of Companion Animal Pharmaceuticals
Cryoport Systems understands the importance of the bond that humans share with their companion animals. We work to protect this bond...
Livestock Management
05/02/2024
H5N1: How Cryoport Systems Supports Shipment Biosecurity
The highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) virus is sweeping the United States and affecting more than just poultry flocks.
Animal Health
04/25/2024
Tec4med’s Added Support for Animal Health Clients
Cryoport Systems is a part of a nexus of supply chain solutions companies all under Cryoport, Inc.
Livestock Management
03/30/2024
Three Factors that Affect the Success of Cattle Embryos
About one million in vitro produced (IVP) cattle embryos are transported worldwide each year to improve genetic gain rates.
Animal Pharmaceuticals
02/12/2024
Enabling the Outcome for the Animal Health Industry
Cryoport Systems entered the market over two decades ago to support the logistics processes of life sciences organizations. As industry demands evolved, our focus on supporting biopharma logistics expanded...
Animal Pharmaceuticals
12/19/2023
Superior Condition Monitoring Solutions for the Animal Health Industry
Cryoport Systems has been utilizing our near real-time condition monitoring solution that offers precise location information on shipments for over a decade.
Expert Insights
11/15/2023
How MVE Engineers Shippers for Secure Animal Health Transport
MVE Biological Solutions is Cryoport Systems’ provider of our diverse dewars and freezers. Their expertise is essential to Cryoport Systems’ transportation capabilities.
Livestock Management
10/18/2023
Storing Material for Healthy Herds: Insight from CRYOGENE’s COO, Leigh Anne Hill
Advancements in cryogenic storage capabilities have opened new possibilities for animal breeders to ensure the health and genetic diversity of their herds. In 2019, Cryoport acquired CRYOGENE...
Livestock Management
08/16/2023
The 5 Steps of Preparing Our Shippers for Transit
Clean and validated cryogenic packing is essential to compliantly ship biological material for the animal health industry. But how can you be sure that your supply chain management partner...
Livestock Management
08/01/2023
Transporting Superior Genetics: The Need for Beef-on-Dairy
The rise in domestic beef sales has presented dairy farmers with a profitable avenue to meet demand – beef-on-dairy. The process of crossbreeding dairy cows with beef genetics to produce...
Animal Pharmaceuticals
07/07/2023
Supply Chain Solutions for Animal Health Advancement
The future of medicine is an evolving landscape with possibilities not limited to the human population. Medical innovation for the animal health industry, specifically in reference to vaccine...
Expert Insights
04/13/2023
Predictions for the Animal Health Industry: Insight from Tony Thomas
Cryoport Systems’ support of the animal health industry helps keep both people and animals safe around the world. Our customized care and compliant solutions have continued to help...
Livestock Management
03/14/2023
The Safety & Security Facets of Shipping Livestock Materials
Biosecurity and herd health go hand in hand for all livestock species. As explained in a video from the 2022 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show, evaluating your biosecurity plan typically considers...
Veterinary Support
02/09/2023
Cryoport Systems and Zoetis Celebrate Their 10-Year Partnership
Cryoport Systems is pleased to commemorate a decade of supporting our animal health partner, Zoetis. We share Zoetis’ belief that animal health is essential to public health and humanity’s well-being.
Veterinary Support
11/16/2022
Cryoport’s Chain of Compliance®: Collects, Interprets, and Leverages Comprehensive Data to Enable a Significantly Smarter Supply Chain
Companies vying to be the first to market with breakthrough technologies have a great deal riding on the success of their efforts. Incorporating innovative processes, ethical considerations...
Expert Insights
11/10/2022
The Importance of Preserving Animal Biologics During Transport
Cryoport Systems' resident Animal Health expert, Tony Thomas, sat down with Andy Vance of Feedstuffs 365 at the 2022 World Dairy Expo to discuss how crucial it is to protect animal biologics during transit...
Veterinary Support
10/14/2022
Cryoshuttle® Local Delivery and Pickup: Now Serving More Areas
Many animal breeders and veterinarians often need to move their valuable pharmaceutical and reproductive materials locally for a variety of reasons such as lab transfers or administration at a point of care.
Expert Insights
09/07/2022
Unmatched Traceability and Shipment Monitoring: Only at Cryoport
Cryoport takes pride in providing complete transparency and traceability of shipments from the point of pickup to delivery. Our industry-leading condition monitoring system and custom-built logistics management platform...
Livestock Management
08/18/2022
Cryoport & MVE Synergies to Provide Best-in-Class Risk Mitigation Solutions for Animal Breeders
Cryoport Systems and MVE Biological Solutions, a Cryoport subsidiary, are industry leaders that provide unmatched temperature-controlled shipping solutions and state-of-the-art equipment for storage...
Animal Pharmaceuticals
07/19/2022
Human and Companion Animal Cancer Research Reveals Interesting Overlaps
Recently, at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, researchers have taken an extremely unique approach in their study of immunotherapy.
Expert Insights
06/20/2022
Cryoport Systems Launches First Two Global Supply Chain Centers
Cryoport Systems has exciting news this month! We have officially launched our first two Global Supply Chain Centers in Houston, Texas and Morris Plains, New Jersey.
Expert Insights
05/18/2022
New Product Launch: The Latest Enhancements to Cryoport Express® Standard & Combo Cryogenic Shippers
At Cryoport Systems, we are continuously striving to align with the latest science and technology advancements in our products and services, integrating the most advanced packaging...
Animal Pharmaceuticals
02/11/2022
Are You Ready for the Upcoming Data Network Transition? Here’s Everything You Need to Know
The future for global reproductive medicine shipments requiring critical near real-time chain of custody, chain of condition and Chain of Compliance® reporting will soon face a significant technology challenge.Categories
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