Downstream Processing Featured Articles

31. Researchers 'Watch' Antibiotics Attack Tuberculosis Bacteria Inside Cells 11/1/2012

    Weill Cornell Medical College researchers report that mass spectrometry, a tool currently used to detect and measure proteins and lipids, can also now allow biologists to "see" for the first time exactly how drugs work inside living cells to kill infectious microbes.

32. Engineered Tissue Vary Depending On Where It's Grown 8/16/2012

    MIT researchers led by Elazer Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, have now shown that implanted cells’ therapeutic properties depend on their shape, which is determined by the type of scaffold on which they are grown. 

33. Kimberly-Clark Professional Launches Innovative RightCycle Program To Recycle Single-Use Cleanroom And Laboratory Gloves And Garments 4/25/2013

    To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste. 

34. NIH-Funded Researchers Create Next-Generation Alzheimer's Disease Model 4/9/2013

    A new genetically engineered lab rat that has the full array of brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease supports the idea that increases in a molecule called beta-amyloid in the brain causes the disease, according to a study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

35. Diabetes Research Reveals Important Link To Overcoming 'Lazy Insulin Granules' 7/26/2012

    Scientists at Toronto Western Research Institute have made an important discovery on the role of a SNARE protein known as VAMP8 in the release  of insulin from the pancreatic islet beta cells. 

36. How To Protect High-Value Media With Single-Use Connectors

    When dealing with high-value products in your downstream processes, the last thing you want is for your media to end up on the plant floor.

37. New Hope For Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders 11/21/2012

    Researchers from McGill University and the University of Montreal have identified a crucial link between protein synthesis and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which can bolster new therapeutic avenues. Regulation of protein synthesis, also termed mRNA translation, is the process by which cells manufacture proteins.

38. GE Healthcare Launches FF High Performance Nitrocellulose Membranes Optimized For Diagnostic Assay Reproducibility 8/1/2012

    GE Healthcare Life Sciences’ new Whatman FF High Performance (HP) membrane provides the industry with a new diagnostic membrane to enable fast, razor-sharp line separation and highly reproducible results for the detection of target molecules in liquids such as water, urine, blood and saliva.

39. Shimadzu's Nexera MP UHPLC With Multi-Plate Autosampler Provides High-Speed Analysis With Three Times More Sample Capacity For LC/MS 3/21/2012
    Shimadzu Scientific Instruments now offers the Nexera MP ultra-high performance liquid chromatography system with the SIL-30ACMP Autosampler.
40. GE Healthcare Launches New Modular Chromatography System For Protein Purification 9/5/2012

    GE Healthcare launches the of ÄKTA™ pure, a chromatography system for flexible, reliable and intuitive purification of proteins with the flexibility to support both routine and challenging purification requirements, as well as being adaptable to changing research needs.