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Biotech accelerators offer funding, mentorship, and a variety of business support to early-stage biotech startups looking to scale and, eventually, commercialize a product. Many of these organizations...
November 2022
Biotech accelerators are cohort-based, fixed-term programs that offer startup founders access to early-stage capital, hands-on mentorship, industry-specific education, and tailored resources designed ...
November 2022
It isn’t uncommon to learn that a biotech startup was created while the founders were working in a research laboratory at a university. Church Lab is an excellent example of this, and has shown that t...
November 2022
Application & Overview Protein A magnetic beads are an affinity matrix for the purification and isolation of antibodies or immunoglobulins. The beads are formed by covalently linking the truncated...
October 2022
Immunoprecipitation is a small-scale affinity purification technique to enrich or isolate a protein from biological samples, such as tissue or cell lysate. It works on the principle of antigen-antibod...
October 2022
Naturally occurring interactions have been a great tool in a spectrum of labs, ranging from biotechnology and applied physics to medicine and biochemistry to achieve countless scientific milestones. O...
October 2022
Streptavidin: Overview Streptavidin is a tetrameric protein isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces avidinii. It’s highly known for its lesser non-specific binding with the biotin (or Vitamin H) mole...
October 2022
Argonaut proteins are an essential component of the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), responsible for RNA silencing — also known as RNA interference (RNAi). The protein name is derived from ...
September 2022
FLAG TAG: Overview The FLAG tag is a protein tag widely used in protein purification procedures for the high specificity and purity of target proteins. When high purity is required, it is commonly use...
September 2022
Sulfurylase: Overview Sulfurylase is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction forming pyrophosphate and adenylyl sulfate as products from ATP and sulfate substrates. The enzyme is also known as ...
September 2022
