It is not just the food that Muslims consume that needs to be tested and certified to be halal compliant, pharmaceutical drugs and prescriptive medicine too are being scrutinized for its suitability for the over 1.8 billion global Muslim population. Based on what I have heard and seen for myself on the growing necessity by…
Downloads Click here to download (PDF, 75 KB) It is important for fish farming that protein and amino acid requirements are known and matched for each of the fish species reared to maximise growth and health of the fish. Fish nutrition has advanced in recent years due to the development of new, balanced commercial diets…
Quick, label-free methods with minimal sample prep for simultaneously measuring rAAV aggregation, capsid charge, and particle concentration. Date recorded: July 15, 2021 Viral vectors, such as Recombinant Adeno-Associated Viruses (rAAV) Adenoviruses (AV) are increasingly being used in the development of gene therapies and vaccines. The efficient development of viral vectors order to develop effective therapies and…
Recent breakthroughs with mRNA-based vaccines highlight the potential of lipid-based particles as powerful and versatile delivery vectors for vaccines and gene therapies. Used to measure particle size, stability, zeta potential and particle concentration, light scattering techniques are used extensively in the characterization of lipid nanoparticle and liposome research. The Zetasizer range of light scattering instruments…
Downloads Characterization of Microplastics using Morphologically-Directed Raman Spectroscopy by Malvern Panalytical (PDF, 2 MB) Microplastics are a global environmental and potential health issue. They can be released directly from the production or use of consumer products or the fragmentation of larger plastic objects. Geographically microplastics are present everywhere on Earth and have pervaded our food…
During an SPR experiment, there are many experimental parameters that must be controlled in order to optimize the performance of the system and to generate high-quality binding data. Of these parameters, minimizing non-specific binding (NSB) is one of the most imperative as it can directly affect the accuracy of your kinetic data. SPR experiments typically…
SPR is a label-free technique that enables you to get in depth information on how two biomolecules are interacting. This is done on a sensor inside of an instrument such as the OpenSPR or Alto. SPR instruments are primarily used to measure binding affinity and kinetics, and are becoming increasingly more affordable and accessible as…
Read on to learn about the two most common approaches for measuring binding kinetics, multi-cycle kinetics (MCK) and single-cycle kinetics (SCK), and how to select the right one for your interaction.
Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) with the Particle Metrix ZetaView® instrument family allows fast and reliable measurement of size, concentration, and Zeta Potential of nanoparticles. In contrast to scatter-based particle detection, fluorescence detection capability of the ZetaView® instrument allows the user to get biochemical information about particles. This increases the resolution and discriminatory power of the data. Furthermore,…
The term “pH” is derived from either “pondus hydrogenii” or “potentia hydrogenii”. Both are originally Latin phrases, with “pondus hydrogenii” meaning “weight of hydrogen” and “potentia hydrogenii” meaning “power of hydrogen”. The pH value is a non-dimensional number that measures how acidic or alkaline an aqueous solution is. It is defined as the negative decimal…