Cambridge University Selects System for Protein Adsorption Monitoring

The ActiPix D-100 system from Paraytec has been selected by Cambridge University. This is to enable research into high-throughput micro channel separations of recombinant proteins within microcapillary films.

Professor Nigel Slater, Dr Nick Darton and Dr Nuno Reis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge University are developing high-throughput micro channel separations for recombinant proteins within MicroCapillary Films (MCF's). MCFs contain any number of uniform, parallel capillaries within a flat polymer film and can be fabricated from a range of low-cost polymers using a cheap extrusion process.

Professor Nigel Slater commented, “Our team chose the ActiPix system from Paraytec to study this process because it is uniquely designed to simultaneously image up to eight different capillaries at the same time – providing spatial, temporal and concentration data of adsorbed and eluted proteins.”

The ActiPix D100, is the world's first quantitative UV area imaging system according to the company.

Applications for the technology can be broadly classified into two types – area imaging or capillary based.