Tosoh to Increase Production Capacity of Separation and Purification Media

23-Aug-2022 - Tosoh Corporation has announced it will increase the production capacity of separation and purification media TOYOPEARL®and TSKgel®PW at its Nanyo Complex (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture) in response to the growing demand for antibody and oligonucleotide drug purification. Separation and ...

New separation technology for biomolecules

i3 Membrane receives 7 figure sum for development and market launch

26-Jan-2021 - Four investors are financing the further growth of i3 Membrane GmbH. High-tech venture capital investor HTGF from Bonn, Germany, and three private investors are together investing a 7 figure sum in the further development and market launch of new separation technology for biological molecules. ...

In the beginning was the phase separation

Was a simple mechanism decisive for the origin of life?

25-May-2018 - The question of the origin of life remains one of the oldest unanswered scientific questions. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now shown for the first time that phase separation is an extremely efficient way of controlling the selection of chemical building blocks and ...

Flowing cells in a wavy microchannel for effective size-based cell sorting

17-May-2018 - Nearly half a century ago scientists have noticed an interesting phenomenon that small particles flowing through a long tube can stay at a specific position along the cross-section of a tube. This is known as inertial focusing. Later, along with the development of microfluidic technology in ...

Biotage acquires Horizon Technology

Strengthens position in environmental and food safety

08-Dec-2017 - Biotage AB has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares in the privately held company Horizon Technology, Inc. (Horizon) based in New Hampshire, US, at a purchase price of approx. USD 18.4 million, corresponding to approx. SEK 153 million, based on an enterprise value of ...

Next generation solvent contributes to next generation biofuel production from biomass

05-Dec-2017 - The first-generation biofuel, industrialized, ethanol, is produced from foodstuffs like maize, and thus poses great concern about a possible future shortage of food. It is therefore necessary to produce ethanol from non-food biomass like weeds, waste paper, paper cup, etc. (second-generation ...

Supramolecular protein fishing with molecular baits

03-Mar-2017 - Scientists from the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC) successfully isolated a cancer-prone protein by fishing out the proteins using 'molecular bait'. Cancer, according to the American Cancer Society, affects 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women, with prostate and breast cancer the most common ...