Peak Proteins’ take on ‘A Christmas Carol’
by Head of BD, Hazel Weir. Thinking back on 2022 - a pretty momentous year for Peak Proteins (as well as the rest of the world!) - the story of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ came to mind – [...]
Margaret’s Christmas Cards
Christmas Congratulations to our artist-in-residence, Margaret Veldman-Jones, who recently raised over £400 for our nominated local charity, the East Cheshire Hospice, by selling her hand-designed Christmas to friends and colleagues. When she’s not dabbling in acrylics and paint, Margaret [...]
Options for Measuring the Concentration of Protein Samples
Recently we discovered that one of the biggest hits on our website was for our protocol on “Determining Protein Concentration by UV” which is obviously satisfying and we are glad that they are proving to be useful. We are [...]
Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
Last week, one of our experienced graduate protein scientists, Naimah Begum, was asked to be a panellist at a plenary session held for over 200 students, organised by Manchester University’s Biological Science department. The aim of the plenary was [...]
Biotinylation of Recombinant Proteins
What is Biotin? Biotin (or vitamin B7) is an essential coenzyme that is required by all organisms for life. Indeed, biotin’s name literally means ‘life giving’. Biotin is covalently linked near the active sites of four major classes of [...]
We say goodbye to Amelia Tollet
As we say farewell to Amelia Tollet at the end of her three month summer internship at Peak Proteins, Hazel Weir, Director of BD, caught up with Amelia before she left to go back to Liverpool University for the [...]
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells – A Biologics Powerhouse (past, present & future?)
The first FDA approved recombinant protein therapeutic developed in 1982 was insulin, developed by Genentech/Eli Lilly under the trade name Humulin. E. coli, transformed with recombinant human DNA, was used to express insulin, which was isolated, refolded, and purified. Since [...]
Peak Proteins Adopts the Fida 1 Platform
We are delighted to announce we have recently acquired a new instrument and software, the Fida 1 platform…from FidaBio! Why Fidabio? We were looking to enhance the quality control (QC) package for proteins we were generating for clients and [...]
How to Make Membrane Proteins and Not Unfold Them Q&A
Following our recent webcast “How to Make Membrane Proteins and not Unfold Them”, (produced by Peak Proteins and hosted by Nature Research Custom Media), Dr Steven Harborne and Dr Alice Rothnie answers some of the questions asked by attendees. [...]
Bionow Cancer Conference 27th Feb
Looking forward to exhibiting at Bionow's Accelerating Cancer Drug Development conference on Tues 27th Feb at Alderley Park, Cheshire. Hope to see some of you there. http://www.bionow.co.uk/events/acceleratingcancerdrugdevelopmentfromtargett.aspx
