One of our newest members of staff, Rahaf Madi, gives her reflections on her first month here with us at Peak Proteins, including the training received and scientific challenges she encountered and how they were solved....teamwork was key to [...]
What is Design of Experiments (DoE) and why use it? Design of Experiments (DoE or sometimes DoX) is an umbrella term that has been coined to cover a particular statistical design and evaluation approach to performing experiments. In essence [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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