Peak Proteins Blog Archives
Heather Hayes, one of our Green Team here at Peak Proteins gives an update on our efforts to reduce the amount of single use plastic we use. Did you know that an estimated 5.5 million tonnes of plastic waste [...]
Ben’s PIPs Placement Journey with Peak Proteins In this article PhD Student Ben Nash discusses his 3-month PIPs placement work at Peak Proteins, which involved the expression and purification optimisation of the G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) 5-HT2AR. Ultimately, Ben’s [...]
By Jade Bowen At Peak Proteins, we are often asked to purify a variety of complex and challenging proteins. One of the most difficult targets that we work with are membrane proteins, requiring additional steps and the use of [...]
By Anna Bennett The beginning of your career after university can be daunting, finding yourself in a new environment where everyone around you has lot more experience than you can certainly feel like a lot of pressure. When I [...]
Introducing our newest piece of equipment; the Labfors5 benchtop bioreactor from Infors! By Ailsa Townley, Cell Scientist Over the past year we have been receiving increasing numbers of requests for larger final quantities of protein. Therefore, we have had [...]
Throughout the Covid Pandemic, Peak Proteins has produced a number of SARS CoV-2 Proteins (SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and ACE2). We have validated some of these through SPR and Fida, and they have been used in published work. We have a [...]
We can hardly believe it’s just over 1 year since we became part of Sygnature Discovery, and it seemed a good time to look back and reflect on what’s been achieved this year with the support of being part [...]
Written by Dr Roberto Maya Here at Peak Proteins, we have a long history of expressing and purifying labelled proteins for our clients to support their NMR studies. With Dr. Roberto Maya, an NMR specialist, joining our team, coupled [...]
Written by Dr Duncan Smith and Dr Martin Jennings At Peak Proteins, we have been utilising the Fida platform (Flow Induced Dispersion Analysis) for the past six months, and it has quickly become an essential tool for our team. [...]
Written by Dr. Jack Wright and Dr. Steven Harborne Over the past 5-10 years, there has been an explosion in the field of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). The resolutions that can be achieved with the latest state-of-the art equipment and [...]
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