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Horseshoe Crabs and Endotoxins

2025-03-18T15:39:06+00:00March 30th, 2022|Our Blog|

With over 4 billion people to date (March 2022) having received a Covid-19 vaccination, the human race owes a huge debt to countless researchers, healthcare workers and volunteers. Many of us would not be aware, however, that we also [...]

Inclusion bodies, enemy or ally?

2024-07-31T14:09:27+00:00February 23rd, 2022|Our Blog, Protein Purification|

What are inclusion bodies? Recombinant protein expression has revolutionised biochemical research, allowing the study of protein interaction and function. Here at Peak Proteins, we specialise in the expression and purification of recombinant proteins. The vast majority of proteins in [...]

Protein and the Planet

2024-06-27T14:45:07+00:00January 24th, 2022|Our Blog|

Being a biochemist, who is also concerned with sustainability, I was interested to look into where biotechnology and specifically recombinant proteins are being applied as solutions to help combat the impact we humans have had (and are still having) [...]

Mutations, Mutations, Mutations

2021-12-15T16:01:05+00:00July 28th, 2021|Our Blog, Protein Purification|

The mutations seen in the COVID-19 Variants of Concern The coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease responsible for the current worldwide pandemic. It is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus which is an enveloped, positive-strand RNA virus. SARS-CoV-2 uses the [...]

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