DiPIA conference, La Jolla, CA, 1-4 June 2014

We’re presenting a poster on ”Label-Free Interaction Analysis with Label-Enhanced Readout” at GE Healthcare’s DiPIA (Developments in Protein Interaction Analysis) conference in La Jolla, CA, 1-4 June 2014. Looking forward to meeting with lots of Biacore users in the US.

Don’t hesitate to contact us at sales@episentec.com to learn more about how high-performance label-free SPR analysis can be performed using our Label-Enhanced SPR technology.

 

Two new Application Notes

Application Note 019 describes competition-based screening and characterisation with label-enhanced SPR. Please note that in the competition format, the actual interaction between the analyte and the target is totally label-free while it’s only the readout that is label-enhanced.

Application Note 020 is a technology primer summarizing the basic aspects and applications of label-enhanced SPR.

Please check out our Application Notes page for more info or order the new documents directly from sales@episentec.com.

 

Drug Design & Medicinal Chemistry Conference, Berlin, 8-9 May 2014

We’re giving an oral presentation and presenting a poster on “Competition-based screening and characterization with Label-Enhanced SPR” at the Drug Design & Medicinal Chemistry Conference in Berlin, 8-9 May 2014. Check here for the full conference programme! Please don’t hesitate to contact us at the conference to discuss how we can help improve your SPR screens!

You are also welcome to contact us at info@episentec.com to book a meeting in advance.

Update on Technology & Applications

Our Technology & Applications web page has been thoroughly updated. We describe the functional principles behind label-enhanced SPR and how its strongly improved performance translates into benefits in different applications. Some interesting new references are also added.

Summary

The label-enhanced SPR technology of Episentec offers the following benefits:

  • Enhanced sensitivity: signal-to-noise ratio increased 100-fold.
  • Enhanced specificity: measurement is fully specific with respect to the dye label.
  • Compatibility with standard commercial SPR instruments.
  • Label-enhanced and label-free SPR simultaneously and in parallel.
  • Label-free analysis with outstanding sensitivity in competitive format.
  • Constant signal per bound molecule.
  • No bulk referencing needed.
  • Possibility to monitor two binders simultaneously.

Click here to check out the updated page!

Episentec – The Better Biosensor Company

 

Presenting B2 Dye Labels in Barcelona

We will participate in the Discovery Chemistry Congress in Barcelona, 18-19 February, and present a poster called “Competition-based screening and characterization with Label-Enhanced SPR”. The poster shows how the sensitivity of a Biacore™ instrument can be boosted 100-fold using our new B2 Series dye labels. Please stop by the poster for more information!

We have also published a new Application Note 018 describing highly sensitive kinetic analysis of small molecules on Biacore 2000 using the B2 Series dyes. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at sales@episentec.com for a copy of the Application Note, or for a Product Data Sheet or a Price List of our product range!

 

Season’s Greetings

The Episentec team would like to wish all customers, partners, and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We thank you all for interesting and fruitful contacts during 2013. We will kick-start 2014 with some really exciting product news, so please check back!

 

New Marketing & Sales Manager

We are proud to present Linnéa Babol, our new Marketing & Sales Manager. Linnéa holds a PhD from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences with a dissertation on the application of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) methods within food science. Linnéa’s most present appointment was as Sales Application Specialist at GE Healthcare/Biacore. With Linnéa’s diverse and extensive SPR experience, we will now be even better able to serve our SPR customers. You can contact Linnéa on sales@episentec.com.