Manual production of recombinant baculoviruses is labour-intensive, time consuming, and challenging, but this workstation provides baculovirus protein expression without protocol development
NextGen Sciences is launching the Baculoworkstation - said to be the first precision automated platform for robust, reproducible, high throughput baculovirus production.
The system has been developed by leading insect cell expression scientists and, for the first time, offers an automated system to optimise and accelerate insect cell protein expression.
The Baculoworkstation, which is available now, has been designed by NextGen Sciences to address the issues facing researchers using insect cells for protein expression.
The manual production of recombinant baculoviruses is a labour-intensive, time consuming, technically challenging process.
The Baculoworkstation automates these processes, providing out-of-the-box baculovirus protein expression and removing the need for protocol development or robotics programming.
Commenting on the system, Kevin Richards, senior researcher at NextGen Sciences, said: "The input from insect expression specialists has ensured that the system addresses the most important user issues.
"For example, for the first time researchers can work with pre-optimised protocols to get up and running in the shortest time, while increasing throughput and reproducibility".
The core capabilities of the baculoworkstation include the automation of cell seeding into 24-well plates, transfections, infections, viral dilutions, and parallel expression screening.
The system also has the facility for in-house protocol development, with expert application support provided by the development team.
Grant Cameron, NextGen Sciences's commercial director, commented: "This new addition to our gene-to-protein suite of products underlines our strategy to provide first-to-market solutions to improve protein research.
"Researchers are increasingly turning to insect cells to express the proteins they require, and with our in-house baculovirus expertise and integrated automation and software experience, NextGen Sciences is uniquely positioned to address this rapidly expanding market".
NextGen Sciences is a provider of technologies and reagents for molecular biology and protein research.
The company's products automate and simplify complex research techniques, saving time and resources, improving results and accelerating discovery.
With a team of skilled individuals comprising expert discovery scientists, software and design engineers, NextGen Sciences says it is uniquely positioned to rapidly progress technology solutions from design concept to market.
The company has a strong track record of launching first to market products and has achieved an international reputation for successfully commercialising technology, it says.
The Baculoworkstation is the first precision automated platform for robust, reproducible, high throughput baculovirus protein expression.
The advanced system automates the processes involved with production of recombinant baculoviruses, providing out-of-the-box baculovirus protein expression and removing the need for protocol development or robotics programming.
The core capabilities of the Baculoworkstation include the automation of cell seeding into 24-well plates, transfections, infections, viral dilutions, and parallel expression screening.
The system also has the facility for in-house protocol development, with expert application support provided by the development team.
