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Meet the world’s youngest benchtop SPR user: 17-Year-Old Eric Wang
As life science researchers, we all understand the importance of obtaining reliable, consistent binding kinetics for biomolecular interactions. Researchers also know that using SPR to measure these ki...
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Mastering the Art of Regeneration – The Key to SPR Success
Using surface plasmon resonance to get high-quality binding kinetics is definitely rewarding, but the biggest challenge is often finding the right experimental conditions to get optimal binding kineti...
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Nicoya Hires Senior Sales and Marketing Executive Jim Harp to Drive Global Expansion
Nicoya recently hired Jim Harp to serve as their VP of Business Development. Nicoya is looking to fuel the growth of OpenSPR through expanding internationally via channel partners and strategic OEM pa...
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Why Every Biochemistry Teaching Lab Needs SPR Technology
SPR is a gold standard technique used in the biotechnology industry to measure binding kinetics and molecular interactions. This data is of critical importance – it helps scientists understand how d...
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Automated Surface Plasmon Resonance Levels the Playing Field in Protein Science
On January 20, we announced our newest product, OpenSPR-XT – a fully automated molecular analysis instrument based on the highly successful OpenSPR instrument. The release of OpenSPR-XT will provid...
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Our Top 5 Biosensor Enabled Digital Health Tech Gadgets from CES 2016
Biotech is changing the world, and everyone knows it. There is nothing more exciting than hearing about the newest biotech apps and gadgets that will help us maintain our health for years to come. Man...
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6 Advantages of Surface Plasmon Resonance Technology
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) has been around for more than 20 years, yet many researchers still rely on outdated techniques to characterize biological interactions because of the cost and complexit...
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Discover Why RNA Interactions and Binding Kinetics Matter
Using SPR for RNA Binding Kinetics at Rustbelt Meeting 2015 We recently attended the wonderful Rustbelt RNA meeting in Sandusky, Ohio organized by Blanton Tolbert and Charles Hoogstraten. The yearly m...
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SPR Tips: 3 Ways To Limit Mass Transfer Effects In Kinetic Data
In surface plasmon resonance, the reactant in a solution must first diffuse from the bulk to the surface to interact with the immobilized ligand. If the diffusion rate is slower than the association r...
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How to Become a Surface Plasmon Resonance Superhero: Top 5 Things We Learned at SensorCon 2015
SensorCon One was a 4 day intensive training course/conference hosted in Salt Lake City, UT by David Myszka and Rebecca Rich of Biosensor Tools. They are both leaders in the field of label-free analys...