The diagnostics industry is constantly under pressure to bring innovation quicker to market and so the impetus to speed up product-development cycle times becomes greater. There are a number of steps in the product-development cycle where the application of high-throughput screening can help. In the case of lateral-flow immuno-diagnostics the selection of antibody reagents is paramount. In part...

T he search for novel organic molecules with biological activity on human, animal, and plant physiological systems has passed through many phases over the centuries. From first steps testing single molecules on whole living systems to fully automated high-throughput screening (HTS) testing tens or hundreds of thousands of molecules per day on purified protein targets, the search has become ever...

Michael J. McLachlan, Ryan P. Sullivan and Huimin Zhao Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champa...

Fig. 1: Steps during process development. HTPD as a first step can help to generate a large knowledge space and improve process understanding. That advances the quality-by-design concept regarding the FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) initiative “PharmaceuticalcGMPs for the 21 century” and ICH International Conference on Harmonisation of technical requirements for the registration of pharmac...

The aims of high-throughput (HTP) protein production systems are to obtain well-expressed and highly soluble proteins, which are preferred candidates for use in structure-function studies. Here, we describe the development of an efficient and inexpensive method for parallel cloning, induction, and cell lysis to produce multiple fusion proteins in Escherichia coli using a 96-well format. Molecul...

Ion channels present a group of targets for major clinical indications, which have been difficult to address due to the lack of suitable rapid but biologically significant methodologies. To address the need for increased throughput in primary screening, the authors have set up a Beckman/Sagian core system to fully automate functional fluorescence-based assays that measure ion channel function. ...

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1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand 2Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8511, Japan 3Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences, College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57006, USA 4Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, Nation...

We introduce an optical platform for rapid, high-throughput screening of exogenous molecules that affect cellular mechanotransduction. Our method initiates mechanotransduction in adherent cells using single laser-microbeam generated micro-cavitation bubbles (μCBs) without requiring flow chambers or microfluidics. These μCBs expose adherent cells to a microTsunami, a transient microscale burst o...

Chikungunya virus (CHICKV) is an arboviruses belonging to family Tagoviridae and is transmitted to human through by mosquito (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) bite. A large outbreak of chikungunya has been reported in India between 2006 and 2007, along with several other countries from South-East Asia and for the first time in Europe. It was for the first time that the CHICKV outbreak has be...