Wednesday, May 6, 2015 Daily Archives

Lucigen Corporation Expands Technological Reach With Exclusive Sigma-Aldrich Distribution Agreement

Lucigen Corporation announced today that it has signed an exclusive distributorship agreement with Sigma-Aldrich Corporation’s (NASDAQ: SIAL) India subsidiary, Sigma-Aldrich Chemicals Private Ltd., to expand commercialization of life science reagents in India. The synergy between the two companies will provide researchers in India an enhanced customer experience, strong technical support, and easy access to Lucigen’s broad portfolio of products and services. Ralph Kauten, CEO & Chairman of the Board for Lucigen Corporation, noted, “Sigma-Aldrich’s market knowledge and logistics operations in…

Design of a New Range of High Capacity and High Flow Agarose Resins

With the continuing development of high titer cell lines, resins with very high capacity at relevant residence times are becoming increasingly important. This paper will present application and characterization data from a set of novel, agarose-based resins, with ion exchange functionality as well as with immobilized alkaline stable Protein A. The cation exchanger has a dynamic binding capacity of more than 120 mg monoclonal antibody/mL resin without the introduction of surface extenders. Performance data from an alkaline stable Protein A…