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The Metrology of Counting Protein Particles

March 18, 2013
Author(s)
Dean C. Ripple, Michael J. Carrier, Richard E. Cavicchi, Christopher B. Montgomery, Zhishang Hu
A common degradation pathway for protein-based drugs is the growth of protein aggregates or particles. Counting and characterization of these particles is needed to assure the quality, efficacy, and safety of this type of drug. The unusual physical

Mouse Cell Line Authentication

February 13, 2013
Author(s)
Jamie L. Almeida, Carolyn R. Steffen, Kenneth D. Cole
The scientific community has responded to the misidentification of human cell lines with validated methods to authenticate these cells; however, there are few assays available for nonhuman cell line identification. We have developed a multiplex polymerase

Breast Cancer Biomarker Measurements and Standards

January 24, 2013
Author(s)
Kenneth D. Cole, Lili Wang, Hua-Jun He
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease characterized by changes in the levels and activities of important cellular proteins, including oncogenes and tumor suppressors. Genetic mutations cause changes in protein activity and protein expression levels that result

Collaborative Robotics: Measuring Blunt Force Impacts on Humans

October 12, 2012
Author(s)
Joseph A. Falco, Jeremy A. Marvel, Richard J. Norcross
Robot manufacturers are developing a new generation of industrial robots that are designed to work in collaborative environments in close proximity to humans. In parallel, an international standards effort is developing a technical specification to support

Protein Particles: What We Know and What We Dont Know

June 26, 2012
Author(s)
Dean C. Ripple, Mariana Dimitrova
All therapeutic protein products contain particles formed by the aggregation of protein monomers. There is a growing interest in the understanding of particles in biopharmaceutical products, which has been fostered on the one hand by significant

A Lectin-Based Gold Nanoparticle Assay for Probing Glycosylation of Glycoproteins

April 17, 2012
Author(s)
Germarie Sanchez-Pomales, Todd A. Morris, James Falabella, Michael J. Tarlov, Rebecca A. Zangmeister
We report a glycoanalysis method in which lectins are used to probe the glycans of glycoproteins that are adsorbed on gold nanoparticles. A model mannose-presenting glycoprotein, ribonuclease B (RNase B), and the therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb)

Carbohydrate-Functionalized Surfactant Vesicles for Controlling Glycan Density

March 15, 2012
Author(s)
Monique A. Makos, Rebecca A. Zangmeister
We report on the development of a method for rapidly characterizing the glycan binding properties of lectins. Catanionic surfactant vesicles were prepared that spontaneously formed in water and remained stable at room temperature for months. By varying the

Standards for the Optical Detection of Protein Particulates

January 23, 2012
Author(s)
Dean C. Ripple, Michael J. Carrier, Joshua R. Wayment
Particulates in protein therapeutics, composed of agglomerated protein monomers, may cause an immunogenic response in patients. Consequently, industry and the FDA desire more accurate methods for counting and characterizing particulates. Unlike likely

PDH-locked, frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectrometer

June 16, 2011
Author(s)
Joseph T. Hodges, A. Cygan, Piotr Maslowski, Katarzyna E. Bielska, S. Wojtewicz, J. Domyslawska, Hisashi Abe, R.S. Trawinski, R. Ciurylo
We describe a high sensitivity and high spectral resolution laser absorption spectrometer based upon the frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS) technique. We used the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method to lock the probe laser to the high

Recent Advances in Electrochemical Glyco-biosensing

April 8, 2011
Author(s)
Rebecca A. Zangmeister, Germarie Sanchez-Pomales
Biosensors based on electrochemical transduction mechanisms have recently made advances into the field of glycan analysis. These glyco-biosensor assays offer simple, rapid, sensitive and economical approaches to the measurement need for rapid glycan

Quantification and Compensation of Unintentional Analyte Aggregation in Electrospray Sampling

March 30, 2011
Author(s)
Mingdong M. Li, Suvajyoti S. Guha, Rebecca A. Zangmeister, Michael J. Tarlov, Michael R. Zachariah
Electrospray (ES) sources are commonly used to introduce non-volatile materials (e.g. nanoparticles, proteins, etc.) in to the gas phase for characterization by mass spectrometry and ion mobility. Recent studies in our group using electrospray ion mobility

Monitoring Photothermally Excited Nanoparticles via Multimodal Microscopy

May 19, 2010
Author(s)
Matthew L. Clarke, Shin G. Chou, Jeeseong Hwang
Generation of heat using optically excited nanoparticles can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the application. Therefore, clinically applicable studies are being pursued in an effort to achieve safe practices of nanoparticle-induced hyperthermia

Low-Cost, High-Throughput, Automated Counting of Bacterial Colonies

January 5, 2010
Author(s)
Matthew L. Clarke, Robert L. Burton, A. N. Hill, Maritoni A. Litorja, Moon H. Nahm, Jeeseong Hwang
Research involving bacterial pathogens often requires enumeration of bacteria colonies. Here we present a low-cost, high-throughput colony counting system consisting of colony counting software and a consumer-grade digital camera or document scanner. We
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