March 2024 Newsletter
March 19, 2024
News you can use
AUTOMATED LIQUID HANDLING PLATFORM FOR SMALL-SCALE PROTEIN PURIFICATION APPLICATIONS
The JANUS® G3 BioTx™ automated workstations enable consistent small-scale protein purification and sample prep for analytical protein characterization required to support quality by design experimentation in both upstream and downstream processes. Automating sample prep provides researchers more time to focus on new analytical tests obtaining critical information earlier in the protein development pipeline. Time and labor savings accelerate project workflows and thus, commercialization of protein therapies.
Employee spotlight
Jennifer Arruda - Scientist I
Jennifer established her career later in life and found her passion in protein biochemistry and structural biology. She brings to us 14 years of experience in both academia and industry. Her experiences span areas such as protein expression in multiple expression systems, microbial fermentation, protein purification, and assay development.
Featured services
Protein Production - Helix BioStructures is a leading provider of gene-to-structure services. We are equipped with all the instruments & capabilities (Multiple expression systems, Shaking incubators, 5L Bioreactor, Microfluidizers, ÄKTA purification systems, Protein characterization, etc.) required to produce small to large-scale and high-quality structural biology grade proteins. We provide gene-to-protein service for your research needs and also produce proteins for X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, and Biophysical characterization services at industrial speed and affordable rates. Contact us today to discuss how we can help you with your protein production projects.
Helix highlights
Helix field trip to IU PBIF!
In early February, the Helix team made a field trip to IU PBIF (Indiana University Bloomington, Physical Biochemistry Instrumentation Facility). Helix now has access to multiple additional instruments through IU PBIF.We are excited to provide our clients with various biophysical characterization services (ITC, SPR, BLI, MST, DLS, TSA, CD, LC/MS, SEC-MALS, Mass Photometry, and more).Contact us today to discuss how we can help you with your biophysical characterization needs.
Instrument review
Mosquito® Xtal3
The mosquito® Xtal3 adds to our lineup of crystallization robots. It provides increased efficiency for plate setup, extremely low volume drop setting (30-50nL), a customized humidity chamber to protect those small volume drops, and superb reproducibility. The touchscreen interface gives this instrument a high-tech modern feel that is extremely user-friendly. This robot will be the workhorse behind Helix's crystallization and will greatly benefit our customers' projects. We are super excited about the dragonfly®! Long gone are the days of spending an hour to make a custom deep-well block or 96-well gradient screen manually by hand. This multi-channel dispensing robot delivers it all. We are able to painlessly create customized crystallization screens to help optimize or reproduce crystals. Paired with the MXone® mixer; we are now setting up optimization screens in a matter of 10-15 minutes.
Conferences & more
