Flow Calorimeter provides rapid enzyme screening.
March 22, 2012 -
Enabling characterization of enzyme activity to be achieved within 2-10 min/sample, chipCAL is suitable for monitoring biopharma, food, and fermentation processes. Technology employs flow principle, whereby enzyme and substrate are passed through thermodynamic cell simultaneously, allowing chipCAL to detect thermodynamic changes using volumes as low as 15 µL. Providing non-contact, label-free sample monitoring, calorimeter has working temperature of 15-60°C and can analyze up to 60 samples/8 hr.
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TTP LabTech Ltd
Melbourn Science Park
Melbourn, , SG8 6EE
United Kingdom
ChipCAL Microlitre Flow Calorimeter
TTP Labtech launches chipCAL - microliter flow calorimetry for rapid enzyme screening and optimisation
Enhance your enzyme discovery by discovering chipCAL at Pittcon 2012!
Cambridge, UK - Enhance enzyme discovery and optimisation with the new chipCAL, an innovative low cost, low volume flow calorimeter from TTP Labtech. chipCAL's fast throughput enables characterisation of enzyme activity to be achieved within 2-10 minutes per sample, thus opening the door to high-throughput enzyme screening. In addition, chipCAL is suitable for monitoring a range of processes in the biopharma, food and fermentation industries. TTP Labtech will showcase chipCAL on booth 3470 at Pittcon, March 11-15th 2012.
TTP Labtech's innovative technology employs a flow principle, whereby enzyme and substrate are passed through a thermodynamic cell simultaneously. This allows chipCAL to detect thermodynamic changes using volumes as low as 15 µL, minimising the amount of valuable sample used per analysis. chipCAL's microliter flow calorimetry also provides the additional benefit of non-contact, label-free sample monitoring. Dr Marcel van Tilborg, Corporate Scientist, DSM Biotechnology Centre, who has been closely involved in pilot studies using chipCAL said "finally it is possible to achieve fast, label-free and absolute activity measurements - a breakthrough for everyone using enzymes who need speed, accuracy and low cost in biological assays."
chipCAL is very easy to use. It has a wide working temperature range of between 15-60 °C, allowing a broad variety of biological activities to be analysed. Following analysis, samples are simply passed through to a waste unit and a new sample can be loaded, without the need for a laborious wash stage. This technology has the potential to significantly enhance high-throughput enzyme screening, being capable of analysing up to 60 samples in an 8 hour working day.
For further information on chipCAL, come and visit us at Pittcon, stand 3470, or visit www.ttplabtech.com/pittcon
About TTP Labtech Limited
Based near Cambridge, UK, TTP Labtech creates, designs and manufactures robust, reliable and easy-to-use instrumentation, offering life scientists better tools and techniques, simplifying complex operations and saving time and material costs.
We provide state-of-the-art solutions developed for specific product areas including: cell-based screening (acumen®, mirrorball®); sample management (comPOUND®), low volume liquid handling (mosquito®) and the management of analytical automation (lab2lab).
TTP Labtech is owned by its employees, and our continued drive to innovate combines cutting edge science with first rate engineering, manufacturing and outstanding customer support. www.ttplabtech.com
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