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Application Note

Advances in Immunogenicity Evaluation - Paving the Way for Safer Biolo...

Anti-drug antibodies (ADA) can modify the drug’s pharmacodynamics (PD) and/or pharmacokinetics (PK), making it crucial to detect them through an immun...

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A compendium for successful BLI and SPR assays
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A Compendium for Successful BLI and SPR Assays

A comprehensive guide for designing and performing assays that accurately measure the binding kinetics of biomolecular interactions and analyte concen...

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The End of End-Point Assays

Faster time-to results allows assessment of accurate and precise data earlier in the workflow

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Biomolecular Binding Kinetics Assays on the Octet® Platform

Introducing label-free platforms, the technology, capabilities, and advantages of label-free binding assessment

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Application Guides (17)

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Harmonizing Regulatory Guidelines for Assay Validation

Current regulatory guidelines for assay validation were harmonized for kinetic-based assay to derive a common set of parameters.

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Application Guide

Label-free to Decipher CRISPR/Cas Mechanisms

Octet® BLI to measure and characterize CRISPR/Cas mediated binding and Gene activation

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A compendium for successful BLI and SPR assays
Application Guide

A Compendium for Successful BLI and SPR Assays

A comprehensive guide for designing and performing assays that accurately measure the binding kinetics of biomolecular interactions and analyte concen...

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Octet® BLI Workflows in Small-Molecule Interaction Discovery and Characterization
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Small-Molecule Interaction Discovery and Characterization

With Octet® BLI Workflows

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Cell Line Development: Accelerating Antibody Discovery by Monitoring Titer and Glycosylation With the Octet® Platform
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Cell Line Development

Accelerating Antibody Discovery by Monitoring Titer and Glycosylation With the Octet® Platform

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Application Guide

Determining Nanoparticle Vaccine Antigenic Efficiency

Nanoparticle (NP) vaccine and antigen delivery platforms have emerged as a promising approach due to their ability to interact with immune components

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Stability, Formulations and Aggregation Studies

Expanding Octet® Applications in Downstream Biologics Characterization

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Accurate Measurements on the Octet® Platform

Without Added Sample Purification Steps

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Advancing Development of Coronavirus Vaccine and Therapeutics

BLI Technology Plays a Vital Role in the Race for a SARS-CoV-2 Treatment

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Recent Insights into Covid-19 Binding Epitopes

Researchers are using the Octet® system to understand the virus's binding mechanisms as a first step in the development of a vaccine

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Octet® Systems: Modernize Biopharmaceutical QC Testing to Increase Efficiency
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Modernize Biopharmaceutical Quality Control Testing

Quality control of biological products to support clinical trials and post market assay activities require the evaluation of multiple critical product...

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Label-Free Technologies

For Accurate Determination of Kinetics and Affinity Rate Constants

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Ligand Binding Assays That Meet Compliance with Octet® BLI Systems

Octet® GxP packages support the GMP compliant implementation, including 21 CFR Part 11 software, validation packages, and biosensor validation support...

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Characterizing Membrane Protein Interactions

By Octet® Bio-Layer Interferometry (BLI) Platforms

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A Simple Method to Determine Relative Potency (EC50)

Using Octet® BLI Technology

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Simplifying Biotherapeutic Manufacturing and Quality Control

With Label-Free Biosensor Technology

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Octet® Systems in Bioprocessing: Easy-to-Use and Cost-Effective Tools for Multiple Applications
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Octet® Systems in Bioprocessing: Easy-to-Use and Cost-Effective T...

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Application Notes (29)

Application Note

Advances in Immunogenicity Evaluation - Paving the Way for Safer Biolo...

Anti-drug antibodies (ADA) can modify the drug’s pharmacodynamics (PD) and/or pharmacokinetics (PK), making it crucial to detect them through an immun...

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Optimizing Kinetics Assays to Avoid Avidity Effects
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Optimizing Kinetics Assays to Avoid Avidity Effects

A fundamental understanding of the differences between affinity and avidity is essential when designing and developing assays

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Rapid, Automated, At-Line Adenovirus Quantitation Using Octet® BL...

Learn how we report the development of a rapid, high-throughput capsid assay for AV quantification on the Octet® BLI platform that demonstrates excell...

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Octet® R4 Bio-Layer Interferometry Platform SARS-CoV-2

Biophysical Characterization of the Binding of SARS-CoV-2 to the ACE2 Protein Using the Octet® R4 Bio-Layer Interferometry Platform

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Quantitation of Fc-Fusion Protein in Cell Culture Supernatants

The cell line development group at Biogen IDEC needed a robust assay for the measurement of Fc-fusion protein in crude cell culture supernatants.

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Octet® AAVX Biosensors for Rapid and Direct Quantitation of AAV Capsids
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Octet® AAVX Biosensors

For Rapid and Direct Quantitation of AAV Capsids

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Measure Pharmacokinetics of Monoclonal Antibodies

Scientists from Elanco® use Octet® BLI to rapidly design and establish a preclinical PK method for analyzing canine antibodies

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Customized Quantitation of Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins

Using Octet® SAX Biosensors

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Analysis of FcRn-Antibody Interactions on the Octet® Platform
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Analysis of FcRn-Antibody Interactions on the Octet® Platform

Assay design recommendations and best practices for producing the highest quality of kinetic data.

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Cross Competition or Epitope Binning Assays on the Octet® RH96 System

Epitope binning through cross competition assays is a powerful tool in evaluating functional diversity in antibody clones.

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Analysis of Fc-Gamma Receptor-IgG Interactions on the Octet® Platform
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Analysis of Fc Gamma Receptor IgG Interactions on Octet® Platform

Whether you're assessing FcRn-Antibody or FcγR-IgG binding interactions, you need a high throughput, versatile, and easy to use solution.

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Second Generation Anti-Human IgG Fc Capture Biosensors

For Affinity Characterization of Human IgG-Antigen Interactions and Quantitation of Human IgGs or Human Fc Region Containing Proteins 

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Mannose Glycans Content Screening for Human-mAb Samples

A novel approach for relative mannose content screening and ranking of human monoclonal antibody (mAb) samples using the Octet® GlyM Kit

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Biomolecular Binding Kinetics Assays on the Octet® Platform

Introducing label-free platforms, the technology, capabilities, and advantages of label-free binding assessment

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Validated Quantitation and Activity Assay of Antibody Fragment Molecule (Fab) for Process Development and Quality Control
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Validated Quantitation and Activity Assay of FaB

For Process Development and Quality Control

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MAb Quantitation Protein A HPLC vs Protein A Bio-Layer Interferometry

Rapid, accurate and cost-effective quantitation of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) is essential for bioprocessing.

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Potency Assay Development Qualification and Validation Strategies

A method for evaluating the binding of an Fc gamma receptor III (FcγR) molecule to the widely characterized NIST mAb.

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A Rapid Method to Quantitatively Screen Bispecific Antibodies Using Protein A and Octet® His1K Biosensors
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Screen Bispecific Antibody Using Protein A and His1K Biosensors

Rapid quantitative screening of bispecific antibodies using Protein A and HIS1K biosensors

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Accelerating Process Optimization in Cell Line Development

This application note describes the power of using the Octet® platform along with Ambr® 15 Cell Culture to identify optimum yield conditions.

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A Fast and High Precision Influenza Vaccine Potency Assay

An important understanding of vaccine development process performance, and for correctly scaling each process step.

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Rapid, Automated, At-Line AAV2 Virus Quantitation Advances Bioprocessing in Gene Therapy
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Rapid, Automated, At-Line AAV2 Virus Quantitation Advances Bioprocessi...

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Enhancing Efficiency and Economics in Process Development and Manufact...

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Performing Quantitation Assays Using Octet® N1 System

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Instant Determination of Protein Presence Using Octet® N1 System
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Instant Determination of Protein Presence Using Octet® N1 System

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Fast Quantitation of Proteins and Antibodies Using the Octet® N1 Syste...

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Reducing Variability in Small Molecule Screening and Kinetics Applicat...

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Generating Reliable Kinetic Data For Protein Ligand Interactions

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Optimizing Protein-Protein and Protein-Small Molecule Kinetics Assays
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Optimizing Protein-Protein and Protein-Small Molecule Kinetics Assays

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CaptureSelect Affinity Ligands For Antibody Detection And Characteriza...

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Converting ELISA Assay Into Octet® Quantitation Assay

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Brochures (3)

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Octet® R Series Systems

Accelerate your research with an upgradeable, label-free protein analysis platform

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Label-free Assays in a Drop (N1 Brochure)

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Octet®️ Systems Platform Brochure

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Case Studies (1)

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Bispecific Antibodies: From Research to Clinical Application Case Stud...

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eBooks (6)

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Rapid and Efficient Measurement of Critical Quality Attributes and Par...

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eBook: How Are Label-Free Technologies Used in Early Drug Discovery?
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How Are Label-Free Technologies Used in Early Drug Discovery?

Modern analytical techniques designed for real-time analysis and high-throughput capabilities significantly reduce the time to the discovery

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Label-Free Detection

Technologies, Key Considerations, and Applications

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Accelerating the Development and Manufacture of Therapeutics

Establish specificity, accuracy, precision, linearity and range as stipulated by USP 1032 requirements

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Overcoming the Challenges of Infectious Diseases

Explore the latest methodologies and strategies in the development of future vaccines fighting infectious diseases with label-free approaches

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Accelerating Vaccines and Virus Research

Live Cell Analysis, Advanced Flow Cytometry and Label-Free Binding Analysis

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Editorials (2)

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Addressing the Challenges of QC Labs in Vaccine Manufacturing

In cell culture-based vaccine manufacturing processes, microbial contamination control and impurity testing are crucial elements of quality control.

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Advancing the Development of COVID-19 Neutralizing Antibodies

Learn more about how virus-neutralizing antibodies have proven to be a key tool in the fight against SARS-CoV-2.

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Flyers (6)

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Octet® AT: For Octet® BLI Biosensor Transfer

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AAV Capsid Titer Data 80% Faster Compared to ELISA

Bioprocess Five Additional Batches of AAV Samples Annually

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Octet® Service Contracts - Protect Your Octet®, Pioneer and BLItz® Sys...

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New Octet®️ R Series of Systems Flyer

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Top Ten Reasons to Choose Sartorius Octet®️ BLI Technology to Accelera...

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Octet® BLI Biosensor Selection Guide

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Infographics & Posters (6)

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AAV Capsid Titer Data 80% Faster Compared to ELISA

Bioprocess Five Additional Batches of AAV Samples Annually

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Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine and Therapeutic DevelopmenT

Learn more about how Octet® systems are used to advance Coronavirus research and vaccine development

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Influenza Vaccine Titre Determination Bio-Layer Interferometry (BLI)

Fast, accurate determination of vaccine titre during influenza vaccine manufacture is important in understanding process performance and correctly sca...

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Octet® Bio-Layer Interferometry (BLI) Technology

Label-free alternative for characterizing protein-protein and drug-protein interactions in standard microtiter plate format

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High Productivity and Process Economy in GxP Applications

Quantitation assays must show precision, accuracy, linearity, and reproducibility

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Octet® BLI Systems

Unmatched Versatility for Discovery, Development and Quality Control

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Technical Notes (26)

Technical Note

Analysis of FLAG Proteins on the Octet®️ BLI Platform Using SAX or SAX...

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Octet® Kinetics Assay Method Development Guideline

Developing kinetics binding assays to establish specificity, accuracy, precision, linearity and range as stipulated by USP 1032

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Octet® AHC2 Biosensors

For Quantitation and Kinetic Characterization of Human Fc-Region Containing Proteins

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Octet® High Precision Streptavidin 2.0 (SAX2) Biosensors
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High Precision Streptavidin 2.0 (SAX2) Biosensors

Streptavidin is often deployed as the molecule of choice for covalent linking to solid surfaces for ligand binding assays applications.

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Octet® BLI Quantitation Assays: Method Development Guideline

Design and develop biological assays that conform to USP <1032> for accuracy, precision, linearity and limit of quantitation (LOQ) to be establi...

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CHO Host Cell Protein Detection
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CHO Host Cell Protein Detection

Designed for a rapid high-throughput quantitation of residual CHO Host Cell Proteins (HCPs) in bioprocessing samples during production and development...

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Octet® ProL Biosensors

For Quantitation of Whole-Molecule Antibody and Antibody Fragments

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Human and Mouse IgG Subtype Identification Using the Octet®️ Platform

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Octet®️ AMC2 Biosensors: For Quantitation and Kinetic Characterization of Murine IgG Antibodies
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Octet®️ AMC2 Biosensors: For Quantitation and Kinetic Characterization...

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Octet GlyM Kit Technical Note
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Octet® GlyM Kit

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Octet AAVX Biosensors for Quantitation of AAV Capsids
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Octet® AAVX Biosensors for Quantitation of AAV Capsids

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Small Molecule Binding Kinetics
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Small Molecule Binding Kinetics

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Host Cell Protein Detection

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Octet® Anti-Mouse IgG Fc Capture (AMC) Biosensors

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Amine Reactive Second-Generation (AR2G) Biosensors
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Amine Reactive Second-Generation (AR2G) Biosensors

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Octet® Amine Reactive SecondGeneration (AR2G) Reagent Kit technical note
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Octet® Amine Reactive Second-Generation (AR2G) Reagent Kit

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Biotinylation of Proteins for Immobilization onto Streptavidin Biosens...

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Octet® GST Biosensor Kinetics Assays technical note
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Octet® GST Biosensor Kinetics Assays

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Octet® GST Biosensor Quantitation Assays
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Octet® GST Biosensor Quantitation Assays

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Octet® NTA Biosensor Kinetic Assays technical note
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Octet® NTA Biosensor Kinetic Assays

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Octet® NTA Biosensor Quantitation Assays technical note
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Octet® NTA Biosensor Quantitation Assays

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Anti-HIS (HIS2) Biosensor Quantitation Assays technical note
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Anti-HIS (HIS2) Biosensor Quantitation Assays

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High Precision Streptavidin Biosensor (SAX) Quantitation and Kinetic A...

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Anti-Penta HIS (HIS1K) Biosensors for Label-Free Analysis of HIS-Tagge...

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Rapid Analysis of Fab Fragments and IgG with Anti-Human Fab2G Biosensors
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Rapid Analysis of Fab Fragments and IgG with Anti-Human Fab2G Biosenso...

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Residual Protein A Detection Kit
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Residual Protein A Detection Kit

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Webinars (15)

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A New Wave Biosensor Approach for AAV Process Development

REGENXBIO Inc. shares their experience in finding a high-throughput technique for AAV capsid concentration quantification.

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Affinity versus Avidity Webinar

The multivalent nature of antibodies can lead to avidity effects that skew binding affinity data. Hear from a protein analytics expert about avoiding...

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Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) Webinar

Simplifying the Characterization of the drug trastuzumab to Kadcyla®️ and Enhertu®️

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Reduce Cycle Times for AAV Quantification

See the Octet® AAVX Biosensor in comparison to an in-house assay on the Octet BLI platform.

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CHO for Accelerated Antibody Development

Explore applications of the CHO antibody simultaneous display and secretion technology

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Cell Surface SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein Modulates Host Immunity

Cell surface Nucleocapsid (N) protein may play an important role in host adaptive immunity to SARS-CoV-2

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Rapid Characterization and Selection of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Candidates

Using Bio-Layer Interferometry Technology, we developed a set of assays to identify antibodies with SARS-CoV-2 reactivity

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Bio-Layer Interferometry as a Strategic Platform

To validate covalent proximity inducing small molecules with synthetic tumor immunotherapeutic applications

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Novel High-Throughput Glycoanalytics for Biopharmaceuticals

Improve the overall drug discovery process to increase the success rate of preclinical candidates.

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Integrating Octet® BLI into Early Antibody Discovery Workflows

Improve the overall drug discovery process to increase the success rate of preclinical candidates

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Characterizing Critical Reagents in Support of Drug Development

BLI technology for affinity characterization antibodies can benefit critical reagent workflows

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Fragment Based Drug Discovery of Co-Factor Inhibitors for p97

Virtual screening of molecular databases and biochemical/biophysical techniques

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Optimers™️ - Future Ready Antibody Mimetics

Discover the new versatile Octet®️ R series and the use of Optimer™️ binders to improve affinity purification of novel biologics

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Drug Discovery with High-throughput Biomolecular Interaction Analysis

Learn how Octet® BLI works in therapeutic discovery and development, including common challenges and solutions

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Comparability Studies: Minimize Time, Maintain Quality

Developing Methods for Comparability Studies of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies

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White Papers (7)

Key Considerations for Automating Octet® Assays: Ligand Screening at Avitide
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Automating Octet® Assays for Ligand Screening

Drug development and production is challenging. Avitide, based in Lebanon, New Hampshire, provides on-demand development and supply of high-performanc...

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The End of End-Point Assays

Faster time-to results allows assessment of accurate and precise data earlier in the workflow

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Investigating Synthetic Immune Recruitment

by Proximity Inducing Molecules

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Streamlining Affinity Analysis for Accelerated Lead Screening

Antibody and other protein therapeutics are a major focus in drug discovery pipelines today

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Writing Grant Proposals for Biomolecular Interactions Research

Tips collected over the years from customers successful with their equipment grant proposals.

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Enhanced Productivity and Labor Efficiency

In Lot Release and In-Process Testing of Biologics in GxP Laboratories

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Octet Instrument Comparability Kinetics Precision Assessment
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Instrument Comparability Assessment: Kinetics Precision Assessment in...

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