BioAscent opens new protein production facility

Betsy Goodfellow | February 22, 2024 | News story | Manufacturing and Production BioAscent, Pharmacy, facility, protein production 

BioAscent has announced that it has opened its new state-of-the-art protein production facility in an event chaired by Professor Michael Barrett OBE.

The opening of this facility is the latest key investment by the company, aiming to strengthen its in-house drug discovery capabilities through being able to deliver protein production in house and implementing more informative screening for its customers.

The lab is intended to be run by BioAscent’s highly skilled protein scientists, who will now have the capacity to process samples under controlled conditions, with ‘equipment dedicated to the expression and purification of proteins from various systems including bacteria, mammalian and insect cells’, according to the company’s press release.

Stuart McElroy, director of Biosciences at BioAscent, commented: “Being able to access high-quality protein is the foundation for success in many drug discovery projects. Previously we were reliant on external sources for protein, meaning we had less control over the quality and were sometimes limited by availability as not all protein targets can be sourced on the reagent market. Having our own in-house facility means we can now rapidly generate multiple constructs or mutants to answer specific research questions during a project, such as identifying key binding site residues driving molecular recognition, providing structural biology, or tagging proteins differently to aid successful development of biophysical assays such as SPR.”

Betsy Goodfellow

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