A*STAR Bioprocessing Technology Institute (A*STAR BTI)
The protein and the plasma cell
29 Apr 2015Learning how a key protein affects programmed cell death could help to develop vaccines and drugs
How cells remember infections
17 Mar 2015Shp1 protein helps immune system develop its long-term memory
Mending broken hearts
20 Jan 2015A scalable platform for growing heart muscle cells may lead to repair of damaged heart cells
A better way to design genes
18 Nov 2014Web tool offers COOL approach to codon optimization for synthetic biology
A safe way to manipulate immune cells
7 Oct 2014An optimized technique allows B cells to be transfected with extraneous DNA without the use of viruses
Small particles, big productivity
12 Aug 2014Magnetic nanoparticles break the capacity barrier for antibody purification
Putting production in proportion
15 Jul 2014A library of sequences that modify relative gene expression enables tighter control over protein production
Sugarcoating a protein drug
3 Jun 2014Mammalian cells have been engineered to produce longer-lived versions of the therapeutic protein erythropoietin
Focusing on the sweet spot
11 Mar 2014A novel targeted mass spectrometry technique uncovers an elusive sugar modification in stem cells
A HEX that coaxes differentiation
17 Dec 2013A regulatory protein called HEXIM1 induces human pluripotent stem cells to adopt a more specialized cell fate
A biomarker for myeloma
2 Jul 2013A protein called FAIM could help doctors to parse which cancer patients will respond to multiple myeloma therapy
Convection trumps diffusion
21 May 2013Breakthrough technology quickly separates large proteins and viruses from their surroundings, which improves purification of vaccines and protein therapuetics