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TLC is the tool most used for normal-phase flash chromatography method development. For many chemists, a solvent system of hexane (or heptane) + ethyl acetate is the first, and sometimes only, solvent...
In recent years, most of the interest in the medicinal cannabis market has been focused on CBD (THC-free) and, to a lesser extent, THC. However, the market needs are changing with increasing interest ...
Cannabichromene (CBC) is one of the four most prevalent cannabinoids expressed by cannabis plants (Pollastro, 2018). Unlike the psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol, CBC is benign in this regard, but doe...
The answer to this question is yes, reversed-phase can sometimes provide a better separation and thus better purification than normal-phase. When is reversed-phase likely to be the better choice is a ...
In many of my previous posts I have used the term column volume, typically abbreviated as CV, as a value used to help determine separation quality and loading capacity. However, I recently was asked a...
Cannabis entrepreneurs continually seek to differentiate themselves from others in the market. Some focus on THC while others focus on CBD.
According to a relatively newly published journal article (Bielser et al. Aug 20 2019, J Biotech), there has been a renewed interest in the science community in perfusion cell culture technologies for...
For anyone looking to automate their protein expression platform, the book “High-Throughput Protein Production and Purification” that was published in July 2019 (ISBN 978-1-4939-9624-7) is an excellen...
Dual flow chromatography (DFC) is the unique process of performing chromatography separations in a column bed loosely packed at the end of a pipette tip, retained by a minimally absorbing, proprietary...
Immunoprecipitation is a well-known method in biomedical research for protein isolation. This method is useful to be able to study a protein’s physiochemical properties, post-translational modificatio...