The development of new drugs and diagnostic assays requires the ability to identify and prepare high-affinity, high-specificity ligands. Monoclonal antibodies are useful reagents in this regard, but are difficult to humanize and express in large amounts. Monoclonal antibodies are also intrinsically limited by the immunological repertoire of the immunized...

Because of their unique recombinant properties, fusion proteins are of intense interest in many biotechnology applications. Current methods to specifically detect expression of fusion proteins exist; but, they are either unsuitable for high throughput (HTP) processes, in the case of western blots, or are non-qualitative, in the case of ELISAs. Assessment...

Synthetic genomics, though a relatively nascent field, is generating a lot of excitement in the scientific community, especially with the advent of unnatural nucleic acid polymers. Threose nucleic acid (TNA) is one such unnatural nucleic acid polymer that is particularly promising because of its high resistance to nuclease degradation, making it much...

The field of synthetic genetics is generating a lot of excitement in the synthetic biology community, especially with the advent of xeno-nucleic acid polymers (XNAs) that can be replicated by standard molecular biology techniques. DNA and RNA have had limited utility in diagnostics and therapeutics because of their rapid degradation by nucleases. XNA...