Abstract: The present disclosure relates to synthesis of heparin, which may be bioequivalent to porcine USP Heparin Sodium. The synthesis may involve three intermediates starting from heparosan.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to synthesis of heparin, which may be bioequivalent to porcine USP Heparin Sodium. The synthesis may involve three intermediates starting from heparosan.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to synthesis of heparin, which may be bioequivalent to porcine USP Heparin Sodium. The synthesis may involve three intermediates starting from heparosan.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus of immobilizing a biocatalyst on a microfluidic biochip for conducting reactions in the presence of electroosmotic flow. The biochip includes a polymer on its microfluidic flow surfaces, wherein the polymer includes a first substituent selected from ionic groups of the same polarity or precursors thereof, a second substituent that is a hydrophobic group, and a third substituent comprising an immobilized biocatalyst-or precursor thereof. The biochip can be used to conduct multiple sequential biocatalyzed reactions in the presence of electroosmotic flow.

Abstract: A system and method for conducting high-throughput interactions between test compositions and analytes, comprising one or more test compositions, and a plurality of independent micromatrices, wherein each said micromatrix encapsulates at least one said test composition; and said micromatrices are made of a material that is permeable to an analyte.

Abstract: Aminoglycoside-polyamines are disclosed along with methods of use thereof in displacement chromatography and as DNA-binding ligands. The aminoglycoside-polyamines are derivatives of carbohydrates, such as sugars, amino sugars, deoxysugars, glycosides, nucleosides and their substituted counterparts. The subject polyamines possess a group in place of at least one hydrogen atom of at least one hydroxyl group of the carbohydrate compound. In these compounds R1 is an alkyl group or an azaalkyl group, and R2 is a primary or secondary amino group.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus of immobilizing a biocatalyst on a microfluidic biochip for conducting reactions in the presence of electroosmotic flow. The biochip includes a polymer on its microfluidic flow surfaces, wherein the polymer includes a first substituent selected from ionic groups of the same polarity or precursors thereof, a second substituent that is a hydrophobic group, and a third substituent comprising an immobilized biocatalyst- or precursor thereof. The biochip can be used to conduct multiple sequential biocatalyzed reactions in the presence of electroosmotic flow.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new process to direct the growth and direction of polymerization of microtubules using patterned centrosomes or centrosome fragments on a surface. Incorporation a flow force to direct the position and the growth of microtubules, results in a regular network of microtubules. The invention therefore provides a new route to develop both sensing and non-sensing functional microtubule-based nanodevices such as those for nanoscale separation or purification.

Abstract: A bioproduct may be selectively separated from one or more impurities by means of a displacement chromatography system that includes a solvent, a chromatographic resin and a chemically selective displacer. The method includes: dissolving the bioproduct and the one or more impurities in a solvent; loading the bioproduct and the one or more impurities, in the solvent, on a chromatographic resin; displacing the bioproduct from the chromatographic resin with chemically selective displacer; and retaining the one or more impurities on the chromatographic resin. For this method, the bioproduct and the impurities have similar binding affinity for the chromatographic resin in the absence of the displacer.

Abstract: An effective technique for the high throughput screening of displacers is described. In this technique, potential displacers are employed to displace a biomolecule (e.g., protein) adsorbed on a chromatographic resin in small-scale batch displacement experiments. The amount of protein displaced from a specific resin by a defined concentration of displacer is determined by monitoring the supermatant for the protein. By evaluating the displaced protein rather than the displacer itself, this technique enables a single detection technique (e.g., absorbance, fluorescence, etc.) to be employed for all batch displacement experiments. By monitoring the amount of protein displaced, the effacy of a large number of potential displacers can be rapidly evaluated. The entire experimental procedure can be carried out rapidly and is thus amenable to high throughput parallel screening of molecules possessing a large range of affinities and physico-chemical properties.