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Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.
Patent issued for assisted protein purification
June 22nd, 2005
Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc., (CIPH) announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Ciphergen U.S. patent 6,881,586, directed to methods of rapidly purifying proteins. The methods involve using ProteinChip chromatographic arrays integrated with SELDI [surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization]-TOF-MS detection to rapidly identify "on-chip" conditions for purifying a protein for applications including protein identification. "Protein purification is a major bottleneck today in protein identification," said William E. Rich, president and CEO of Ciphergen. "Our biomarker discovery center scientists as well as leading...
Source: Physician Law Weekly (2005-06-22)
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