Depending on your antibody and your assay, you have a number of ways to couple your protein or antibody to the surface of your magnetic beads. Once again, forethought is important in choosing which bead surface to use. Plain surfaces, modified surfaces or pre-activated surfaces in streptavidin beads are examples of these possible choices.
Lluis M. Martínez, SEPMAG Chief Scientific Officer
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When you have systems that have large standard open magnets that can generate stray fields, such as a non-homogeneous magnetic separation rack, the devices can be very dangerous. The magnetic fields generated all around the device and are known to have caused laboratory accidents in the past. Scaling up a process means that the stray fields will increase quickly with the size of the device.
When determining which magnetic microsphere to use for your CLIA, it is important to take into consideration a variety of different variables. Magnetic streptavidin beads are a well-known example of these magnetic microspheres, but there are many alternatives we must take into account.
Working with a magnetic separation rack, at small volumes it is easy to create and use a quadripol electromagnet to generate high forces during biomagnetic separation processes, even to the point of making the process very close to homogeneous. The main advantage to using electromagnets for this type of process is the ability to easily modify the current passing through the magnetic coils, thus modifying the value of the magnetic field and force during the setup of your process.
In Chemiluminescent immunoassays, antibodies are bound to the used magnetic beads (such as streptavidin beads) in order to detect a certain analyte. However, there are different types of antibodies that behave in different ways and recognize a variety of epitopes.
On 10, 11 and 12 of October, the Japanese Association of Clinical Laboratory Systems will hold its EXPO2013 at the Pacifico Yokohama Convention Center.
When companies desire to increase the volume and scale up their production using a non-homogeneous magnetic separation rack, they use higher magnetic forces in order to separate the biomagnetic beads. As a result, the forces experienced by the beads nearest the magnet are extremely high. In addition, the time of separation also needs to be increased substantially when the volume is increased in order to collect an acceptable percentage of beads in a non-homogeneous system.
When developing and using a CLIA, it is important to follow eight basic steps in order to ensure that your assay will be the most efficient and accurate that it can be. Whether we are using magnetic streptavidin beads or another type of beads, these are the steps we must follow.
During non-homogeneous separation in a magnetic separation rack, in order to generate a magnetic force, you need to use magnet arrangements to create a variation in the magnetic field. In this situation, the magnetic force will always vary with distance from the magnets.
