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How Biotinylated Molecules are Purified with Streptavidin Beads

Streptavidin is a bacterial protein that binds to the small molecule biotin with extremely high affi...

How to Solubilize Biotin for Streptavidin Elution Buffer

When using streptavidin agarose beads to purify biotinylated nucleic acids or proteins, there are a...

A Better Way to Detect the Onset of Diabetes

t is probably a safe bet that everyone reading this knows at least one person who has diabetes. Dia...

Improving Vaccine Efficacy with EDAvidin (EDA-Streptavidin)

I believe that our current quality of life has been most affected by the discovery of vaccines, even...

Prospecting for Proteins of a Parasitic Protozoan

n the comfortable culture of the U.S., which we take for granted all too often, it can be difficult...

Detecting Osteosarcoma (OSA) in dogs with Surface Protein Biotinylation

pparently, I am a dog person. It might actually be truer to say that I like all animals, but I’m su...

Improving Fluorescence Detection… with Mirrors

luorescent labeling is one of the most versatile tools that science has engineered over the last cen...

There’s Gold on those DNA Molecules!

As I continue to search for novel and interesting applications for the interaction between biotin an...

How can you label coral symbiotic protein interactions? With Biotin, of course!

Corals are fascinating and beautiful creatures. It’s also a fairly safe bet that most everyone woul...