ScreenTape “dramatically improves productivity” (UCL)

Edinburgh — Lab901 today announced that it has shipped its first ScreenTape® P200 systems for automated protein analysis. GSK (Stevenage, UK) will use the ScreenTape system in its core Monoclonal Antibody production facility for antibody production QC and at-line monitoring of antibody expression. UCL Cancer Institute (London, UK) is using ScreenTape in its pre-GMP therapeutic protein production pathway for expression and purification monitoring of recombinant antibody and fusion protein molecules.

Generating results in only 1 minute per sample, the P200 protein system extends the use of Lab901’s existing bench-top TapeStation® instrument which has already made a global impact in the DNA market for PCR diagnostics. “The protein ScreenTape system dramatically improves productivity, allowing us to complete our protein production and purification workflows much faster than with traditional SDS-PAGE methods”, commented Dr. Geoff Boxer from UCL. “We are also evaluating the platform for non-isotopic drug distribution studies” he added.

The ScreenTape automated SDS-PAGE platform comprises the TapeStation instrument and the new ScreenTape P200 consumable. Protein ScreenTape complements Lab901’s ScreenTape consumables for multiplex PCR and RNA QC analysis, which also run on the company’s TapeStation instrument.

About Lab901

Lab901, based in Edinburgh, UK, is a leading laboratory automation company. The new ScreenTape P200 variant allows scientists expressing and purifying recombinant proteins and Monoclonal antibodies (MAb’s) to carry out SDS-PAGE and analysis in a fraction of the time needed for traditional gel-based or chip-based methods. Lab901 has been selling its D800 and DS12 DNA ScreenTape products into the PCR diagnostics market for the past 18 months and has now shipped over 70 systems globally. ScreenTape is manufactured at Lab901’s production facility in Loanhead, Edinburgh.

About the ScreenTape® System:

The ScreenTape system is the first fully automated, walk-away solution for gel electrophoresis. Customers simply load their samples and the ScreenTape consumable into the compact TapeStation instrument and, within 1 minute per sample, fully analysed results for protein, RNA and DNA samples are displayed.