Research & Development

Magnets to Control Prosthetic Limbs

For people with amputation who have prosthetic limbs, one of the greatest challenges is controlling the prosthesis so that it moves the same way a natural limb would. Most prosthetic limbs are controlled using electromyography, a way of recording electrical activity from the muscles, but this approach provides only limited control of the prosthesis. […]

News

Bangs Labs Develops New Magnetic Microparticles for Life Science Separations

Bangs Laboratories has launched Streptavidin Magnefy superparamagnetic microspheres, adding a new product line to its portfolio of magnetic particles for life science separations. The new beads bring another option for immobilizing biotinylated antibodies or other proteins, capturing biotinylated PCR products or binding […]

Blogs

Catching the Tail on mRNA Key to Magnetic Particle Separation for Battling Covid-19

By Lluis M. Martínez, SEPMAG Chief Scientific Officer
The “central dogma” states that DNA gets transcribed into mRNA which is then translated into a protein. The term mRNA stands for messenger ribonucleic acid as it is the messenger between the directions of DNA and the creation of proteins by the ribosome. Researchers and industry laboratories extract mRNA from cells to study processes occurring in the cell. […]