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Technology Networks spoke with Rohan Thakur, Executive Vice President of Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry at Bruker Daltonics, to discuss the company's latest analytical technologies and their capabilities.

Exciting recent developments are seeing cryo-EM compete with other structural biology techniques for resolution. We spoke to Raymond Schrijver from Thermo Fisher Scientific, about why cryo-EM is so important to drug discovery and ways in which the technique is becoming more accessible.

The Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) has launched an impressive COVID-19 diagnostic testing laboratory at UC Berkeley. Technology Networks spoke with Professor Jennifer Doudna, Executive Director at IGI and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, to learn exactly how this ambitious effort has been achieved.

In the day-to-day of research science, the acquisition of a new piece of equipment is a momentous occasion, but one that could see costs and inefficiencies spiral unless labs keep a close eye on their new kit. Asset monitoring software could lend a hand. We spoke to Agilent's Marc Boreham to find out more.

The study of proteins, lipids, metabolites and other related molecules are invaluable in early disease detection and biotherapeutic development. An innovative separation technology borne out of a US Federal Laboratory, known as structures for lossless ion manipulation, is helping scientists to achieving this.

With advances in cellular and tissue-based imaging, researchers are able to peel back the layers on new challenges and test hypotheses to solve more problems. We heard about some of the advancements being made in the field of confocal microscopy.

Microplastic ocean pollution is gradually receiving more attention but there is still so much that we don’t know. eXXpedition, a not-for-profit all-female team, are hoping to address some of these questions. We caught up with two of the expedition crew that are sailing around the world, investigating plastic pollution, gathering samples for scientific analysis and helping to educate people.

In facilitating the move to continuous processing in biotherapeutic production, bioprocessing specialists are being driven to develop innovative analytical testing methods for key measurements of output and quality, such as antibody titer.

In a study published in Cell Reports, members of the Washburn Lab described their three-pronged approach to analyzing protein complexes – affinity tag protein purification, chemical crosslinking with high-resolution mass spectrometry and computational molecular modeling with protein docking. We interviewed Washburn to find out more.

We recently spoke with experts at Bio-Rad to learn more about the reasons for, and significance of, false negative test results, and how the use of a more sensitive test could help to reduce this problem.