Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc., a 100 per cent subsidiary of Bio-Rad Laboratories USA, has recently launched its new life science product Profinia protein purification system in the Indian market. It is an automated low-pressure liquid chromatography system designed to enable scientists to perform unattended affinity purification and desalting of recombinant tagged proteins. The company expects huge market for its new system.

"We have recently launched Profinia system in the Indian market and we are also planning to launch another two to three new products in the Indian market. We have targeted Profinia system basically for the entire chromatography market. We have already started talks with many companies and labs about technology, which are involved into histidine tagged protein. The Profinia system does not require special chromatography training or expertise. It is automated affinity purification and desalting methods would be completed in as little as 30 minutes," a senior official from the company told Pharmabiz.

The system stands between manual kits for purification and sophisticated instrumentation-based methods of separations, represents an automated and efficient purification solution for scientists.

The Profinia's large touch screen easily guides the user through method selection and sample loading. Purified protein is automatically collected into a single tube, and protein yield and concentration is calculated and displayed on the screen at the end of the run. The system can also be used with optional Profinia software, which displays purification data in real time and allows for publication-quality report generation. Data records of the method and purification results are available in real time when the Profinia software is connected, or data can be exported upon run completion.

The system uses pre-programmed methods for Imac (native and denaturing), GST, and desalting applications, optimised with pre-packaged purification kits, buffers, reagents, and accessories to provide dependable purifications. The quality of results obtained, such as purity and yield are equivalent to gravity flow columns or single column low-pressure chromatography systems.