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To: nigel bates who wrote (131)	3/20/2006 3:18:19 PM
From: dr.praveen	Respond to of 253

Thanks Nigel for bringing it up. I will look into it. Also another one I recently came across is Lumera. Regards...Praveen Johnny on the spot: 10,000-spot protein array biochips might soon be a reality 2006-03-06 by Jeffrey Bouley BOTHELL, Wash.—The dream of a “whole-proteome” biochip is getting closer now that nanotechnology company Lumera Corp. has partnered with Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Harvard Institute of Proteomics, a division of HMS. Under the terms of the January agreement, Lumera and HMS will develop a next-generation biochip that combines Lumera's NanoCapture technology with HMS's nucleic acid programmable protein arrays (NAPPA) methodology. The organizations believe that they can thereby create a 10,000-spot very high density protein array. Such a feat would, of course, be a boon for drug discovery and life science research in terms of significantly increasing the speed of work. Using current research methods and materials, array densities of up to about 800 spots are the upper limit. Also, the new biochip is expected to increase the sensitivity and throughput of the NAPPA technology by increasing the number of features on the array without sacrificing the amount of protein produced per feature. This would sidestep typical costs and technical difficulties involved in printing protein arrays one protein at a time. “The 10,000-spot biochip is a very important step towards our ultimate goal of producing a whole-proteome biochip,” says Joshua LaBaer, director of the Harvard Institute of Proteomics. “As we increase spot density, we are able to gather more data about proteins from a single experiment.” Financial terms were not disclosed, but HMS and Lumera have reported that they will share rights to jointly developed intellectual property. The collaboration is set to last one year and has been a work in progress since mid-2005. “We have been working with Harvard since May of 2005,” notes Dr. Helene Jaillet, director of investor relations for Lumera. “They are a world-class opinion leader in terms of proteins, and when you are involved with a disruptive and emerging field like proteomics, you want to be involved with an organization of that caliber. We're happy we were finally able to get a collaboration deal put to bed. The scientists were getting along great; we just had to let the lawyers get done dotting their I's and crossing their T's.” “Professor LaBaer's work on protein arrays at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics has been substantial and we believe is revolutionizing proteomics,” says Tom Mino, CEO of Lumera. “They have shown the NAPPA platform as an extremely useful tool for biomarker discovery in cancer and diabetes, as well as for cutting-edge homeland bio-defense applications.” See: tinyurl.com