Today, Pressure BioSciences Incorporated, in conjunction with researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, unveiled a novel approach for the simultaneous extraction, isolation, and fractionation of nucleic acid (DNA and RNA), proteins, and lipids from animal and plant samples routinely used in laboratory research. Pressure BioSciences has already been marketing their PCT Sample Preparation System, which answers many of the sample preparation problems that researchers encounter, and offers unique advantages to customers looking to extract DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecules from a wide variety of biological samples.
The newly unveiled method is based on a combination of the Company’s patented pressure cycling technology (PCT), single-use processing containers (PULSE Tubes), and proprietary PCT- enhanced reagents. Details of exactly how the new technique works and the methodology used to create it will be given in Bethesda, Maryland at the US HUPO (Human Proteomic Organization) 4th Annual Conference on March 16-19. Dr. Alexander Lazarev (PBIO) and Dr. Alexander Ivanov (HSPH) will be conducting these presentations and will also explain practical applications for this breakthrough technique.
Dr. Lazarev, who is the Vice President of R&D for PBIO, said, “The ProteoSolve-LRS(lipid-rich samples) kit PBI recently released offers researchers a number of advantages over available methods in extracting proteins in lipid-rich samples (used in the study of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, for example). The new ProteoSolve-SB (“systems biology”) kit enhances the LRS kit further, as it offers researchers the ability to simultaneously extract DNA, RNA, and lipids together with proteins from the same initial sample. We believe that this method offers a significant advantage over other extraction methods in use today, and opens up an entirely new market for our PCT products.”
Dr. Ivanov from the Harvard School of Public Health added, “This is a unique method that can concurrently extract, isolate, and fractionate four major classes of bio-molecules (DNA, RNA, proteins, and lipids) from various cells and tissues. The approach is rapid, reproducible, safe, and provides efficient and high quality bio-molecule recovery. This technique offers the potential to enhance studies in systems biology currently being conducted in a number of laboratories working in many important areas of human, animal, plant, and microbial research.”
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