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Aptamer Chemistry Series IV: Fluorescence and Aptamers
Skoll is the name of the wolf, Who follows the shining priest, Into the desolate forest, And the other is Hati, Hróðvitnir’s son, Who chases the bright bride of the sky Snorri Sturluson’s Grímnismál I chose Norse mythology as a description of the cause of solar… Read More »Aptamer Chemistry Series IV: Fluorescence and Aptamers
Aptamer Chemistry Series III
Don Quixote spent four days coming up with a name for his horse, Rocinante, as the name had to befit a horse of such a great knight. The name Rocinante represents clever word play in Spanish, as “ante” means before, and “rocin” means a nag… Read More »Aptamer Chemistry Series III
Aptamer Chemistry Series II : The Adapter
At NeoVentures we are global leaders in the development and application of chemistries that enable aptamer performance in diagnostic devices. Usually I start my blogs with a cultural analogy, sorry to disappoint with the adapter image this time. The reason for the analogy is to… Read More »Aptamer Chemistry Series II : The Adapter
Aptamer Chemistry : The Philosopher’s Stone
Bernard Trevisan ,an unfortunately fictional character, is attributed with spending his life in the scientific pursuit of the Philospher’s Stone, a substance that could transform a base metal into gold. Although Bernard was not ultimately successful, he represents all of those alchemists who built the… Read More »Aptamer Chemistry : The Philosopher’s Stone
Modified Nucleotides: Follow the Vaccines
Robert Frost’s poem, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, … I took the one less traveled by,. And that has made all the difference …” may be useful advice for life, but not when preparing a path for new products that will be subject to regulatory approval. Developing new… Read More »Modified Nucleotides: Follow the Vaccines
FRELEX III: Aptamarkers
“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.” ― Jorge Luis Borges, quote from The Library of Babel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel) A library of aptamers is like a library of books. They both contain strings of information… Read More »FRELEX III: Aptamarkers
FRELEX : Enabling diagnosis of complexes.
Think about listening to great jazz, late at night in a quiet club. The saxophone riffs off a melody laid down by the trumpet and vice-versa back and forth. The complexity of the interacting sounds takes us away from the expected melody in eddies drifting… Read More »FRELEX : Enabling diagnosis of complexes.
FRELEX: “The concept”
In the M.C. Escher painting, “Reptiles” it is clear how much more information is present in the three-dimensional representation of the lizards versus their two-dimensional counterparts. The three-dimensional lizards are alive, they are bending over and interacting with surfaces. I will argue that the situation… Read More »FRELEX: “The concept”
Signal versus Noise IV: Binding affinity
When we look at the night’s sky and see the moon, we could describe their relationship as a fixed binding event. In fact, this is a dynamic system where the earth, the moon and the sun play a role. The same as the earth and… Read More »Signal versus Noise IV: Binding affinity
