Affinité Blogs

Apr 22 min read

Easy SPR experiment set-up: the Affinité sensor difference

One common SPR optical set-up widely used by most commercial SPR instruments involves a prism coupler. This component couples light to a...

Dec 20, 20216 min read

Using Portable SPR to Speed Up Your Lateral Flow Assay Development

Conventional SPR has many advantages over ELISA when it comes to speeding up lateral flow assay development. Please read for more details.

Dec 18, 20216 min read

Conventional SPR: Still the Best Choice for my Biosensing Needs

This blog highlights the key advantages of conventional SPR and outlines performance issues that are associated with localized SPR (LSPR).

Nov 4, 20215 min read

Surface Plasmon Resonance for Protein-Protein Interactions

A general blog about SPR for protein-protein interactions and its advantages.

Sep 7, 20213 min read

6 Advantages of Surface Plasmon Resonance Technology

What are the top advantages of using surface plasmon resonance? SPR is compared to other techniques such as ELISA and MST.

Jul 30, 20216 min read

SPR to Examine Cross-Reactivity of Antibodies with Native and Variant SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins

Read about how Affinité's P4SPR™ advances COVID-19 research in terms of cross-reactivity of antibodies against spike protein variants.

May 4, 20214 min read

Portable SPR for On-Site Testing of Environmental Contaminants

Summary of a paper that used the P4SPR™ to detect RDX in groundwater in the field during winter and summer seasons.

Mar 15, 20215 min read

The Ability of SPR Compared to BLI to Detect Prostate-Specific Antigen in Human Serum

This blog summarizes a study that used 3D polyelectrolyte to detect PSA in clinical samples on Affinité's P4SPR™ platform instead of BLI.

Nov 13, 20205 min read

Advantages of SPR over ELISA

Comparison of SPR and ELISA. Key features of SPR are highlighted as well as being able to detect low-affinity interactions.

Nov 5, 20204 min read

Manual Injection vs Pump-Assisted SPR Experiment

A brief description of manual injection vs pump modes in surface plasmon resonance experiments. Factors to consider are also listed.

Sep 29, 20203 min read

Rapid Quality Control of Antibodies Using P4SPR™

Here is a quick SPR experiment that can be done to check the quality of the same type of antibodies from different sources.

Sep 16, 20203 min read

The Advantages of a Portable SPR Instrument

This blog lists the advantages of a portable SPR instrument vs a large SPR system. It highlights the key features of Affinité's P4SPR™.