Over the last year I’ve been having an absolute blast developing reagents and hardware for the synthetic biology space. I am proud to announce the launch our company store / blog at cell-free.com. Our primary focus is on advancing the field of cell-free protein synthesis through higher quality, more accessible reagents coupled with hardware that helps you get the most value out of your cell-free and molecular biology experiments.
Why are we so excited about cell-free protein synthesis? Gone are the days of rabbit retic lysate or wheat germ extract, with yields of 20 ug/mL or less. Modern E.coli lysate based systems are capable of producing more than 1.5 mg/mL of protein! Drop your template DNA into the reaction, mix a few reagents and collect your protein in 4-16 hours. When compared to the cost of reagents and labor to produce a similar amount of protein in E. coli, cell-free protein synthesis has the potential to replace small scale cell-based protein synthesis in many labs.
Along the road to launch we have developed tools that we will be sharing as open-source projects on our blog. One that I’m particularly excited about is our in-house bag bioreactor which helps us test feeding strategies for our cells before scaling up! I’ll be sure to let everyone know as soon as it’s up. Thank you for all the continued support everyone.
Great… good luck!