Bioactivities and Molecular Biology

We can assist you in developing products for markets related to human or animal health and well-being:

• Assessing the potential of marine biodiversity through the discovery and characterization of new active ingredients.
• In vitro evaluation of the potential of natural extracts as modulators of inflammation, tissue repair, prebiotics and disinfectants in various animal (human, mouse, pig) and microbial (pathogenic or probiotic) cell models.
• Physicochemical characterization using a variety of biochemical and analytical chemistry techniques.
• Bioassay-guided fractionation when refining active ingredients is relevant.

We can support R&D projects involving genomics and transcriptomics analytical approaches through:

• Genetic identification of species using DNA barcoding
• Next generation sequencing (whole genome)
• Gene expression analysis by quantitative PCR

In support of these activities, our team has the expertise needed to implement various other molecular biology techniques.

• Cell banks.
• Integrated tool for various cell cultures.
• Integrated tool for laboratory-scale development of various biomass extraction methods.
• Cell fractionation (centrifugation, filtration, frontal and tangential ultrafiltration).
• Analytical tools for cell biology and biochemistry, including medium-throughput transcriptomics and proteomics (Bio-Plex and Biorad systems).
• Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy.
• Fluorimetry (Tecan multimode reader).
• FPLC liquid chromatography (Äkta avant 25).