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Discover New Tricks and Tips with Our Technical Notes
February 13, 2019 - If you're a Wyatt customer, read one of our new or updated technical notes, which provides step-by-step instructions and tips on how to get the most out of your instrumentation. View technical notes in our Support Center.
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Featured Customer: Solve Research and Consultancy
February 12, 2019 - SOLVE Research and Consultancy is a contract analytical lab, located in Lund, Sweden, dedicated to providing clients with comprehensive knowledge about their materials through multiple characterization techniques. Learn how February's Featured Customer Solve Research and Consultancy, uses Eclipse® asymmetric-flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) on a daily basis for their analytical services.
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Introducing the Wyatt Technology Store
January 16, 2019 - Wyatt is proud to introduce the Wyatt Technology Store, an online portal now available to US and Canadian customers.
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Featured Customer: Edwin Moore
January 14, 2019 - This January our featured customer, Edwin Moore, Ph.D., Visiting Scientist, Beckman Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, discusses the emerging biopharmaceuticals market.
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Explore Peer Reviews of Wyatt Products
December 10, 2018 - In order to help with due diligence in evaluating instrumentation for your lab, Wyatt Technology has partnered with science publisher SelectScience® to create a credible place for researchers using Wyatt instruments to give their unbiased comments and feedback.
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Featured Customer: Greg Wasney
December 7, 2018 - Wyatt's December featured customer, Greg Wasney, Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, discusses how he uses Wyatt instruments to characterize proteins.
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On-site Preventative Maintenance & Service
November 12, 2018 - Our comprehensive service plans are designed to provide you with hassle-free preventative maintenance and service to keep your instruments running at their best. Spend less time focused on service requests and stay more productive in the lab!
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Featured Customer: James Shih
November 2, 2018 - Our November featured customer, James Shih, Protein Chemist at Eli Lilly & Co., discusses how he uses Wyatt instrumentations to evaluate various biopharmaceutical candidates that his colleagues have developed.
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2018 Protein and Polymer Summits
October 25, 2018 - View the slides from our successful protein & biotherapeutic characterization summit hosted by the European office in Dernbach, Germany.
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Isolation and Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles
October 15, 2018 - Exosomes and related membrane vesicles carry an array of biologically functional macromolecules, including proteins, genetic material, metabolites and lipids. In this interview, Haiying Zhang, Assistant Professor of Cell and Development Biology from the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine talks about the importance of exosome characterization.
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Enhancing PLGA Characterization with Multi-Angle Light Scattering and Differential Viscometry
October 10, 2018 - The functional properties of polymers, such as poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), relevant to drug delivery and biomedical devices, are governed by the molecular properties of molar mass, composition, conformation, and branching. This article demonstrates how such polymers are fully characterized, quickly and absolutely, using gel permeation chromatography (GPC) with multi-angle light scattering (MALS) and online viscometry.
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Featured Customer: Andrew Lyon
October 3, 2018 - Wyatt's October featured customer, Andrew Lyon, Dean of the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University, shares his experience with Wyatt instrumentation over the years and his use of MALS, DLS and FFF to provide characterization for the complex hydrogel micro- and nano-particles used in his research.
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Wyatt Technology increases investment in Field Flow Fractionation Technology with the completion of its acquisition of Superon GmbH
October 3, 2018 - Wyatt Technology, the world’s leading manufacturer of instrumentation for absolute macromolecular and nanoparticle characterization, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Superon GmbH, the leading manufacturer of Field Flow Fractionation (FFF) systems.
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Discover Tricks and Tips with our Technical Notes
September 10, 2018 - Already a Wyatt customer? Our technical notes provide step-by-step instructions and tips for how to get the most out of your instrumentation. You can find technical notes on our Support Center.
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Featured Customer: Stacey Louie
September 7, 2018 - Dr. Stacey Louie, assistant professor at University of Houston, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, discusses how she uses Wyatt instruments to characterize the interactions and transformations of macromolecules and nanoparticles in complex environmental media.
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Quality standards for the life sciences: PQS
August 11, 2018 - Does your lab adhere to the Protein Quality Standard protocol of minimum essential assays and records that help ensure reproducible science?
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Featured Customer: Paul DeAngelis
August 8, 2018 - The featured customer for August is Professor Paul Deangelis. Learn how he uses Wyatt instrumentation in his glycobiology and glycobiotechnology research at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
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Wyatt Technology Europe
July 11, 2018 - The European headquarters is equipped with a state-of-the-art applications lab and highly technical staff to better serve our customers in the region. Learn how you can take advantage of the services and training programs offered by this center of excellence.
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PIPPI: developing a new toolkit for predicting protein aggregation
July 9, 2018 - Protein-excipient and protein-protein interactions are the driving forces behind stability or aggregation of protein biotherapeutics. Wyatt Technology is partnering with academic and industrial researchers in the European Union’s PIPPI consortium to develop deeper understanding and a rationalized approach to biopharmaceutical formulation.
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Featured Customer: Lynette Schroeter Tedesco
July 5, 2018 - Featured customer Lynette Schroeter-Tedesco uses Wyatt instrumentation in her research as group lead of crystalomics at Ajinomoto Althea, Inc.
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Q&A: Viscometry – what’s new?
June 14, 2018 - In this interview with AZO Network, Dr. Steven Trainoff discusses recent developments in micro-viscometry. Learn even more about this innovative technology by registering below to attend the webinar hosted by LCGC.
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Featured Customer: David Cistola
June 5, 2018 - Learn about how featured customer Prof. David P. Cistola, M.D., Ph.D., uses Wyatt instrumentation in his research at The Center of Emphasis in Diabetes & Metabolism at the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso.
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IEX and reversed-phase chromatography
May 12, 2018 - Thoroughly explored SEC-MALS, and ready to take the next steps to further enhance your biomolecular characterization capabilities? Find out if coupling MALS to other chromatographic techniques can be a good match for your needs.
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Featured Customer: Douglas Biomimetric Materials Lab
May 11, 2018 - We spoke with the Douglas Biomimetric Materials Lab at Indiana University to learn how they use Wyatt instrumentation in their research.
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Wyatt Technology names Geofrey Wyatt CEO and Clifford Wyatt President
May 1, 2018 - Wyatt Technology, the world leader in instrumentation for absolute macromolecular and nanoparticle characterization, announces a number of changes to its executive team, effective immediately. Geofrey Wyatt has been named Chief Executive Officer and Clifford Wyatt will assume the role of President. Dr. Philip Wyatt, after almost 40 years following the founding of the company, will become Chairman of the Board and take on a far more passive role.
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Copolymer Composition
April 18, 2018 - In addition to synthesis and branching, copolymerizationwhether in random arrangements or orderly blocksserves as a powerful tool for polymer scientists in creating materials with novel, useful properties. As recently described in LCGC’s The Column, three-detector SEC-MALS-dRI-UV makes it easy to co-determine absolute molar mass and relative composition for many types of copolymers.
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Customer Service and Support: Your partner in the lab.
April 11, 2018 - You just purchased your instruments from Wyatt Technology. Now what happens? A lot! Learn about the many ways our Customer Service and Support team is here to take care of you.
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Featured Customer: Carlo Zambonelli
April 10, 2018 - This month, we spoke with Dr. Carlo Zambonelli, to get to the bottom of his ongoing relationship with Wyatt Technology.
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Three Wyatt Customers Win 2018 Protein Society Awards
March 16, 2018 - Wyatt Technology congratulates its customers below on winning the 2018 Protein Society Awards. These awards “recognize excellence across the diverse disciplines that collectively advance our understanding of proteins, their structure, function, design, and application. The Awards honor researchers who have distinguished themselves with significant achievements in protein research and those who have made outstanding contributions in leadership, teaching, and service.”
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Northeast Regional Office
March 13, 2018 - The Northeast US office was established in 2003 to give Wyatt Technology a much-needed physical presence on the east coast and has since grown into an integral part of our growing business. The location offers convenient access for regional customers to receive sales and service support, demos, LSU short courses and technical applications support. The office has a fully equipped analytical lab showcasing Wyatt’s complete lineup of instruments and also includes a number of complementary third party tools.
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Are all exosomes essentially alike?
March 12, 2018 - Are all exosomes essentially alike? While proteomic, lipidomic and genomic content, as well as specific function, certainly vary with cell line and environment, common wisdom has held that the vast majority of bionanoparticles produced by cells generally have the same structure and pathway of generation. A tool for differentiating exosomes was needed in order to address this question.
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Featured Customer: Frederic Violleau
March 9, 2018 - Frederic Violleau Ph.D., Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Toulouse, discovered Wyatt instrumentation over 15 years ago, having first been introduced to the technology using a DAWN DSP. A few years later his lab completed their instrument suite by investing in an AF4 Eclipse II coupled with a DAWN MALS detector and Optilab RI detector. This investment made his lab one of the first French university laboratories equipped with Wyatt technology.
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Featured Customer: Sheena D'Arcy
February 12, 2018 - Structural biology and SEC-MALS, go together like… horses and stalls? One might be tempted to make the analogy and rather unfortunate rhyme, especially in horse country. The University of Texas, Dallas is where Prof. Sheena D’Arcy has set her stake in the ground, and SEC-MALS is as essential to her work on protein structure, dynamics and function as, well, a horse is to a cowboy.
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Featured Customer: Jason Todd
January 3, 2018 - This month, we are pleased to feature Jason Todd, a prolific user of SEC-MALS at Polymer Solutions, Inc. But rather than writing about Jason’s work and relationship with Wyatt, we think he tells it best in his own words. Be sure to read to the end and find out about Jason’s rather unusual hobby and family!
“Polymer Solutions Incorporated (PSI) is a privately-owned contract testing laboratory focused on analysis of polymers and polymer-based products, comprising three labs. The Applied Chemistry and Spectroscopy (ACS) Lab performs a lot of classical wet chemistry methods, dilute solution viscosity, FTIR, NMR, titrations, and ICP-OES.
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Thomas Fire Update
December 18, 2017 - Dear Customers:
Thank you for reaching out and keeping us in your thoughts while our region deals with the challenges associated with the Thomas Fire. While this wildfire continues to burn through portions of southern California, we thankfully report Wyatt Technology has not been adversely impacted. The air has been smoky but otherwise it’s business as usual. Unfortunately, not everyone in our region was as fortunate and so there’s a way you can help. A “Thomas Fire Fund” has been established by the United Way, American Red Cross and the California Office of Emergency Services to help those in need. Donations can be made through the United Way website at www.unitedwaythomasfirefund.org

Polymer characterization: viscosity is intrinsic
December 15, 2017 - The centrality of multi-angle light scattering to polymer characterization is widely appreciated. SEC-MALS with a DAWN® is the gold standard for determining reliable, accurate distributions of absolute molar mass and rms radius, without having to rely on column calibration, reference molecules that don’t elute like your samples, and assumptions about ideal conformation and column interactions. But once you have mastered SEC-MALS, what’s the next stage? How to obtain even deeper understanding of your macromolecules? And what are your options if SEC-MALS does not work for some of your samples?
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Featured Customer: Charles Diesendruck
December 14, 2017 - Serial customer’ is not quite as chilling a phrase as ‘serial killer’, but still it can make us a bit nervous. We know that a serial customer’s research may be so dependent on Wyatt products that they keep coming back, again and again, to fulfill their need for yet another fresh SEC-MALS stack. A career may depend on Wyatt detectors; we don’t take that responsibility lightly! Charles Diesendruck, our Featured Customer for December 2017, is one such serial customer.
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Featured Customer: Professor John Matson
November 27, 2017 - Prof. Matson’s research focuses on the synthesis of unique polymeric and supramolecular materials with applications in signaling gas delivery, tissue engineering, and sustainability. Current areas of interest include the development of materials for delivery of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a vital biological signaling gas, the synthesis of cone-shaped bottlebrush polymers, and the preparation of new polymers and polymer blends derived from renewable feedstocks.
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Developing a Library of Proteins for Drug Research
November 14, 2017 - The abundance of protein drugs on the market shows there is an increasing demand for knowledge within the formulation of biologics, as Professor Pernille Harris, Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the Protein-excipient Interactions and Protein-Protein Interactions in formulation (PIPPI) project explains
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Featured Customer: Jon Pokorski
October 13, 2017 - Nanoparticle sizing, protein buffer optimization for crystallization, biotherapeutic stability evaluation, critical aggregation or micelle concentration. These are some of the more common applications and uses of the DynaPro® Plate Reader, including the just-launched Plate Reader III. But, some of our Plate Reader customers are far more creative than the average scientist.
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DAWN Takes the Gold
October 13, 2017 - Once again our remarkable customers, along with SelectScience®, have chosen to recognize the DAWN® as an icon of instrument quality and customer delight. This month the DAWN was awarded the SelectScience Gold Seal of Quality, just the second analytical instrument in a field of thousands to receive this status.
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Wyatt Customer to Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 4, 2017 - Wyatt Technology congratulates its customer, Dr. Joachim Frank of Columbia University on sharing the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson. We are delighted to see their work developing cryo-electron microscopy recognized for its use in high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
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Featured Customer: Professor Stuart Rowan
September 19, 2017 - We are pleased to announce that Prof. Stuart Rowan is our Featured Customer for September 2017. As Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering, Dr. Rowan’s research focuses on the construction and properties of structurally-dynamic polymeric materials such as self-healing materials. He and his group study metallosupramolecular and stimuli-responsive polymers, cellulose nanocrystals in biomimetic and porous systems, and reversible covalent chemistry.
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Virtual Method Optimization and Size Analysis for FFF
September 11, 2017 - Flow-field flow fractionation (flow-FFF) offers highly versatile separations for the analysis of complex fluids, covering a size range of macromolecules and particles from 1 nm to 10,000 nm. However, flow-FFF is often perceived as a difficult technique to learn because of the multiple parameters available for adjustment.
Our new SCOUT DPS® software simulates flow-FFF from basic physical principles, enabling the virtual optimization of flow-FFF methods and opening up the power of flow-FFF separations to non-experts. SCOUT DPS also analyzes particle size distributions (hydrodynamic radius) by elution time to increase characterization capabilities. This publication in The Column explains how it works.
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Scientific Reports: µSEC-MALS™ analysis of NIST mAbs
August 31, 2017 - The µDAWN® multi-angle light scattering (MALS) detector was developed to meet the need for a low-volume, low-dispersion MALS instrument compatible with size-exclusion UHPLC (SE-UHPLC). Congratulations to Drs. Vincent Hsieh and Philip J. Wyatt on the publication of their article, “Measuring proteins with greater speed and resolution while reducing sample size” in Scientific Reports. The paper describes the analysis of NIST standard reference material SRM 8671, a monoclonal antibody developed to benchmark analytical instruments for the biopharmaceutical industry, with the µDAWN.
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Three Wyatt Generations
August 11, 2017 - 3G isn’t just a telecommunications term anymore. It’s also an abbreviation for the three generations of Wyatts working at Wyatt Technology this summer. While there have been 2G—or two generations—of Wyatts working at Wyatt Technology for more than thirty years, this summer we welcomed Spenser Wyatt, Geof’s son, to intern under Ross Bryant, Wyatt Technology’s Vice President for Sales & Marketing, doing Market Research. Besides investigating instrument population density throughout the United States, and researching new sales tools, Spenser has audited Light Scattering University and surveyed students about their experiences at LSU.
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Featured Customer: Professor Christopher Ellison
August 10, 2017 - It was our pleasure to host Prof. Christopher Ellison at the June LSU (Light Scattering University) course–held, as always, at Wyatt’s headquarters in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. As Piercy Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Ellison’s research pushes the boundaries of molecular architecture: he and his group create and investigate nanostructured polymeric systems for a wide array of advanced applications including photolithography, microelectronic device design, battery design, and general nano-scale manufacturing.
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Drug discovery: Finding, then losing, then finding again colloidal aggregates of small-molecule drugs with DLS
July 1, 2017 - Dynamic light scattering is not just for proteins and nanoparticles. In the field of small-molecule drug discovery, high-throughput DLS with the DynaPro Plate Reader II has at least one key role - preventing the accumulation of misleading hits, or false positives, that are a result of aggregated compounds. Brian Shoichet's UCSF lab has been instrumental in elucidating the mechanism of action and prevention of these promiscuous inhibitors, utilizing the DynaPro PRII for detection and formulation. Read highlights of his publications and a link to a recent online interview.

More accolades for the DAWN
June 17, 2017 - We are pleased to announce to extension of SelectScience's Seal of Quality to the DAWN, following its recognition as Reviewers' Choice Instrument of the Year for 2017. More on the inside story here.

Joining Forces for Faster Analyses
May 31, 2017 - When two technology leaders team up to advance the state of the art in polymer and biopharmaceutical characterization, customers can expect to see some real benefits coming down the pipeline. Wyatt and Waters have been collaborating for some time on joint educational efforts around UPLC®, APC and the μDAWN®, but now it is official. In the words of Cliff Wyatt, Executive Vice President of Wyatt Technology, “We’re delighted to be partnering these ‘best in class’ products to improve the accuracy and throughput of our mutual customers.” Click here to read the press release on our co-marketing agreement with Waters.

The Next Generation Compact MALS Detector
May 19, 2017 - Introducing the next generation miniDAWN: the miniDAWN^® TREOS^® II. In designing the TREOS II, your productivity was our guiding light. The TREOS II is modular and field-serviceable, adds ease-of-use features to make SEC-MALS even easier, and is upgradeable to a μDAWN. This new instrument is also more sensitive than the previous TREOS and has a larger range of size (hydrodynamic radius) measurement. To download a white paper describing the many improvements introduced in the TREOS II, click here.

Protein Quality Control in SPR and BLI High-Throughput Screening Studies
May 9, 2017 - Protein-protein binding studies are only as good as the quality of the reagents used in the experiments. Great resources in terms of instrumentation, sample production and scientist time are typically invested in high-throughput screening of antibodies or fragments to obtain optimal therapeutic candidates, perform epitope binning and rank candidates by affinity and kinetics. However, often little attention is paid to verifying protein solution quality—which can lead researchers down the proverbial rabbit hole, chasing after ephemeral or anomalous results that are caused by degraded proteins. To download a white paper describing a fast, easy and non-perturbing pre-screening method using the DynaPro Plate Reader II, click here.

Wyatt presents Polymer Characterization seminar hosted by the University of Minnesota
April 13, 2017 – Wyatt Technology, in partnership with the University of Minnesota, presented a polymer characterization seminar in the Twin Cities to over fifty scientists and engineers.  Dr. Jeff Ahlgren was the keynote speaker and discussed ways in which size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) or gel permeation chromatography (GPC) coupled with multi-angle light scattering (MALS), refractive index (RI) and differential viscometry can be a powerful technique in determining important polymer characteristics such as: absolute molar mass, size, branching and conformation. Many of our long time and loyal customers attended and got a chance to hear about the latest developments at Wyatt Technology including the new, benchmark-setting ViscoStar III. Read more...

Wyatt staff gathers for ribbon-cutting ceremony at new facility
April 4, 2017 - Most of the boxes have been unpacked. Furniture that didn’t survive the move has been recycled. New logos have been stenciled on the glass. Our company sign has been hoisted into place on the building’s façade. Read more...

Reviewer's Choice Awarded for DAWN
March 14, 2017 - At the recent Pittsburgh Conference (PittCon) held in Chicago, IL March 6-9, 2017, Wyatt Technology was pleasantly surprised to learn that we had won a Scientist’s Choice Award® from SelectScience. The active roster of 300,000+ SelectScience customers were invited to participate in the process by nominating, voting and reviewing companies of their choosing. Read more...

DynaPro High-Throughput Dynamic Light Scattering Now Available with 21CFR11 Compliance
March 3, 2017 - We are pleased to announce the release of 21CFR(11)-compliant software for the groundbreaking DynaPro® Plate Reader II. The DynaPro PRII is widely used in the biopharmaceutical industry to characterize aggregation as well as thermal, conformational and colloidal stability of biotherapeutics. With the release of the 21CFR11-compliant Security Pack (SP) in DYNAMICS, labs operating under GLP or GMP regulatory requirements may now take advantage of the DynaPro PRII’s automation to measure dozens, hundreds or even thousands of samples per day. DYNAMICS SP also supports the DynaPro NanoStar cuvette-based DLS detector and the Möbius zeta potential/DLS detector.

New Application Note: Assessing Ligand-Binding Assay Reagent Proteins by SEC-MALS
March 3, 2017 - Ligand Binding Assays (LBAs) used for large molecule drug development often utilize proteins conjugated to various tags. To ensure that these conjugated protein reagents perform consistently over time and provide high quality data, each lot of conjugated material should be characterized functionally and biophysically. This application note, contributed by Justin Low et al. at Genentech, discusses the advantages of SEC-MALS for this application and the impact of aggregated reagents on assays used to detect anti-drug antibodies. Download here.

Webcast: High Throughput Tools for Optimizing Drug Nanosuspensions
February 2, 2017 - Listen to this on-demand webcast to learn how Dr. Dennis Leung of Merck & Co. (currently at Genentech) has implemented high-throughput process development tools for drug nanosuspensions, utilizing high-throughput dynamic light scattering for rapid analytical feedback. View the webcast

Featured article: Algorithm-driven high-throughput screening of colloidal nanoparticles under simulated physiological and therapeutic conditions
February 14, 2017 - Testing the stability of nanoparticles for drug delivery, phototherapy and diagnostics under physiological conditions is a critical phase of development. Bhirde et al. of the FDA and NIH have demonstrated the use of the DynaPro DLS Plate Reader for assessing the stability of model colloidal systems and their interaction with serum albumin, fully automated over many samples conditions and an extended time period. Read more...

Webcast: The Molecular Tool-kit of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses
February 2, 2017 - The ability of viruses to maximize functionality from a limited genome, and to evolve their functionalities in real time offers us fundamental insights into the capabilities and plasticity of proteins in general. In this on-demand webcast, Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire of the Scripps Research Institute explores the versatile structural biology of viral proteins and how light scattering played a key role in her discoveries. View the webcast.

Screening Developability and Pre-Formulation of Biotherapeutics with High-Throughput Dynamic Light Scattering (HT–DLS)
February 2, 2017 - Learn how high-throughput dynamic light scattering meets the challenges of aggregation and stability studies in early developability and pre-formulation studies of biotherapeutics. Newly released white paper. Download here.

ViscoStar III - Innovations in Online Viscometry for GPC

January 21, 2017 - The ViscoStar III comprises breakthrough technology for online viscometry, enhancing sensitivity and resolution while improving ease-of-use and nearly eliminating sensitivity to pressure fluctuations from the HPLC pump or other sources. This white paper describes the innovations and the end benefits to users. Download here.

We’re moving! Just not very far...
January 9, 2017 - Yes, it’s true. Wyatt Technology is moving its premises in January 2017. For those of you who have known—and loved—our location at 6300 Hollister Avenue, do not fret. We are moving about 100 meters away to 6330 Hollister Avenue. Read more...

Wishing you the best of Holidays
December 22, 2016 - On behalf of our entire company, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a wonderful holiday season. The end of the year is, in its own way, a commencement of the New Year, and our company has enjoyed 34 years of prosperity thanks to your business. Read more...

Commercializing multi-angle light scattering instruments - an interview with Philip Wyatt

November 11, 2016 - The fascinating story behind the origins of MALS instrumentation that revolutionized absolute molar mass and size analysis of proteins, polymers and nanoparticles. Read more...

Sigma Xi inducts 12 Wyatt Technology scientists
October 26, 2016 - Sigma Xi Inducts 12 Wyatt Technology Scientists October 26, 2016-Wyatt Technology proudly announces that eleven of its scientists have been inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Sigma Xi is the world’s largest, multidisciplinary honor society for scientists and engineers. Read more...

Cutting edge women use cutting edge instruments
October 18, 2016 - If you were watching the Today Show on Monday, October 17, 2016 you would have seen at least one segment not related to politics. In fact, “Cutting Edge Women”, is a regular part of the Today Show. As you might guess, it’s about influential women and this episode featured Anne Wojcicki, the founder and CEO of 23andMe, a genetic testing company in the Bay Area of California. 23andMe is also of greater interest to Wyatt Technology because Anne Wojciki’s company is a customer of our technology. Read more...

Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
October 5, 2016 - Wyatt Technology congratulates its customer, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University on sharing the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today with Bernard L. Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage. They have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added. We are delighted to see their work on nano-motors recognized as the building blocks for future molecular machines. Some of Professor Stoddart’s publications using our DAWN instruments may be found in our Bibliography. Read more...

Highlights: Light scattering reveals novel applications of DNA
March 29, 2016 - Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is an amazingly versatile molecule thanks to its unique structure and stability. Encoding and passing on to subsequent generations all inheritable genetic information, the DNA molecule plays a well-known, pivotal role in the biological world. However, DNA has also been the subject of cutting-edge research in fields outside the usual scope of genetics and biology, from nanotechnology and nanoelectronics to drug delivery and even optogenetics, taking advantage of its highly customizable properties. Light scattering, of course, plays an important part in many of these studies. Read more...

The myriad applications of quantitative light scattering in the biological and biopharmaceutical sciences
March 28, 2016 - Actually too numerous to cover in a single publication, but Allen Minton of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics in NIH’s National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has done a spectacular job of critically addressing quite a few. His review article, “Recent applications of light scattering measurement in the biological and biopharmaceutical sciences,” appears in Analytical Biochemistry 501 (2016) pp. 4-22. Read more...

Retooling protein characterization
February 15, 2016 - Dr. Lisa Heiden of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News states if the Biotherapeutics Workshop is to progress beyond Rough-Hewn Products, it will need a range of finely calibrated analytical Platforms. DLS (dynamic light scattering) assesses size distribution, and MALS (multiangle light scattering) measures molar mass. Both are utilized throughout drug discovery, beginning with quality assessments of proteins to identify the best candidate molecules. Read more...

ZoBio optimizes solution behavior of proteins
February 10, 2016 - ZoBio Staff In many projects, the largest hurdle to be overcome is preparation of a protein that is well-behaved for biophysical and structural biological studies. Often even after achieving high level expression of a soluble, functional variant of the target, it may aggregate under the high concentrations required for many experimental techniques, particularly NMR and X-ray crystallography. Read more...

Wyatt’s International Light Scattering Colloquium focuses on the nano world
January 27, 2016 - Dr. Robert L. Stevenson presents highlights from the 24th ILSC in American Laboratory. Featured talks include those by Erica Ollmann Saphire of Scripps Research Institute, Frank von der Kammer of the University of Vienna, Joseph Arndt of biogen, David Cistola of University of North Texas Health Science Center and Joseph Glajch of Momenta Pharmeceuticals. Read more...

Light scattering in the nano world
January 20, 2016 - Methods for the analysis of nanoparticles have been available since the 1980s and light scattering offers one of the most versatile sets of characterization tools. The three most common variations of analytical light scattering includes: multi-angle, dynamic and electrophoretic (MALS, DLS and ELS, respectively). The light scattering toolbox comprising MALS, DLS and ELS is an essential kit for scientists and engineers working in nanoparticle characterization. Read more...

Protein formulation consortium
December 16, 2015 - Scientists in the fields of structural biology, biophysics, protein formulation and stability have formed a consortium, Protein-excipient Interactions and Protein-Protein Interactions in Formulation (PIPPI). PIPPI’s goals are a mechanistic understanding of protein stability, as well as training a new generation of innovative and entrepreneurial early-stage researchers who will develop methodologies and tools to guide the formulation of robust biologics. Three-year scholarships are available for 15 Ph.D. students. Read more...

Recent publications in the field of natural polymers
December 15, 2015 - Natural polymers and their derivatives feature in a host of cutting-edge applied research projects, including biofuels, environmentally friendly structural materials, nanopharmaceuticals and food science. Light scattering is, of course, a primary means for characterizing natural polymers in terms of molar mass, size, and conformation. Here we present some highlights of recent publications utilizing MALS to study polymerization, structure and degradation of natural polymers, and even the contribution of these materials to the texture and consistency of one of our favorite mobile phases: beer. Read more...

The chromatography detector you shouldn't miss
Nov. 20, 2015 - The question of 'Which chromatography detector should I buy' was addressed in a recent LinkedIn post, which gave a great overview of the various detectors available for many types of chromatography, but only briefly alluded to the most important detector type for anyone running size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) or gel-permeation chromatography (GPC): multi-angle light scattering (MALS). Read more...

Wyatt Technology’s growth continues…
Nov. 18, 2015 - Wyatt Technology Europe GmbH, Wyatt Technology's subsidiary office in Dernbach, Germany, has expanded its headquarters. The grand opening ceremony of the new European center of operations was held in conjunction with the European Users' Meeting, September 29th through October 2nd, 2015. Read more...

ILSC 2015: Scattered Light
November 15, 2015 - Wyatt Technology hosted the 24th International Light Scattering Colloquium bringing together dozens of scientists to discuss the use of light scattering in diverse applications from polymer science and nanoparticles to viruses and therapeutic proteins. Read more...