Fall Quarterly Update from Affinité

Q3 2021

Here is what we've been up to

Our SPR family is growing

What's new?

Another testimonial from a happy customer

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New blogs and appnotes

Our SPR family grows with qSPR^TM and KNX2^TM

Introducing qSPR^TM, the world's first cartridge-based benchtop SPR

Do you want to bring a SPR instrument inside a BSL but worry about cleaning and cross-contamination? No problem, Affinité Instruments brings you a cartridge-based benchtop qSPR^TM for quick infectious disease testing or assay development that can be placed inside a small biosafety cabinet. The sensor chip and microfluidics are integrated as a single disposable cartridge for qSPR to minimize cross-contamination and exposure to biohazardous samples. Furthermore, you can still easily move it from bench to bench, wherever you need SPR. The cartridge is designed to handle samples from simple protein solutions to complex biofluids such as serum and cell lysate.

KNX2^TM speeds up your kinetics measurement

You can now alternate easily between manual and pump injection with the new KNX2^TM dual-channel injection loop module for both your P4SPR^TM and qSPR^TM. Do your sample preparation and flushing quickly by using the manual injection port before switching to sample loop injection for characterizing biokinetics interactions. Instead of waiting for long washing steps, you now have the flexibility with KNX2^TM to switch between manual and sample loop injection at any point during a run, speeding up your experiment two samples at a time!

What's new at Affinité

Here is a list of our most recent updates:

Participation in CTA Boston - We are excited to join the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) in Boston. Access to this network is a great way to introduce SPR as biosensor to the life science community in the US.
Member of the GEDI exchange - Joining GEDI exchange allows Affinité to access the incredible and rising talent in Waterloo!
IUPAC|CCCE Conference 2021 - It was great to meet many attendees, many of whom were from Canada and US, but we also met some attendees from other countries who stayed up late just to be with us. We even had a raffle draw for those who came by to talk to us. Congratulations to our winners below:

Ashley Catigbe-Cates

Nursing student

University of Ottawa

Ifrodet Giorgees

Ph.D. Candidate

Ontario Tech University

Our co-founders, Jean-François Masson and Joelle Pelletier also jointly presented talks titled:
"Surface plasmon resonance sensors for serological assays of COVID-19 antibodies" & "Developing robust ELISA for antibody detection with SARS-CoV-2 positive patients"

Affinité has happy customers

Professor Sabine Szunerits at University of Lille in France used Affinité's portable P4SPR^TM to test surface anchored engineered antibodies on SARS-CoV-2 virus samples in her BSL3. Here is what she had to say:

"The EU funded CorDial-S proposes a novel and innovative solution to address the need of fast and sensitive sensing for the presence/absence of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva samples. It is based on the use of innovative surface receptors linked to plasmonic interfaces as well as to magnetic nanoparticles for virus pre-concentration and magnetic field enhanced SPR sensing. With the aim of performance validation in a clinical setting a highly sensitive portable SPR device was required. With P4SPR, we were able to reach this goal in a short time as the concept could be validated in BSL3 settings using cultured SARS-CoV-2 virus particles and their mutants. We are currently testing a panel of more than 200 clinical samples. Comparison with PCR is under way and will help to validate the concept."

We are now on YouTube

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