Leo Graves
Conference in Vienna for the Society for Invertebrate Pathology
OET has exciting news! This summer we will be visiting the 2024 International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control...
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EXPERTS IN BACULOVIRUS PROTEIN EXPRESSION
BAC TO THE FUTURE
ybajaj12
Mar 281 min read
⚠️ Network Outage Planned - April 2nd ⚠️
Please be advised that we will be experiencing a network shutdown on Tuesday, April 2nd that may temporarily impact our ability to...
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Leo Graves
Dec 20, 20231 min read
OET has a new phone number
OET have unfortunately had to change their phone number so the existing number no longer works. However, we now have a new number for you...
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Leo Graves
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Scientific Technician Job Oppertunity
OET seeks to recruit an experienced technician to join us at the Bioinnovation Hub, Gipsy Lane, Headington. This will be a key role in...
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ybajaj12
Nov 23, 20232 min read
OET and Oxford Brookes University Collaborate in Pan-European Project 'NanoZoo' to Develop Vaccines
Novel vaccine platforms are urgently needed to produce efficacious, safe, low cost, and rapidly adaptable (‘plug-and-play’) vaccines to...
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ybajaj12
Nov 21, 20232 min read
OET Receives £1.4M UK Contract to Develop Vaccine for Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus
CCHFv vaccine - transition from preclinical to clinical studies Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever virus (CCHFv) is endemic in >30...
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ybajaj12
Nov 14, 20232 min read
Choosing the right baculovirus gene promoter for recombinant protein production
The polyhedrin gene promoter is the general work horse used for protein expression in the baculovirus system. It is active in the very...
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Leo Graves
Nov 9, 20231 min read
Christmas Shipping at OET
Please note, the last date for shipping of the orders will be Monday 18th December 2023 UK, across the world (except USA). For USA, last...
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yelluk
Dec 18, 20193 min read
The Cells at Christmas Conundrum
As the holiday season creeps painfully slowly towards us it’s not only the lab staff who need a little TLC over the festive break. Cell...
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yelluk
Nov 5, 20192 min read
Introduction to the Baculovirus Expression System
Baculoviruses are in many respects an odd choice for use as an expression system to make recombinant proteins. In their natural...
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yelluk
Oct 24, 20193 min read
Insect Cell Culture Media
Following on from our last blog we briefly describe insect cell culture media. It used to be that all animal cell cultures depended on...
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yelluk
Oct 16, 20193 min read
Culturing Insect Cells
On a scale of complexity/difficulty, culturing insect cells falls somewhere between yeast and mammalian systems. They can be grown in...
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yelluk
Oct 9, 20193 min read
Selecting a Protein Expression System
A major decision facing anyone starting a new project requiring any quantity of recombinant protein is selecting a protein expression...
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yelluk
Jun 11, 20192 min read
Baculovirus P10 Structures and Role in Insect Cells
A blog on baculovirus P10 structures and the role in insect cells might appear a slightly odd topic for a blog from a company based on...
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yelluk
Jun 6, 20192 min read
New pOET9 Vectors!
This month we’re celebrating the release of our newest product to come out of the OET labs – pOET9 transfer vectors. With the application...
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yelluk
Feb 12, 20191 min read
Plaque-Assay Schematic
We’ve said it enough times; the plaque-assay is the ‘gold standard’ for determining virus infectivity. But this doesn’t make the...
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yelluk
Dec 18, 20183 min read
How to Grow Cells over the Holiday Period
We want to talk about how to grow cells over the holiday period spanning Christmas and New Year. (OK, so we have covered this before but...
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yelluk
Nov 26, 20183 min read
Growing Mammalian Cells Successfully
While OET Ltd has built its reputation on baculovirus-insect cell expression systems, we also undertake work that requires growing...
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yelluk
Nov 13, 20183 min read
Growing insect cells successfully – Part II
In our previous blog we talked about the early stages of growing insect cells when you might just have revived a frozen stock and set up...
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yelluk
Oct 12, 20183 min read
Growing Insect Cells Successfully
With Autumn, or Fall as some of you may call it, upon us everyone seems to back in action in the lab again and hopefully growing insect...
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