While OET Ltd has built its reputation on baculovirus-insect cell expression systems, we also undertake work that requires growing...

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...

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...

A frequent customer query concerns baculovirus transfer vector plasmid compatibility with either flashBACTM or other systems for making...

While OET is currently unable to offer GMP manufacture of recombinant proteins or viruses, we can offer a premium service for pre-GMP...

OET scientists, Dr Mine Aksular and Dr Leo Graves, recently travelled to Mexico City to spend six days visiting the Centre for Molecular...

Oxford, UK – 4th May 2018 Oxford Expression Technologies Ltd (OET) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a £2M contract...

Every so often we are asked if storing insect cells at -80°C is a viable option if you haven’t got access to liquid nitrogen cryogenic...

An important factor in baculovirus expression is assessing when to passage Sf9 cells, which are commonly used to make recombinant viruses...

The transition to suspension Sf9 cells from monolayer cultures is not difficult but does depend on harvesting the attached cells at the...

The process of reviving cells from liquid nitrogen, or indeed from transport on dry ice, can be a little difficult on occasion.  Two...

November marks the welcome of OET’s newest product – the pOET8 baculovirus transfer vectors (pOET8.VE1; pOET8.VE2; pOET8.VE3). ...

A question that comes up from time to time is the use of co-infection with baculovirus vectors for multiple protein expression in insect...

A question we are asked from time to time is to identify baculovirus transfer vectors compatible with our flashBAC™ system. We obviously...

Variable expression of multi-component protein complexes is increasingly necessary as more sophisticated projects are attempted.  But how...

Between initial tests and larger scale up you may want to conduct intermediate scale recombinant protein production using baculovirus...

Oxford Expression Technologies are the experts when it comes to the science of baculovirus. For almost 10 years now we have specialised...

Have you ever had the experience of adapting insect cells to a new growth medium?  We recently had to do this for a client project...

A question that often comes up from clients is what is the best signal peptide to use for baculovirus-expressed secreted recombinant...

There are many methods available for the titration of recombinant baculoviruses.  One of the most convenient is the use of the...