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NAPIC is a £38m centre dedicated to developing acceptable and planet-friendly alternatives to animal proteins led by researchers from the University of Leeds, James Hutton Institute, University of Sheffield and Imperial College London.

In this edition, we are excited to announce a price freeze moving into 2025, our win of Scale-up of the Year in the Cambridge Business Awards. We also share our latest hematopoietic stem cells blog, new products IL-2 and activin E PLUS and a new application note on growth factor stability.

As part of our commitment to supporting our customers and their science in economically difficult times, we have decided to hold our prices into 2025.

Our latest investment in our mission at Qkine to produce the highest quality growth factors for research. The most state-of-the-art automated system which fills, labels and caps vials with minimal manual intervention.

On the 26th September 2024, Qkine representatives Catherine Elton, CEO and Luana Ferrara, Head of R&D and Collaborations joined some […]

This recent publication in collaboration with Qkine focusses on the optimization of home-brew media for the maintenance of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), using Qkine growth factors to allow cost-effective, practical, and reproducible culture of hiPSCs. Qkine thermostable tag-free FGF2-G3 proteins were found to be highly bioactive, necessitating an 8-fold reduction in concentration for the short (145 aa) form of FGF2-G3 in the optimized media.

Qkine is pleased to announce a new global sales distribution agreement with AI driven digital research platform Scientist.com on their Product Hub Marketplace.

Qkine is delighted to announce the appointment of Rob Nixon to its leadership team as Commercial Director and Paul Grafham […]

Qkine is pleased to announce that it has successfully been recertified with the international standard ISO 9001:2015 by the globally respected UKAS accredited BSI, giving enhanced confidence in the assessment of best practices. This standard shows our dedication to raising the standard of bioactive proteins through implementation of continual improvement, scientific innovation and exceptional scientific and customer support

Qkine is a company run by scientists, and the science is the focus of everything we do.Our theme at ISSCR this year was stress-free stem cell culture - exploring how suppliers of recombinant proteins can proactively improve the quality, availability and functionality of growth factors to generate experimental outcomes faster, easier and more efficiently.

Reflections on the dynamic ISSCR 2024 workshop on Standards for Human Stem Cell Use in Research including recommendations for growth factor supply chains for raw (ancillary materials) for cell therapy and ATMP manufacture.

Commercial sources of recombinant human GDF15 protein, in particular those purified from mammalian expression, are frequently contaminated with trace amounts of TGFβ and related proteins. These trace contaminants cause misleading experimental results due to the picomolar or even femtomolar EC50s of this family of cytokines.  Please be cautious with your source of recombinant GDF15 protein.