Intellectual Property and Know How

The Bio-Works company has unique access to cutting edge intellectual property and know how. This IP is focussed on agarose-based micro-spheres, or beads, that make up the type of separation media that dominates research and industrial scale protein chromatography today.

Higher Bead Rigidity

The rigidity of the agarose beads is vital if compression is to be avoided under high flow rate methodologies. Bio-Works has know how for a  cross-linking technology that results in a bead rigidity that is several times higher than current products on the market. This allows for the use of very high flow rates and therefore  large volumes of fluid may be processed more economically than by using conventional methods.

On-going patent applications

Bio-Works has finalized submission of two patents applications, one covering an improved Agarose bead production method. The second patent application deals with a novel way to capture arsenic from water.