“I’ve always loved proteins,” says Michal Mayer with a sincere smile on her face. “You don’t dedicate your life to this if you don’t love proteins,” the biochemist and head protein researcher at Day 8 ...

With the growing demand for healthy diets and functional foods, plant extracts and plant protein peptides are increasingly being used in food processing, health supplement manufacturing, and ...

Researchers developed a two-step fermentation using Lactobacillus plantarum and yogurt cultures to remove 95–99% of unpleasant odors from soy, pea, chickpea, and other plant proteins, improving flavor ...

Participants at a recent downstream processing meeting sponsored by Sartorius Stedim Biotech considered a host of new technologies to speed and streamline protein purification, including membrane ...

Penn State chemical engineers have demonstrated proof of concept for a new protein purification process that combines ultrafiltration's high throughput with high specificity achievable through ...

Virginia-based Nutriati – which has developed a patented process yielding highly functional pulse proteins and flours with potential to unlock new opportunities in plant-based meat, dairy, gluten-free ...

Depending on the process and who provides the statistics, downstream processing accounts for between 50–80% of the cost of producing biotech drugs. Whatever the exact number, protein purification ...

Conventionally, chromatography is used for protein purification, which is extremely expensive. Alternatively, the protein crystallization method could be used to determine protein structure, but this ...