Caliper Life Sciences and SRU Biosystems to Offer Label-free Services for Cell-based and Biochemical Assays

Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services division intends to expand its contract services offering to include label-free assays from SRU Biosystems

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SRU Biosystems today announced that Caliper Life Sciences will use SRU Biosystems’ label-free BIND^® technology to offer new functional assays as part of its Discovery Alliances and Services.

“Caliper Life Sciences is an excellent partner for SRU. They are uniquely positioned to offer BIND technology as a contract service to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical communities. They have tremendous knowledge utilizing innovative technologies to advance drug discovery and will provide an outstanding new service to the drug discovery industry”

The label-free BIND technology, developed by SRU Biosystems, provides researchers with a new ultra-high throughput screening and profiling system for cell-based and biochemical assays. BIND technology for cell-based assays offers an orthogonal screening tool to access new hits and lead molecules that are not detected by other systems, including compounds that undergo G-protein switching, non-G protein coupled pathways, inverse and partial agonists, and receptor desensitization. The screening platform is robust and can be applied to both over-expressed and endogenous receptors, and can be used with low numbers of primary cells. The technology can also used for receptor profiling on native cells, due to the high sensitivity of the response. Lastly, the BIND technology provides a way to easily screen Gi-coupled GPCR targets and ion channels, which have been traditionally difficult to assess.

“Caliper Life Sciences is an excellent partner for SRU. They are uniquely positioned to offer BIND technology as a contract service to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical communities. They have tremendous knowledge utilizing innovative technologies to advance drug discovery and will provide an outstanding new service to the drug discovery industry,” said Rick Wagner, Ph.D., President and CEO of SRU Biosystems.

SRU Biosystems’ label-free BIND technology has extraordinary sensitivity and application flexibility. It can be used for complex cellular assays such as GPCR pathway analysis, ion channel assays and cell adhesion assays; as well as biochemical assays, such as protein-protein binding, enzyme assays, and fragment and small molecule screening. These applications have been utilized in exploring assay development, 1536-well high throughput screening, and lead profiling. SRU anticipates a continued expansion of its label-free BIND products, creating new assay capabilities.

About Caliper Life Sciences

Caliper Life Sciences is a premier provider of cutting-edge technologies enabling researchers in the life sciences industry to create life-saving and enhancing medicines and diagnostic tests more quickly and efficiently. Caliper is aggressively innovating new technology to bridge the gap between in vitro assays and in vivo results and then translating those results into cures for human disease. Caliper’s portfolio of offerings includes state-of-the-art microfluidics, lab automation & liquid handling, optical imaging technologies, and discovery & development outsourcing solutions. For more information please visit www.caliperLS.com.

Caliper is a registered trademark of Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. and SRU BIND is a trademark of SRU Biosystems, Inc.

About SRU Biosystems

SRU Biosystems, Inc., is a life science company offering novel, label-free tools used to answer important biological questions in biomedical research and pharmaceutical drug discovery. SRU’s label-free BIND^® Technology can rapidly analyze the interactions of genomic, peptide, antibody or small molecule compound libraries against a wide range of cellular and biochemical targets. www.srubiosystems.com