Technology
Magnostics Ltd is a bionanotechnology SME founded on successive research investment by NASA and the EU. We produce the high performance Aurosphere® magnetic beads, which enable rapid, high yield separation for precision medicine.
Superparamagnetic Bead Technology
A breakthrough in performance:
Clinical samples are notoriously difficult to work with using conventional research technics: columns block and nanobeads get lost in viscous fluids. The Aurosphere® superparamagnetic beads are designed specifically for rapid separation from viscous clinical samples and fermentation broths. Large surface areas and small size lead to highly efficient reactions in minutes.
The Aurosphere® beads represent a breakthrough in performance in magnetic separation - the magnetization of these particles is 3x higher.
Regarding the separation speed, Aurosphere® 800nm beads (in red below) are faster than competitors' beads that have similar sizes. Considering that the magnetic force is proportional to the cubic of bead’s diameter, the separation speed using Aurosphere® 800nm beads is so fast that they are comparable with competitor’s 2.8μm beads (in yellow).
Aurosphere® beads have been used and described in these publications:
Journal of Applied Physics (Aurosphere® beads were called MagSense)
