The modeling service will enable industrial clients to evaluate, prior to flight, how much improvement the microgravity environment of space will produce.
Electrophoresis is a processing technique widely used on Earth.
It separates desired biological material from a mixture on the basis of electrical charge. During flights aboard the Space Shuttle in the 1980s, the McDonnell Douglas Corp. was able to separate up to 718 times more material and to reach purity levels four times higher than ground units. Inc. Lanham, Richman and Rose were members of the original McDonnell Douglas team. Units will be customized to meet industry demand. New bioseparation and bioprocessing techniques are a major need in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries where innovative genetic engineering approaches have produced unique separation and processing problems.