This year, the Cosmetic-360 Meeting organised by the world’s leading perfumery cosmetics network, Cosmetic Valley, will take place in Paris on October 13th & 14th.

As a member of this network, tebu-bio will again be participating in this trade show focussed on open innovations. This congress is an excellent opportunity to discover the innovative solutions designed by tebu-bio laboratories in the field of R&D and in vitro testings aiming at better understanding the mechanisms of action and further assessing the efficiency of ingredients.

Are you working on autophagy,? Or on GPCR de-orphaning? On the MAP kinase pathway or cellular metabolism? Maybe on pathways related to cellular metabolism?

Several compounds are known as modulators of these pathways and research fields and can be used as useful tools to study and characterize specific steps. Nonetheless, it is quite time consuming and expensive to order all these chemicals from different sources. Targeted compound libraries represent a convenient alternative.

The Picokine™ line of ELISA kits is the culmination of over 20 years of development. Today, I would like to tell you a bit more about this innovation by Boster for your ELISA tests.

Fig 1: CD39 and CD73 leading to elevated levels of extracellular adenosine.

Extracellular adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP) is released by dying and damaged cells, and it acts on many immune cells to promote inflammation. On the other hand, the unphosphorylated
metabolite, adenosine, functions as an anti-inflammatory molecule. Two extracellular ecto-5´-Nucleotidases, CD39, and CD73, convert extracellular ATP to ADP/AMP and AMP to adenosine, respectively, leading to elevated levels of extracellular adenosine (Fig 1).