Sebia Electrophoresis is the worldwide leader in the production of the most innovative electrophoresis tools, including gel electrophoresis instrumentation – HYDRASYS^®. Gel electrophoresis is primarily used to separate proteins – the chemicals that make up cell and organ structure, as well as carry out reactions like breaking down food and fighting off diseases – according to their size, electric charge, and other physical properties. An electric current is used to move the protein particles across a span of gel, which functions as a solid phase in which the proteins migrate. The identification of proteins in a person’s blood, urine or CSF sample is particularly useful to those in the medical field, as the clinical data obtained from gel electrophoresis helps identify and diagnose disease and abnormalities.

Gel electrophoresis can be performed primarily using one of two materials as the gel base, agarose or polyacrylamide. At Sebia, we specialize in agarose gel electrophoresis. Agarose can be extracted from seaweed and holds several advantages over polyacrylamide, the primary reasons being because of the speed in which samples can be processed and the relative permanent nature of the gel once processing is complete.