AK Rainbow - A new light on biotechnology

Imagine...

1. A doctor in a GP Surgery knowing immediately that a patient needs antibiotics, or is at risk of heart disease.
2. A vet in a field knowing with 5 minutes whether an animal has foot and mouth disease.
3. A drug company screening thousands of compounds a day to find the one that kills a cancer cell.
4. A simple test kit that, within seconds, can test a specific toxin in the environment, or a pathogen released by a bio-terrorist.

All this is possible because of the revolutionary technology called Rainbow proteins™.

Rainbow proteins are genetically engineered bioluminescent proteins that change colour when then react with a substance of biomedical importance.Rainbow proteins measure the amount of the substance by the ratio of light intensity at two colours detected simultaneously. Rainbow proteins have huge potential in billion dollar markets. This is the next generation of luminescence technology Professor Tony Campbell initiated in the 1970's at the University of Wales College of Medicine, replacing radioactivity in clinical immunoassay. It is used in 100 million clinical tests per year world-wide, and received the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 1998.

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