Isn’t It Ironic?

I just happened to notice that my post yesterday on my protein purification woes drew Millipore as an advertising sponsor.  Obviously, this makes sense – I talk protein science, scientists come and read, a life science research biotech company sees a target audience.

But the irony comes in the particular product which Millipore is toting – a 0.5mL centrifugal filter for concentrating or desalting/buffer exchange of proteins.

Have I mentioned that I have literally spent 3 years (do you see a trend in my never-ending, unsolvable research problems) attempting to dialyze imidazole out of Protein X?  And how many Millipore columns I have used?

Millipore, why must you taunt me so?  What’s next, Pierce advertising their Slide-a-Lyzer dialysis cassettes for quick and easy buffer exchange? (I am pretty sure that I am single-handedly keeping Pierce in business with the number of dialysis cassettes I use for all my unsuccessful dialysis attempts.)

New rule: if you advertise something as “delivers great performance”, then you better come to my lab and make it work with MY protein!