At Cambridge Bioscience, we partner with industry-leading suppliers to deliver a comprehensive range of high-quality research services tailored to support and accelerate your drug discovery, protein production, and antibody development needs. Explore our service portfolio below, designed to meet the growing demands of academic, biotech and pharmaceutical researchers.
Contact our drug discovery experts for help finding a service provider that best suits your research needs.
Bio X Cell – In vivo antibody production services
Our collaboration with Bio X Cell enables researchers to access in vivo antibody production tailored for preclinical studies. These services are ideal for labs requiring:
Bio X Cell understands the challenges of achieving large-scale hybridoma culture and subsequent low-endotoxin antibody purification. Their expert team handles the entire process using optimised production methods that deliver antibodies more efficiently than traditional approaches. Their service includes:
- Custom antibody production: Scaled antibody generation from hybridoma lines, from milligram to
gram quantities - Cell banking services: Secure cryopreservation and storage of hybridoma cells
- Contamination screening: Routine mycoplasma detection to ensure culture integrity
- Antibody isotyping: Rapid identification of immunoglobulin class and subclass
- Aggregation analysis: Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) for assessing antibody purity and stability
- Health monitoring: Screening for murine pathogens to ensure animal model compatibility
- Isotype controls: Matched control antibodies for accurate experimental design
- Endotoxin-free buffers: InVivoPure™ formulation buffers optimised for in vivo applications
With extensive experience in murine and rat models, Bio X Cell ensures high-quality antibodies with consistent batch-to-batch performance.
Why choose Bio X Cell?
Bio X Cell is the go-to provider for in vivo antibodies, with over 25,000 peer-reviewed citations worldwide. Just like their popular main catalogue offerings, their custom production services are supported by years of experience and rigorous quality control. A dedicated project manager supports you throughout, ensuring clear communication, fast turnaround, and consistently high-quality results.
Think in vivo, think Bio X Cell.
BPS Bioscience – Expertise in cell lines, assays & high-throughput screening
We proudly offer an extensive suite of drug discovery services from BPS Bioscience, a global leader in assay development and screening technologies.
Headline services:
- Custom cell line development: Generation of stable cell lines expressing target proteins or reporters.
- Assay development: Design and optimisation of biochemical and cell-based assays.
- High-throughput screening services: Accelerated compound screening for hit identification.
- iPSC-derived cell engineering: Custom-engineered iPS cells, including differentiated cardiomyocytes and neural stem cells for disease modeling and screening.
- Custom proteins & conjugates: High-purity, high-activity recombinant proteins and antibodies, with custom labeling and modifications available.
- CRISPR/Cas9 editing: Knock-in/knock-out services using CRISPR, with delivery via transient transfection or viral systems.
Whether you're targeting epigenetics, immune checkpoints, or virus-host interactions, BPS Bioscience brings validated tools and deep expertise to help streamline your drug discovery pipeline. To find out more, visit our BPS Bioscience services page.
Why choose BPS Bioscience?
BPS Bioscience delivers a comprehensive suite of services to support a wide range of research applications in drug discovery. Their team of expert scientists provides fast, dependable solutions to clients around the globe. BPS have years of experience working with leading pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotech labs. With a strong focus on quality, responsiveness, and affordability, BPS Bioscience is committed to delivering high-quality results on time, tailored to your custom project and testing requirements while providing you with milestone updates.
Cayman Chemical – Custom chemical synthesis
Through Cayman Chemical, we offer custom chemical synthesis services designed for the development of novel small molecules, metabolites, and labeled compounds. Cayman’s experienced chemists can support:
Synthesis, purification & characterisation: Custom synthesis of small molecules with complete purification and analytical validation to ensure high quality.- Analytical standards development: Production of high-purity reference standards to support accurate quantification and method development.
- Small molecule analog synthesis, SAR Studies & Library Generation: Design and synthesis of structural analogs, SAR compounds, and focused libraries to accelerate medicinal chemistry and screening efforts.
- Specialised syntheses: Development of complex or custom molecules, including hard-to-synthesize or reactive compounds.
- GMP & process development: Scalable synthesis with GMP capabilities and process optimisation for preclinical through clinical supply.
- Lipid nanoparticle (LNP) development: Custom lipid synthesis and formulation expertise to support LNP-based delivery systems.
Why choose Cayman Chemical?
Cayman Chemical brings over 40 years of chemical synthesis expertise to support your drug discovery and analytical research. Their custom synthesis services are highly versatile, encompassing novel compound design, stable isotope labeling, and complex route development. Cayman’s chemists are known for their technical insight, problem-solving ability, and responsiveness - making them ideal partners for labs needing custom molecules not found in commercial catalogs. With a focus on quality and scientific rigor, Cayman helps researchers bring innovative ideas from concept to compound.
KACTUS Bio – Custom protein expression with SAMS™ technology
Through our partnership with KACTUS Bio, we offer custom recombinant protein expression services leveraging their proprietary SAMS™ platform - a unique system optimised for speed, yield and protein quality.
Custom recombinant protein production service includes:
- MHC complexes
- Virus-like particle (VLP)-displayed antigens
- CRISPR-associated enzymes
- Challenging proteins requiring custom expression protocols
KACTUS Bio’s capabilities enable fast turnaround and consistent performance, even for proteins that are notoriously difficult to express.
Why choose KACTUS?
KACTUS Bio is revolutionising recombinant protein expression with their proprietary SAMS™ platform, which ensures exceptional yields, purity and biological activity - even for complex or difficult-to-express proteins. Their custom protein services are trusted by biotech, pharma and academic labs for the rapid production of MHC complexes, CRISPR enzymes, and VLP-displayed antigens. With a strong focus on speed, scalability and customer collaboration, KACTUS delivers reliable, research-ready proteins that can support anything from structural studies to therapeutic development.