AVES LABS Profile

Aves Labs is a leading global provider of polyclonal chicken antibodies (IgY) and custom peptide synthesis for life science research. For over twenty years, our scientific expertise and innovative solutions have helped customers tackle complex problems from research and development to production.

Specializing in high-affinity custom chicken antibody (IgY) production, antibodies can be generated by customer-supplied, recombinant proteins and synthetic peptides as well as unique, customer-supplied antigens.

Aves Labs is dedicated to humane practices in producing polyclonal antibodies in chickens. Everything we do reflects our serious commitment to customer satisfaction, animal care, and the delivery of the highest quality antibodies.

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Higher titres against highly-conserved mammalian gene products

Since chickens are at least 100 million years removed from mammals, they tend to recognize any mammalian gene product as foreign and mount vigorous immune responses.

Easier double immunostaining

Chicken IgYs can be used together with mouse and rabbit antibodies, without the danger of cross-reactivity. Secondary antibodies against chicken IgYs don’t cross-react with mammalian IgGs.

Animal-friendly

We purify the antibodies from eggs, not serum. With rabbits, in contrast, serum is obtained by restraining the animals, and performing ear bleeds or cardiac puncture. It is simply a more humane way to produce antibodies.

Cost-effective and longer-lasting

Our chicken antibody preparations are >90% IgY, and have shelf-lives of 5 years or more at 4ËšC. In contrast, rabbit serum (which is what most companies provide) has only a limited shelf-life at 4ËšC (measured in weeks-to-months), and some biological activity is lost when frozen. The cost of having rabbit antibodies purified to comparable purities (i.e., protein A-purified) is very costly.

Nearly unlimited quantities

We collect about 18 "immune eggs" from each hen, but only use 6 "immune eggs" to prepare your IgY preparation. We then store the remaining 12 "immune eggs" in the refrigerator, in case you need more antibody down the road. Moreover, we can continue to house the hens (for an additional charge), in case you want us to perform additional injections. <?p>

No "Fc domain" within the stem portion of a chicken IgY

This provides several advantages over rabbit IgGs:

• It reduces the likelihood of having false positives in diagnostic applications, since it is the mammalian Fc domain that binds "rheumatoid factors" or other naturally occurring anti-Fc antibodies.
• Does not activate mammalian complement systems, allowing the use of chicken IgYs in in vivo applications.
• Does not bind to mammalian Fc receptors, avoiding non-specific binding to cells expressing such receptors (e.g., macrophages and dendritic cells).

Higher signals

Chicken IgYs contain a larger glycosylation index, allowing more labeling with HRP and other antibody tags. This produces higher signals.