AmideBio giving product to researchers

LOUISVILLE – AmideBio LLC plans to start distributing a peptide research product used in Alzheimer’s research free of charge in first quarter 2012.

The Louisville-based biotech company plans to give small amounts of the product – called amyloid – to researchers at universities and pharmaceutical companies across the country, said Misha Plam, a co-founder of AmideBio.

Plam said that AmideBio’s new amyloid is a biological product that is 99 percent pure, while others currently being used for research are synthetic – and have about 97 percent purity.

The difference in purity can make a huge impact on future research results, Plam said. Once…