The study of biomolecules and bioparticles has achieved great advances, thus increasing the productivity with upstream improvements. Nowadays, downstream processes are the bottleneck in the production of some biopharmaceuticals, a change from the previous years' scene. Current purification platforms will reach their physical limits at some point, creating the necessity for new approaches. This article reviews an alternative method for the extraction and purification of biomolecules/bioparticles denominated as
aqueous two‐phase systems (ATPSs)
. Biocompatibility and readiness to scale up are some of the characteristics of ATPSs and we also discuss its application in the biotechnology field.