Life Science News and Press Releases

Double O-ring Ensures High Integrity Cap Mat Seal

Porvair Sciences Ltd

12/03/2014

Porvair Sciences has introduced new silicone cap mats for its range of 2ml deep well storage blocks. Incorporating a novel double O-ring feature - the new silicone cap mats ensure a tight liquid proof seal every time. Such is the quality of the seal that capped storage blocks can be shaken, inverted or frozen without any loss of stored sample integrity.Manufactured under class 10,000 clean room conditions from high grade silicone, which is resistant to most solvents, the...

ChIP Enzymatic Shearing Kit

Porvair Sciences Ltd

27/01/2014

Porvair Sciences has announced a new Chromatrap Enzymatic Shearing Kit that contains all the necessary reagents and buffers for up to 10 chromatin preparations. The success of a ChIP assay is highly dependent on the quality of chromatin prepared. The Chromatrap® enzymatic shearing kit - allows you to determine optimal shearing conditions for your chromatin preparations and can supply you with enough chromatin to perform up to 24 ChIPs if using standard...

Protein Precipitation Sample Preparation Kit

Porvair Sciences Ltd

15/01/2014

The Combipack™ from Porvair Sciences has been introduced for laboratories tasked with protein precipitation sample preparation. Comprising five colour coded Porvair P3 protein precipitation plates and five 1ml deep well collection plates the Combipack™ contains all the elements required to accelerate the traditionally troublesome procedure at a budget price.Biological samples commonly contain proteins that interfere with downstream applications. The P3 plate...

Epigenetics Researchers Enthuse Over Chromatrap ChIP technology

Porvair Sciences Ltd

02/01/2014

Porvair Sciences reports strong growing demand for their Chromatrap® chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay technology from academic groups and biopharmaceutical organisations involved with epigenetic research.Stephen Knight, Sales and Marketing Director commented "An expanding number of proven application solutions and the introduction of the Chromatrap® 96 HT solid-state ChIP high throughput platform has enabled us to more than double the number of research...

Adaptable Semi-Automatic Microplate Sealer

Porvair Sciences Ltd

12/12/2013

The MiniSeal II semi-automatic microplate sealer from Porvair Sciences comes complete with adapters enabling it to process deep well, shallow well, low profile deep well, filter and assay plates that conform to the ANSI / SLAS standard format. MiniSeal II plate adaptors not currently in use are ingeniously designed to stack on top of the unit to keep them readily available.The MiniSeal II heat sealer operates with a very high force, this together with a powerful 450W...

Porvair Expands Tissue Culture Plasticware Range

Porvair Sciences Ltd

20/11/2013

Porvair Sciences has announced new additions to its popular range of high quality tissue culture (TC) treated laboratory plasticware.Complementing its tissue culture treated flasks, dishes, syringe filters, centrifuge tubes and microplates – Porvair has added new ranges of affordably priced, top quality pipettes, micro-pipettes, pipette fillers, filter tips and cell scrapers.Porvair TC-plastics are made to the highest international standards for material quality,...

Compact All-In-One Multiple Format Mixer

Porvair Sciences Ltd

12/11/2013

Porvair Sciences has introduced the Co-Mix - an accurate, reliable, compact and simple-to-use multi-format mixer. Operated via an intuitive touchscreen the Co-Mix offers effortless changing between mixing of 96- and 384-well microplates in skirted, semi-skirted and unskirted variants plus deep-well plates and PCR tubes / strips. An innovative plate holding mechanism ensures smooth manipulation of microplates eliminating sample spillage and cross-contamination...

Porvair Launches High Throughput ChIP Assay Plate

Porvair Sciences Ltd

17/10/2013

Porvair Sciences has announced that it will officially launch Chromatrap®96 HT – an innovative 96-well chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay plate at Epigenomics of Common Diseases (Wellcome Trust, Cambridge, UK) from 7th-10th November 2013.The Chromatrap®96 HT is a new high throughput ChIP microplate based on the novel spin-column ChIP technology. It is essentially 96 separate Chromatrap spin-columns in one device designed to enable researchers to...

Ultra-Flat Glass Bottom Plates Optimise Imaging of Growing Cells

Porvair Sciences Ltd

08/10/2013

Porvair Sciences new generation Krystal™ glass bottom plates are precision manufactured using a proprietary process resulting in excellent light transmission and an ultra-flat optical plane (+/- 15µm) making them perfect for imaging growing cells.The complete range of 24-, 96- and 384-well Krystal glass bottom microplates is available sterilised for tissue culture to optimise cell growth or non-sterile for assay development. Deep black plates for fluorescent...

Starter Kit for SPE Sample Preparation

Porvair Sciences Ltd

23/09/2013

Porvair Sciences has announced the Microlute SPE sample preparation starter kit. This kit contains everything needed to begin productive SPE sample preparation in a 96 well plate format, including two development filter plates and a popular C18 sorbent filter plate, 2ml collection plates, disposable waste trays and, most importantly, the Microlute Acrylic Vacuum Manifold. The new starter kit offers all the advantages of SPE sample preparation in a convenient microplate...