Life Science News and Press Releases

Streamlining ChIP for qPCR Analysis

Porvair Sciences Ltd

12/02/2015

Chromatrap®, a business unit of Porvair Sciences, has an announced solid state ChIP kits which rapidly improve chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) through a unique patented technology that streamlines the process, ensuring chromatin preparation to qPCR analysis can be performed in under five hours.Chromatrap® is a ground breaking technology that offers a quicker, easier and more efficient way of undertaking ChIP assays. Chromatrap® kits for qPCR use...

Extremely Easy to Use Manual Capper

Micronic

12/02/2015

Micronic has launched the new Univo Manual Capper CM480 - a versatile product designed to seal an entire rack of tubes with push caps in a single action.Compact and robust in design the Univo Manual Capper is able to repeatedly and reliably securely cap tubes (up to 1.40 ml) in all ANSI /SLAS format racks up to a maximum height of 48mm. To ensure optimum results an adapter matched to your specific rack type and tube height is supplied.Built to meet the varying needs...

Entry Level Microplate Solvent Evaporator

Porvair Sciences Ltd

26/01/2015

The MiniVap™ blowdown evaporator from Porvair Sciences takes just minutes to remove volatile organic solvents from your 96-well microplates. The MiniVap™ is the perfect tool for labs where smaller numbers of individual plates need drying.Incorporating advanced evaporator head technology and an innovative manifold design, which directly injects heated nitrogen into each well of a 96-well microplate simultaneously, the MiniVap enables researchers to remove the...

Space Saving 96-well Deep Well Plate

Porvair Sciences Ltd

06/01/2015

Porvair Sciences low profile 96-well deep well plate achieves a storage volume of 1.1ml / well in a height of just 27 mm enabling more plates to be stacked or stored in a given space.Manufactured from extractables-free polypropylene in an ISO 10,000 approved clean room environment - Porvair low profile plates undergo extensive quality testing to ensure they are of the highest quality, certified free from DNase, RNase and endotoxin contamination.Combining an affordable...

Ebola Antigens and Antibodies for ELISA

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

06/01/2015

AMSBIO has announced several products suitable for the development of an ELISA detection assay for the Ebola virus.The new products comprise 3 different monoclonal antibodies to the Ebola virus and 2 recombinant proteins (from the Sudan and Zaire strains) suitable for use in producing an optimised ELISA test kit for Ebola. An antigen-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) test for Ebola offers the possibility of diagnosis within the first few days after symptoms...

Breaking Barriers in siRNA Delivery

Integrated DNA Technologies

18/12/2014

Discover a new approach to transfection in the latest DECODED article from IDTCORALVILLE, IA (December 16, 2014) – To accelerate the understanding of disease and the development of gene knockdown therapies, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is facilitating the advancement of a new transfection technique. This nanoparticle-based method is explored in a recent DECODED article contributed by Precision NanoSystems Inc. (PNI). By combining IDT’s highly potent...

Highly Versatile Single Tube Code Reader

Micronic

04/12/2014

The Tracxer Code Reader TS201 MINI is high-speed storage tube code reading at its best. Attractively designed to enhance your lab space - the Tracxer TS201 MINI istruly versatile - it reads 1D rack barcodes, 1D barcoded tubes and 2D Data-Matrix coded tubes (in 96-, 48- and 24-well formats) all in less than a second. The Tracxer TS201 MINI is a plug-and-play reader that requires no software installation and is very easy to use. The read data can be sent to multiple...

Merck Millipore Launches Kit for Analyzing NFкB Translocation by Imaging Flow Cytometry

Merck Millipore

25/11/2014

• Permits quantitative, statistically robust assessment of NFкB translocation• Allows for analysis at single-cell level• Optimized and designed for Amnis® imaging flow cytometersDarmstadt, November 19, 2014 - Merck Millipore the Life Science division of Merck, today introduced the Amnis® NFкB Translocation kit, which allows researchers to better study the nuclear translocation of NFкB, a...

Irvine Scientific Introduces DMSO-Free, Chemically-Defined Cryopreservation Solution for Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Irvine Scientific

24/11/2014

SANTA ANA, California – Nov 18, 2014: Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the innovation and manufacture of cell culture media, announced today the addition of PRIME-XV® FreezIS DMSO-Free, a chemically-defined cryopreservation solution for human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) that is free of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and animal-derived components. Amid growing concerns that DMSO may compromise the potency of MSCs, offering an effective DMSO-free...

Fast, Accurate ID of MRSA by detecting mecA gene mRNA

Alpha Laboratories

21/11/2014

New mecA XpressFISH The new AdvanDx mecA XpressFISH assay, exclusively available in the UK from Alpha Laboratories, is the first and only molecular assay that detects the active resistance gene (mecA) from positive Staphylococcus aureus blood cultures. It provides results one to three days sooner than conventional methods, allowing for early and appropriate therapy for patients with methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive S.aureus (MSSA)...