Life Science News and Press Releases

Improving Overall Growth & Performance of Primary Neurons

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

23/09/2013

Developed as an alternative to B27® * - GS21 from AMSBIO is a next generation serum-free neural media supplement, based on the formulation of NS21 Supplement, designed to improve the overall growth and performance of primary neurons.GS21 has been specifically optimized for the maturation and long-term viability of primary rat and mouse neurons in culture, without the need for co-culture with astrocyte feeder cells. In experimental tests, GS21 has been shown to...

Toolkit for Nucleosome & Histone Research

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

30/08/2013

AMSBIO has announced addition of new biotinylated histones and nucleosomes to its expanding range of recombinant nucleosomes, purified nucleosomes and full length histone proteins.A nucleosome is the basic unit of DNA packaging. It consists of a segment of DNA wound around a core (“octamer”) of 8 histone proteins (two each of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The “tails” of these histone proteins stick out, where they can be modified by a number of...

High Throughput 96- & 384-Well DNA Purification

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

19/07/2013

MagSi-DNA cleanFIX from AMSBIO offers a cost effective solution for purifying DNA fragments, removing all unwanted side products and reagents, such as single nucleotides, terminator dyes, primers and primer dimers, enzymes, buffers and salts.In many genomics applications, purification of DNA fragments is required to prevent downstream interference with analysis methods. Purification of PCR reactions often requires removal of dNTPs, primers, enzymes, salt by-products and...

Optimised Basement Membrane Extracts for Organoid Growth and Xenograft Models

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

02/07/2013

AMSBIO announces the availability of two new formulations of Basement Membrane Extract (BME) known as Cultrex BME 2 (organoid growth matrix) and Cultrex BME 3 (xenograft / tumorgraft matrix).The new products have been developed to address the heterogeneous nature of tissue and organ microenvironments that not only arise from organ specific stromal cells, growth factors, proteoglycans, and protein composition but also from the stiffness or tensile strength of the BME. Many...

3D Spheroid Assays for Cancer Drug Screening

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

25/06/2013

AMSBIO has introduced a new range of 96-well format 3D Spheroid Cell Proliferation / Viability Assays, providing a new tool to allow cell-based assays to be carried out in 3D.The new AMSBIO 3D Spheroid Proliferation/Viability Assay provides a useful tool for modeling tumor response in vitro. The kit utilises a 3D Culture Qualified 96 Well Spheroid Formation Plate alongside a specialised Spheroid Formation Extracellular Matrix to drive aggregation and/or spheroid formation...

Custom designed long and highly modified mRNAs

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

04/06/2013

AMSBIO offers a proven service for synthesis of custom-designed, long mRNA and highly modified mRNAs. Working from customer supplied target sequence data - AMSBIO has the experience, expertise and facilities to provide a complete, high quality mRNA custom design service. Synthetic mRNA from AMSBIO is supplied highly purified and ready-to-use. Following chemical synthesis of the synthetic DNA, the dsDNA fragments are cloned in a plasmid, purified and full sequencing...

High Yield RNA Isolation without the Paraffin Removal Step

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

15/05/2013

AMSBIO offers a range of kits and reagents for the extraction (isolation) of high quality RNA from FFPE tissues and LCM samples that can be used not only for PCR but also microarray applications.Using AMSBIO ExpressArt® RNA isolation technology it is now possible to achieve high RNA yield and maximum sequence length from FFPE or LCM samples without the paraffin removal step. ExpressArt® RNA technology overcomes traditional limitations placed on research due to...

Highly Specific Aptamer Protein Precipitation Kits

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

30/04/2013

AMSBIO has announced a new range of Aptamer Protein Precipitation Kits that bind with unmatched high specificity and affinity to target molecules.The new AMSBIO Aptoprecipitation (AP) / Co-aptoprecipitation (Co-AP) Kits are aptamer based protein precipitation kits designed to provide easy, quick and consistent protein precipitation. The new kits offer a range of unique characteristics and provide significant advantages over alternative methods.Based upon a proprietary...

Comprehensive Tissue Biorepository and Collection Services

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

23/04/2013

AMSBIO has announced further expansion of its tissue biorepository and collection services** to now include blood products from human donors with auto-immune and neurological conditions. Whole blood, plasma, serum, PBMCs and cerebrospinal fluid samples are available from a wide variety of donors. In addition AMSBIO is now able to offer collection services of patient samples that meet the demographic and medical history requirements of specific research...

Effective Cryopreservation of iPS Cells

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

04/04/2013

STEM CELLBANKER® from AMSBIO is a chemically defined freezing medium with optimised formulation for stem cells and iPS cells storage as well as other valuable cells.In a recent study to determine the best cryopreservation solution to maintain induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, a team of researchers from the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine (Japan) compared 12 kinds of commercially prepared cryopreservation solutions and found that STEM CELLBANKER**...