Eppendorf twin.tec PCR plates
03 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Eppendorf South Pacific Pty Ltd
Eppendorf’s two-component PCR plate has been designed to be easily divisible, saving material and money when running smaller-scale experiments. The twin.tec unskirted 96-well plates fit almost all available PCR instruments and can be snapped into four separate 24-well segments and the empty wells saved for future use.
Bio-Rad Mini-PROTEAN Tris-Glycine extended (TGX) precast gels
03 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Bio-Rad Laboratories Pty Ltd
Mini-PROTEAN Tris-Glycine extended (TGX) precast gels have been developed for protein electrophoresis using the standard Laemmli buffer system. The modification extends the gel shelf life to more than 12 months and can be run to completion in as little as 12 minutes.
Xenometrix Ames MPF and Ames II assay kits
03 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Haematex Research Pty Ltd
Xenometrix Ames MPF and Ames II assay kits can be used to screen pharmaceutical compounds for mutagenicity before they are considered for clinical trials. The kits are modified to use liquid culture instead of agar plates.
Bio-Rad Laboratories CFX qPCR automation system
03 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Bio-Rad Laboratories Pty Ltd
The CFX automation system enables walk-away, high-throughput qPCR on Bio-Rad’s CFX96 and CFX384 real-time PCR detection systems.
Xenometrix PAN I Cytotoxicity assay kit
21 July, 2010 | Supplied by: Haematex Research Pty Ltd
In order to determine which novel compounds are warranted for further development, early detection of unwanted cytotoxic effects is vital.
To shmoo or not to shmoo?
06 July, 2010
Yeast cells decide whether to have sex with each other within two minutes of meeting according to research published in ‘Nature’. One of the authors of the study, from Imperial College London, says the new insights into how yeast cells decide to mate could be helpful for researchers looking at how cancer cells and stem cells develop.
GeneCopoeia miTarget miRNA target sequence expression clones
21 June, 2010 | Supplied by: United Bioresearch Products Pty Ltd
GeneCopoeia offers genome-wide microRNA 3′ UTR target constructs in mammalian expression vector systems with luciferase reporter genes for functional validation experiments.
Qiagen expands partnership
21 June, 2010
Qiagen has entered into an agreement with the Dutch molecular diagnostic component supplier Genome Diagnostics, which covers the development and commercialisation of six new tests until 2011.
Nucleofection - combining high transfection performance with superior preservation of functionality
20 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Capsugel Australia Pty Ltd
Nucleofection has become a method of choice whenever transfection of primary cells or difficult-to-transfect cell lines is required.
Integrated DNA Technologies Zen double-quenched probe
07 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Glycon Pty Ltd
Integrated DNA Technologies has introduced a double-quenched probe that increases the accuracy and reliability of 5′ nuclease qPCR experiments. While traditional probes have 20-30 bases between the dye and quencher, this probe design positions an internal Zen quencher only 9 bases from the 5′ fluorophore.
Applied Biosystems SOLiD Total RNA-Seq Kit
07 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Applied Biosystems Pty Ltd
The SOLiD Total RNA-Seq Kit offers a streamlined solution for the construction of next-generation sequencing libraries for either whole transcriptome or small RNA analysis. The optimised kit enables hypothesis-neutral discovery of coding RNA, non-coding RNA, novel transcripts, alternate splicing, small RNAs and isoforms, while maintaining accurate sequence representation and preserving strand orientation.
Agilent Technologies SurePrint G3 gene expression microarray
07 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Agilent Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
Agilent Technologies has introduced the SurePrint G3 gene expression microarray, providing up to one million features per standard 1 x 3″ slide for added throughput, and coverage which includes both coding and non-coding RNA.
Bio-Rad TC10 automated cell counter
07 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Bio-Rad Laboratories Pty Ltd
The TC10 automated cell counter accurately and reproducibly provides total mammalian cell counts in 30 s or less - eliminating the need for manually counting cells under the microscope using a haemocytometer.
DuPont Qualicon BAX System Listeria assays
07 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Oxoid Australia Pty Ltd
Food microbiologists can obtain next-day Listeria results with the DuPont Qualicon BAX System Listeria monocytogenes 24E and BAX System Genus Listeria 24E assays. The speed of these assays enables users to obtain a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer before products are released from the factory.
Millipore FlowCellect kits
07 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Merck Pty Limited
The FlowCellect kits are suitable for the analysis of cell health using flow cytometry. The kits permit researchers to evaluate mitochondrial health in drug compound screening, apoptosis-related research and understanding the mechanism of diseases.
