Agilent Technologies announces its new SampliQ Solid Phase Extraction cartridges. These columns are available in new sorbents and particle sizes, including Weak Anion Exchange (WAX), Mixed-Mode Anion Exchange (SAX), and Mixed-Mode Cation Exchange (SCX). The cartridges are offered in bulk or in a 96-well format. For more information, please visit http://www.agilent.com/chem.
Amsbio’s Screen Quest™ Calcium Assay kit is now available for homogeneous fluorescence-based assays for detecting intracellular calcium mobilization. The calcium assay kit can be used to monitor G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and calcium channels. Assays can be performed in a 96-well or 384-well microplate format.
Amsbio has also announced 4C5—an anti-DDK monoclonal antibody for the detection of the DYKDDDDK epitope—the same protein sequence as FLAG-tag. This antibody can be used for Western blot, immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence, and flow cytometry applications. For more information on these kits, please visit www.amsbio.com.
Assay Designs now offers enzyme immunoassay kits for the measurement of creatinine, glutathione, glutathione reductase, glutathione S-transferase, hemoglobin, P450 demethylation, palladium, and thiol in a variety of sample matrices. The company also offers an enzyme immunoassay kit for the measurement of serotonin without the need to acylate the standards and samples.
Several assays for the detection of glutathione (GSH) and activity of the glutathione-regulating enzymes glutathione reductase (GR) and glutathione S-transferase (GST) samples are also available. These assays use a fluorescent readout and are compatible with whole blood, serum, plasma, erythrocytes, urine, cell lysates, and tissue. For more information, please visit www.assaydesigns.com.
Biostatus Ltd. introduces CyGELTM for the microinjection of zebrafish embryos. Live embryos are placed in CyGELTM, injected, and then recovered into embryo medium. The material offers the ability to repeatedly set and liquefy by raising or lowering the temperature. The solid to gel transition temperature for CyGELTM has been set at room temperature. For information on this product, visit www.biostatus.com.
BMG Labtech has launched the OrisTM Cell Migration Assay kit. The 96-well plate comes in 3 coatings (32 wells each)—tissue culture treated, collagen I, and fibronectin—allowing the effect of different extracellular matrix components to be tested. The real-time monitoring of cell migration is designed for use on a POLARstar Omega from BMG Labtech equipped with a CO2 gas-vented system. More information on this kit can be found by visiting www.bmglabtech.com.
BrandTech Scientific, Inc. introduces its new BRANDplates
® multiwell plate line for immunoassays. Three different surfaces are available—immunoGrade™, hydroGrade™, and lipoGrade™—providing high-binding, hydrophilic, and hydrophobic surfaces, respectively, to allow optimization of protein immobilization. These plates are available in a variety of well bottoms and colors in 96-, 384-, and 1536-well formats. Additional information is available at www.brandtech.com.
Enzo Life Sciences has introduced a number of new kits, including the ProteoStat™ PDI assay kit for detection of protein disulfide isomerase in a homogeneous assay format and the Organelle-ID™ RGB reagent kit. The Organelle-ID™ RGB reagent kit contains 3 cell-permeable molecular probes—a red fluorescent lysosomal, green fluorescent mitochondrial, and blue fluorescent nucleic acid dye—in a single-tube format for multiplexed visualization of organelles. In addition, the company offers a hemoglobin detection kit for photometric detection of hemoglobin in a single reaction solution. For more information on these and other kits, visit www.enzolifesciences.com.
FortéBio launched the new Dip and Read residual Protein A detection kit. The kit consists of biosensors and reagents required to quantitate Protein A or biosimilars such as MabSelect SuRe™ in the presence of human IgG. For more information, visit www.fortebio.com.
Hamilton Robotics introduces conductive CO-RE (compressed O-ring expansion) tips for 384-channel dispensing on the Microlab® STAR liquid handling platform. The tips are packaged in nested tip racks containing 20 racks to a tray. The CO-RE 384 tips are conductive, enabling capacitance liquid-level detection on the Hamilton CO-RE 384 STP multichannel head.
The company also announced the Microlab® NIMBUS Heater/Shaker Package, an integrated system that incorporates automated pipetting with orbital plate shaking and heating. The package includes device-mounting hardware. For more information, visit www.hamiltonrobotics.com.
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) now offers PrimeTime™ Assays, designed for 5′ nuclease assays. The assays are available in 3 different sizes (Mini, Standard, and XL). In addition, for the Standard and XL sizes, selection of the dye-quencher combination and primer-to-probe ratio can be specified to meet experimental demands.
IDT also announced an upgrade to its miRCat™ small RNA cloning system. The kit now includes Performa® Spin Columns from Edge BioSystems. Information on these assays can be found by visiting www.idtdna.com.
New England BioLabs has introduced 5 new high-fidelity restriction enzymes: StyI-HF, AgeI-HF, KpnI-HF, BsaI-HF, and PstI-HF. The company also offers the BioLux line of products that use secreted Gaussia luciferase (GLuc) and Cypridina luciferase (CLuc) in reporter assays. These luciferases can be used alone or together as a dual system. For information, please visit www.neb.com.
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) has introduced 3 new CytoSure™ ISCA aCGH arrays. The 8 × 60k, 4 × 180k, and 4 × 44k CytoSure™ ISCA formats focus on disease and syndrome-associated genome regions, in addition to offering whole-genome coverage. These kits use a 60-mer probe design for detection of genetic aberrations. Each array is accompanied by the CytoSure™ Interpret analysis software. For further information on OGT products and services, please visit http://www.ogt.co.uk.
Porvair Sciences Ltd. introduced the TriSeal™ Pro for medium- to high-throughput plate sealing applications. The system includes a 610-m sealing film roll capable of sealing 5000 plates.
Also available from Porvair Sciences is the Krystal 24 for photometric and cell growth applications. These plates have a 3.1-mL capacity and are available in opaque white and solid black formats. For further information, please visit www.porvair-sciences.com.
System Biosciences (SBI) introduces the new miRZip™ anti-miR virus pool for knockdown screens. The Lenti-miR™ virus library contains a pool of microRNA precursor clones, and the miRZip™ virus library contains all of the miRZip™ anti-miR constructs in a ready to infect lentiviral preparation. The OncoMir virus library contains 141 microRNAs involved in oncogenesis. Each virus within the Lenti-miR™ or OncoMir virus pool will express an individual microRNA precursor in its native context. Each virus in the miRZip™ library pool will express an individual anti-miR shRNA to inhibit a specific microRNA. Details of the individual microRNA precursor clones can be found by visiting www.systembio.com.
Thermo Scientific introduces the Solaris qPCR Gene Expression Assays for real-time PCR. The probe and primer sequence information is provided with every assay. The master mix is blue to allow users to visually assess assay setup. For more information on these assays, visit www.thermo.com.
Trevigen has released its 96-well kits for assessing oxidative stress. These assay kits provide colorimetric detection of 8-oxo-dG, cyclic AMP, cyclic AMP, superoxide dismutase, glutathione reductase, glutathione, and glutathione peroxidase. Visit the company’s Web site at www.trevigen.com for more information.
