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Reliable Assessment of Micronuclei for Genotoxicity Testing in Mice or Rats

Reliable Assessment of Micronuclei for Genotoxicity Testing in Mice orRats Precise and cost-effective micronucleus analysis made easy with theicroFlow Micronucleus Analysis Kit Litron Laboratories, Rochester, NY Mark J. Dycaico<br...

Restriction Endonucleases Undergo Rigorous QC Testing to Ensure Optimal Performance

Stratagene Restriction endonucleases are used in many molecular biology protocols,making the functional purity of critical importance. Each restriction enzymepreparation must be free of contaminants that can potentiall...

Sequence-Validated and Expression-Tested Human cDNA in a Dual Expression Vector

Study protein function more efficiently with standardized clones Rebecca L. Mullinax Heidi Davis David T. Wong Kelly Wynne Vilma Nioko Leonardo DeLeon SanDEe Soares Joseph A. Sorge Edward Marsh Stratagene Phenogenex Stratagene now offers s...

PatchMan - Test Report

The new Ependorf Micromanipulator for electro-physiology, PatchMan, was tested under practical conditions at the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry in Gttingen (Germany). Eppendorf received the following report: The Micromanipulator PatchMan w...

A Multiple Mutation Model System as a Test Development and Training Tool for Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis

Michael Hepburn and Glenn A. Miller, Ph.D., Molecular Profiling Laboratory, Genzyme, Framingham, MA The search for sequence variations in genomic DNA is important in the study of genes that play a role in the development of cancer and a variety of other single and multiple gene disorders...

Microdetermination of Phosphorus Using the SpectraMax Plus Microplate Spectrophotometer: Choice of Microplate, Cuvette, or Test Tube Assay Formats (MaxLine Application Note #24)

Most spectrophotometric methods for inorganic phosphorus (Pi) analysis are based on the color formed upon the reduction of a phosphomolybdate complex. The classic (and still widely-used) method is that of Fiske and Subbarow , in which the reduction is carried out with sulfite and aminonaphtholsulfonic acid. Over the years, modi...

Sciclone ALH Bulk Dispense Precision Testing

Caliper Life Sciences Inc., Applications Laboratory, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA The ability to continuously dispense reagents across multi-well plates and into individual columns (secondary dispensing) is of great importance to high throughput laboratories. Equally important,...

96 Well Pipetting Precision Testing Using the Sciclone ALH with a 384 Fixed-Cannula Array

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Sciclone ALH 3000 Liquid Handler: Functional Characterization of the High Volume Head - Part 1: Plate-to-Plate Precision Testing

Applied Science and Technology Department, Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., Hopkinton, MA 01748 The High Volume Head is one of four multi-channel liquid handling options available for the Sciclone Advanced Liquid Handler (ALH). The architecture of the device includes an arra...

Precision Testing for the Sciclone Advanced Liquid Handler Z8 Option

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., Applications Laboratory, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA The Z8 liquid handling device is an optional accessory to the Sciclone Advanced Liquid Handler (ALH). This device is designed to permit individually and independently controlled access to single we...

New MailFoundry product fights latest spam techniques

and <a href="http://www.tech-faq.com/brute-force-attack.sht...

Historic lists - The greatest rock bands, rock guitarists of all time

Can you imagine this: a week of playing rock all...

Third Wave receives FDA clearance of pharmacogenetic test

It is the first pharmacogenetic test to be approved by the FDA for use as a companion diagnostic to a specific drug therapy. The test is c...

Online Kiosks founder Mike Strand uses contest to screen new business plan

From bar codes to video screens, Eau Claire-based entrepreneur A former technology consultant for Delta Technology and Cray Research, Strand took a stride forward in 1988 when he founded , a company based out of his home dea...

Third Wave releases reagents for Hepatitis C testing

MADISON - The Hepatitis C virus is the leading cause of liver disease in the United States and affects 4 million Americans, leading to about 10,000 deaths annually, according to a co...

Rapid hit confirmation and early hERG liability testing using the IonWorks HT system

By James Costantin, Ph.D., Yen-Wen Chen, Ph.D., Jinfang Liao, Ph.D., Jeff Quast, Andrew Wittel, Shawn Handran, Ph.D. and Naibo Yang, Ph.D. Molecular Devices Corporation...

Test More siRNAs for Less

No longer must you endure the high cost and long turn-around times required for chemically synthesized siRNA. The new siRNA Construction Kit (patent pending) saves you both time and money so now you can expand your capacity for large siRNA screening experiments. More genes or...

The Fastest, Simplest, and Most Effective Way to Remove DNA Contamination

Orders of magnitude better DNA removal than with wild type DNase I Perform DNA digestion and sample clean-up in just 20 minutes DNase treatment is the method of choice for...

Preparative SDS-PAGE Electrophoresis of a Recombinant Epstein-Barr Virus Encoded Protein and Its Application in Serodiagnostic Test Systems, Rev C

Udo Reischl and Christian Gerdes, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene,University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany Abstract Serodiagnosis of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is currently based on the detection of antibodies to distinct EBV antigens. In the past few years the specificity...

Bio-Plex Cytokine Immunoassays and ELISA: Comparison of Two Methodologies in Testing Samples From Asthmatic and Healthy Children, Rev A

and Aiguo Zhang, 1 Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Division of Paediatrics, Linkping University, Sweden, and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., 2000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, CA 94547 USA...

Protein Truncation Tests Using the DCode System

Helen Chun, Milhan Telatar and Richard A. GattiDepartment of Pathology, UCLA School of Medicine,Los Angeles, California Protein Truncation Testing (PTT) is a method used to screen large coding regions of DNA to detect translation termination mutations. The gene responsible for the autosomal...

384 Well Pipetting Precision and Accuracy Testing Using the Sciclone Advanced Liquid Handler

Caliper Life Sciences Inc, Applications Laboratory, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA Initially, work in 96 well microplates was commonly carried out using manual pipetting. As the demand for greater throughput of plate processing has grown, automated liquid handling has become a nece...

Testing Compressed Air Lines for Microbiological Contamination

RUDY PINA Manufacturers of medical devices who label their product as sterile may use compressed air in various applications. Applications include injection moldin...

Testing Compressed Air Lines for Microbiological Contamination

An air impaction microbial assessment of your airsupply may indicate you have unwanted inhabitantsin your compressed air system Rudy Pina INTRODUCTION Manufacturers of medical devices who label their product as sterile may use compressedair in vario...

Surgical products company wins Governor's Business Plan Contest

Vector Surgical, the winner in the life sciences category, be...

MailFoundry claims world's fastest anti-spam filter

The product, called the series 9100 anti-spam appliance, was unveiled at this week's Interop exhibit in Las Vegas. The series 9100 is designed to comba...

MATC student team wins cyber defense contest

A team of information technology students from has won first place in the first round of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, beating four teams from Minnesota, and later advanced to a Midwest regional compe...

UW tests adult stem cell role in regenerative heart care

The The school is among the first medical centers in the countr...

Third Wave seeks approval of Cystic Fibrosis test

The test product, which Third Wave calls InPlex, is a genotyping test to determine Cystic Fibrosi...

Web 2.0 will test your hype (and Star Wars) IQ

For those who are overly anxious, Cerad...

Business Plan Contest produces successful grads

But the real prize in this statewide contest is unofficial: The cha...

NE Wisconsin to hold business plan contest

The competition is open to any start-up business, or existing businesses that are changing direction...

Eau Claire business contest honors tech start ups

Winners in the micro business and emerging-growth categories, respectively, were STAGE5, LLC, an online application service provider of real estate ap...

Wisconsin students test well on ACT, but relatively few are ready for college rigors

, a major college preparedness test. With an average score of 22.2 on a 36-point scale, Wisconsin ranked second nationally among states that depend on the ACT, falling only one-tenth of one percent...

Pedlar the latest executive to leave Merge

The embattled medical imaging software developer, which does business as Merge Healthcare, has announced that it received "a written notification from counsel" to Brian E. Pedlar, its interim co-president and co-CEO, and president of Merge subsidiary <a href="http://ww...

Wisconsin firm leads testing of alerts by cell phone

A Wisconsin telecommunications company has been enlisted to take some of that apprehension away. To address conce...

Eau Claire business contest down to 7 applicants

From a total...

MatriLab wins Governor's Business Plan Contest

The company, which was honored during an awards ceremony during the , was one of 27 finalists that pre...

High schooler's concept wins Eau Claire business contest

The announced that Ryan Pederson, a senior a...

QBI's PreserveX product passes initial test

Kauten, CEO of , recently received good news from an initial screening of its PreserveX Polymeric Micelles, a core product. The screening, which employed UGT1A1, an enzyme that metab...