SPOTLIGHT
Cancer Markers
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As a leader in monoclonal antibody production, Serotec Inc. has the capacity to produce in bulk quantities—and sell at bulk prices. Custom services include conjugations, monoclonal antibody culture from hybridomas, and cryopreservation, all with the ISO 9001:2000 stamp of approval. Offered markers include Her-2/neu, EGF-R, GST, MCM5, MPO, prolactin, estrogen receptor beta, cyclin D1, p53, and more.
Serotec Inc.
www.serotec.com
Serine Protease Inhibitor
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Aprotinin pentapharm is ideally suited for protein isolation and biopharmaceutical downstream purification. It inhibits undesired activity of serine proteases and is useful in immunodiffusion, radioimmunoassay, ELISAs, and assays for coagulation factors and their inhibitors. Safety documentation is available on request. Manufactured by Pentapharm Ltd., the product is not for therapeutic use.
Centerchem Inc.
www.centerchem.com
Animal Blood and Serum
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Quad Five has supplied the culture-media, diagnostics, and vaccine industries with donor animal blood and serum for 17 years. The company’s 4500 donor livestock serve as the foundation, offering the best in traceability, consistency, and performance. Products include sheep, horse, cattle, and goat serum in 500-ml and 3-L bulk packaging. Whole-blood products are defibrinated, citrated in alsevers, laked, lysed, and washed RBCs from the four species. The company also offers a full line of nondonor species, including newborn calf, porcine, chicken, and fetal bovine serum.
Quad Five
www.quadfive.com
Heterophilic Blocking Reagent
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The most commonly reported effect of heterophilic antibody assay interference is the false-positive assay result. Heterophilic blocking reagent (HBR) in liquid or coated-tube (HBT) form is a powerful, clinically proven reagent that has inactivated heterophilic antibodies for more than 10 years in plasma or serum. Protect your lab and patients with HBR.
Scantibodies Laboratory Inc.
www.scantibodies.com
Cell Culture Bag
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The Lampire cell culture bag is made from a proprietary material that exhibits excellent gas permeability and requires only a standard CO2 incubator. It is a simple, efficient, and cost-effective alternative to roller bottles and flasks, and a cost-effective alternative to other cell culture bags.
Lampire Biological Laboratories Inc.
www.lampire.com
Serum Substitute
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SeraSub is a synthetic matrix used as a substitute for HSA or BSA in the manufacture of standards, reagents, and controls. SeraSub contains no biological material, has no lot-to-lot variation, and possesses the same osmolality and pH as serum. The product can be stored at room temperature.
CST Technologies Inc.
www.cstti.com
Diagnostic Antibody Production
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Capralogics Inc. provides large-scale, high-quality animal plasma and serum for diagnostics applications. The company offers the country’s first USDA-certified scrapie-free goat flock dedicated for large-volume antibody production. Serum is collected and processed in a state-of-the-art GLP- and EC1774/2002-compliant blood-collection facility.
Capralogics Inc.
www.capralogics.com
Antibodies
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Maine Biotechnology Services Inc. is offering three new products, including MAB900P, an antibody against prion protein that has proven successful in bovine samples and under evaluation for chronic wasting disease. In addition, MAB902P and MAB907P antibodies are beta amyloid and preferentially bind to the oligomeric structures commonly seen in Alzheimer’s disease, making them unique.
Maine Biotechnology Services Inc.
www.mainebiotechnology.com
Australian-Sourced Bovine Albumin
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Now Celliance Corp. offers Probumin Plus, a bovine albumin product considered low risk because it is from BSE-free Australia and has all the benefits of the company’s premium bovine albumin grades. Probumin Plus is the high-quality, low-risk alternative and it’s as close as Celliance, the world’s largest bovine albumin supplier.
Celliance Corp.
www.celliancecorp.com
Diagnostic Microparticles
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Seradyn Inc.’s Particle Technology division manufactures magnetic, polystyrene, carboxylate-modified, and dyed microparticles that are used in a wide variety of diagnostic assays, research reagents, and molecular biology applications. The magnetic particles are particularly useful for automated heterogeneous immunoassays and sample preparation applications such as plasmid DNA, genomic DNA, mRNA, protein, and cell isolations.
Seradyn Inc.
www.seradyn.com
Antigens and Antibodies
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ViroStat Inc. is a primary manufacturer of infectious-disease antigens and antibodies, supplying researchers and manufacturers since 1985. Specialties include high-affinity antibodies to Flu A, Flu B, RSV, and Strep A for use in rapid lateral-flow devices as well as antibodies to food-borne pathogens and toxins. The company also handles many specificities to HCV, HBV, CMV, and EBV for use in antiviral HTS assays.
ViroStat Inc.
www.virostat-inc.com
Fine Biochemicals
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Amresco Inc. sells high-purity biochemicals to the life sciences industry for diagnostics manufacturing, cell culture, fermentation, molecular diagnostics, and histology. The company offers biochemicals, dyes and stains, enzymes, substrates, reagents, and services such as tableting, pouching, aseptic filling, and animal-free processing tailored to the needs of diagnostics, biotechnology, and research companies.
Amresco Inc.
www.amresco-inc.com
Antiserum Production
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The reputation of Midland BioProduct Corp. as a producer and manufacturer of quality products for the human and animal health markets has led to the offering of complementary contract antiserum production and contract assay development programs. The USDA-licensed and NIH-approved animal facilities are managed by our staff veterinarian and house approximately 700 goats.
Midland BioProducts Corp.
www.midlandbio.com
Bovine Serum Albumins
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MP Biomedicals offers an extensive line of bovine serum albumins. Each grade is fully characterized so that a user can select the albumin best suited for the application. Each BSA grade is available in package sizes ranging form gram to kilogram quantities in order to support projects from the R&D phase through full-scale manufacturing.
MP Biomedicals
www.mpbio.com
Monoclonal Antibodies
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QED Bioscience Inc. is the original manufacturer of hundreds of monoclonal antibodies for targets of IVD assays, including therapeutic drugs, infectious-disease agents, coagulation factors, serum proteins, hormones, enzymes, and DNA. The company also offers custom antibody services including hybridoma development, hybridoma optimization, and in vivo and in vitro production to client specifications.
QED Bioscience Inc.
www.qedbio.com
Reagents
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Chemicon International Inc. supplies immunological reagents to the biomedical research community, providing quality products and services to the research, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical communities. Chemicon offers an extensive line of both antibody- and molecular-based (SimulFluor, OligoDetect, and Amplifluor ID) assays for common classes of viral infectious agents.
Chemicon International Inc.
www.chemicon.com
Critical Immunoassay Components
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The 1-µm Dynabeads attract major interest from IVD manufacturers. Products offered include uniform magnetic beads with carboxylic acid surface functionality, tosylactivated beads, and two types of beads precoupled with streptavidin. All Dynabeads have a low sedimentation rate and high magnetic mobility for use with automated separation protocols.
Invitrogen Corp.
www.invitrogen.com/dynal
