EMD Millipore introduces new kit
December 09, 2010 | Thursday | News
EMD Millipore, the life
sciences division of Merck of Germany, has introduced a rapid kit for
bisulfite conversion, which is a critical first step in mapping the
differences in genomic DNA methylation patterns. Aberrant DNA
methylation can result in inappropriate activation or silencing of
specific genes, and is associated with errors in embryonic development
as well as the onset of diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, and other
diseases.
The new CpGenome Turbo kit reliably converts unmethylated cytosines to
uracil in 90 minutes, which is twice as fast as commonly used bisulfite
kits and reagents. By increasing throughput of bisulfite modification,
CpGenome Turbo kit allows researchers to examine DNA from more samples
in less time.
GE Healthcare launches ÄKTA
avant 150
GE Healthcare, a global
biosupplier company, has launched ÄKTA avant 150, the second
system in the new generation of ÄKTA liquid chromatography
systems. ÄKTA avant 150 complements the ÄKTA avant 25 system
to fully exploit the advantages of modern bioprocess media, enabling
smooth development of scalable chromatographic processes for biopharma
production.
With flow rates up to 150 ml/min, the ÄKTA avant 150 is designed
for process development and scale up. The UNICORN 6.1 control software
enables seamless method transfer between ÄKTA avant 25 and
ÄKTA avant 150. UNICORN 6.1 also comes with integrated Design of
Experiments (DoE) functionality that provides time and cost savings, by
capturing the information required for decision making in fewer
experiments.
Agilent upgrades bioinformatics
software
Agilent Technologies has introduced GeneSpring GX 11.5, an expansion of
its popular bioinformatics software into visualizing and analyzing
multiple types of biological data. GeneSpring GX 11.5 interprets exon
microarray, proteomics and metabolomics experiments together for the
first time, using a familiar interface. These new capabilities join
existing GeneSpring GX applications for gene expression analysis,
genomic copy number analysis, genome-wide association analysis and
transcriptomics data analysis.
