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Email from your thermocycler: Mastercycler nexus

The Mastercycler nexus sends an Email informing about its status. Via software control, the user can retrieve a booking schedule for the instrument more

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News biology

• analytica presents biotechnology highlights

  From molecular-biology techniques to forensic DNA analysis: from April 17 – 20 analytica features in-depth information about the latest methods and techniques in laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology. One of the five halls, hall A3, is devoted entirely to the biotech industry. The topic more

• Dunn Labortechnik celebrates its 30th anniversary

  In 1982 the company Dunn Labortechnik was founded in Asbach (Germany) by Hannelore and Peter Dunn. Since then, the company has supplied research and routine laboratories with equipment, disposables as well as immunoreagents, plasma and sera and has evolved from a nationally to an internationally ope more

• Corning Acquires Mediatech, Inc.

  Corning Incorporated announced that it has completed the acquisition of Mediatech, Inc. , a Virginia-based corporation, including Mediatech's subsidiary, KD Medical, Inc., a Maryland-based corporation. Mediatech is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Corning and will be integrated into Corning's Life S more

White papers biology

• Efficient Transfection of Primary Human Skeletal Myoblasts Using FuGENE® HD Transfection Reagent
  

  Transfection of cells is one of the main techniques used to influence gene expression. Most primary cells and human skeletal myoblasts (SkMC) in particular are very difficult to transfect, whereas for cell lines such as C2C12, many suitable transfection reagents and protocols are available. Few publications report successful transfection of human primary myoblasts using non-viral systems [1,2,3]. These methods include cationic lipids such as phosphono­lipids, electroporation, and a combination of liposome and adenoviral associated proteins. But transfection efficiency is low and often is a compromise between toxicity of the reagents and transfection efficiency. more

• High Pure PCR Cleanup Micro Kit - Novel Flexibility for Nucleic Acid Purification
  

  Manual nucleic acid isolation with High Pure products is long approved by the scientific community. The product portfolio includes kits for isolation of genomic RNA and DNA, plasmid DNA as well as purification of reaction products. Key goal for all products is to offer optimal solutions suited for many different sample materials in order to reduce the number of different nucleic acid isolation kits necessary in modern molecular biology labs. more

• Genotypes in Smokers: Correlations with Smoking Behavior
  

  Smoking behavior is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Moreover, smoking initiation and smoking persistence have a heritability of at least 50%. A large body of work has been dedicated to associating multiple genetic markers of neurobiological pathways previously linked to addiction and smoking such as the central dopaminergic, serotoninergic, and nicotinergic pathways with different aspects of smoking behavior. In order to investigate the feasability of future genetic analyses, we genotyped 14 SNPs in 288 samples of addicted smokers using the LightCycler® 480 System with HybProbe assays. more

Job offers biology

• Inside Sales Representatives (f/m)
  

  STEMCELL Technologies Inc is a privately-owned biotechnology company that helps power leading-edge life sciences research around the world. Scientists performing stem cell, immunology, cancer, regenerative medicine and cellular therapy research are among those who rely on our cell culture media, cel more

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