Life Science Product News

The USDA FSIS approved Bio-Rad’s iQ-Check^® real-time PCR method for the detection of six newly regulated Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains in beef, which the FSIS began testing for in June 2012.

The CFX qualification plate is preloaded with an optimized master mix, providing a fast, easy, and accurate method for obtaining pass/fail instrument performance results for all CFX real-time PCR systems.

Designed and validated for detecting up to five targets in reaction volumes between 10 and 125 µl, the CFX96 Touch Deep Well system offers precise quantification and excellent uniformity with high thermal performance.

This annual award honors the company that has demonstrated excellence in growing market share at the fastest rate in its industry, as measured by revenues or units sold.

Researchers will discuss the many ways they are using Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.‘s QX100 Droplet Digital PCR system to achieve their research goals at the 2nd QX100 User Group Meeting to be held Dec. 6–7, 2012 in Boston.

Bio-Rad introduces two new 96-well Hard-Shell plates for PCR and real-time PCR. The Hard-Shell low-profile semi-skirted PCR plate is compatible with multiple instruments including the Applied Biosystems 7500 Fast and ViiA 7 real-time PCR systems. The Hard-Shell 96-well 480 PCR plate is designed specifically for the Roche LightCycler 480 system.

Researchers reported at the 2012 ASMS annual conference that Bio-Rad’s TGX Stain-Free gels enable higher throughput in GeLC-MS analysis. The results showed that the stain-free approach reduces sample preparation time without sacrificing the quality of mass spectrometric results.

The QX100™ Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR™) system enables researchers at Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. to accurately detect rare mutations in HIV+ patients. The highly precise and reproducible data obtained with the QX100 system puts the company one step closer to identifying a functional cure for HIV.

Scientists at Flinders University in Bedford Park, Australia recently demonstrated the superiority of a method employing Bio-Rad’s stain-free technology to use total protein as a loading control in semiquantitative western blotting.

The QX100™ Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR™) system has demonstrated superior performance over existing methods for key research applications and is emerging as a platform for next-generation sequencing validation. The diverse applications of ddPCR technology will be explored at the first Digital PCR Conference in San Diego, CA, Oct. 15–16, 2012.