Product Review

This edition covers items for DNA amplification, such as an RT-PCR system, a sequence detection system, a DNA decontamination kit, DNA isolation and concentration tools, and items for maintaining clean PCR work areas.

Isothermal titration calorimetry is a useful tool for the characterization of antibodies and antibody-related products, which uses heat as a detection medium, circumventing the problems associated with other analytical methods.

Cell biologists gather for an annual international meeting in San Francisco this week and items on display may include a non-radioactive assay for cell proliferation, a personal confocal microscopy system or a mammalian expression system.

This week Product Review covers items such as reagents for cell detachment and tissue dissociation, reverse transcription and liposomal transfection, as well as custom-synthesized oligonucleotide tubes and microplates.

Various new systems and reagents for neuroscientific study are featured this week, including a new drug delivery system for therapeutic agents, a receptor available for drug screening programmes and a vibrating ion probe system.

This section is an inventory of monoclonal antibodies and other new tools available for immunology, including a DAB system for immunoblotting, an HPLC system that monitors IgG glycosylation and the v-Ha-ras(TG.AG) transgenic mouse.

Techniques and technology for the molecular biologist — prepoured, polyacrylamide gels for DNA sequencing, a universal support for DNA synthesis, a baculovirus expression system, a telomerase detection kit and cDNA synthesis kits.

This installment looks at equipment such as dispersion technology for particle size measurement, a homologous time-resolved assay system for drug discovery, a carbon fibre potentiostat and a robotic perfusion system.

Featured this week, a pot-pourri of useful equipment and reagents for biomedical research, including a mycoplasma removal agent, antibodies for apoptosis research, a biomedical imager and an oligonucleotide labelling kit.

Time once again to contact your software providers who are peddling such wares as a searchable chemical database, an Internet search engine, chemometrics software and virus protection software for networks.

Today's special — product review offers problem solving software, information about nanotechnology funding, a diode-pumped solid-state laser and circuit simulation software.

Making a splash this week — halogen heater moisture analysers, a new sequential ICP atomic emission spectrometer and a chemical reaction search system.

This week's tender covers DNA technology, including a kit for DNA analysis using high-resolution gel electrophoresis, a hybridization and detection system, primer design software and a purification kit for high-molecular-weight genomic DNA.

This issue covers the reagents and equipment necessary for cellular and molecular imaging and detection, including a luminometer, a phosphor imaging system, reagents to detect intracellular cytokines and alternatives to radiolabelling.

The use of a thermally activated DNA polymerase PCR gives improved specificity, sensitivity and product yield without additives or extra process steps.

Product review has the goods and wares for studying the molecular mechanisms of the cell — items include an automated membrane developing system, a mutation detection system and high-efficiency cloning kits.