Geno Technology Inc. of St. Louis announces the release of GeneCAPSULE, a new, single-use device for rapid DNA extraction from gels. Using electroelution and requiring no additional equipment, the new product takes as little as 90 seconds to recover DNA in amounts ranging from 10 to 30 ml, and less than 60 seconds to recover 1,000 bp, according to the company. The recovered DNA is ready for ligation, restriction-enzyme digestion, sequencing, amplification, random priming, nick translation, and other enzymatic reactions. GeneCAPSULE is supplied as a 54-unit kit.
Houston-based Biotecx Laboratories Inc. has introduced IMMULAN immune column separation kits for T cells and T-cell subpopulations. The kits facilitate affinity chromatography separation and selection of rat, mouse, human, cat, dog, and monkey T cells derived from peripheral blood, lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, and other tissues. Through selective chemical elimination, users can separate CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in high yield. The purity ...
