Biodegradable transfection reagents now available through e-commerce site

PHILADELPHIA – Techulon Inc., an early stage life sciences company has joined KFP—the KeraFAST Partner Program, adding its innovative new transfection reagent, Glycofect™, to KeraFAST’s portfolio of research products for the cell biologist. The agreement was announced during the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. Glycofect is a polymeric transfection reagent designed to be particularly effective in primary cells of therapeutic interest. It is being used worldwide by government, university and corporate laboratories for advanced research towards better understanding of cell biology and for development of new cell-based therapeutics.

We are delighted that Techulon has become part of our KFP Program. Techulon’s novel and proprietary Glycofect biodegradable transfection reagent is a remarkable new DNA carrier that elicits low cytotoxic response coupled with high delivery efficiency and transgene expression. Because of these features, Glycofect has proven to be a superior reagent especially for primary cell transfection as compared to other lipid- and polycation-based products,” said Bob Bondaryk, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer at KeraFAST. “Glycofect is a strong addition to our family of products.”

Through its KFP program, KeraFAST partners with leading-edge companies to offer their innovative new research products and services through the convenience of the KeraFAST e-commerce site. The KFP Program provides greater visibility for the Partner’s own brand name while leveraging the easy-to-use, one-stop shopping life science tool online capability KeraFAST provides.

“We are very pleased to have KeraFAST as a partner. Through KeraFAST our customers will now be able to conveniently purchase Glycofect on a single purchase order with their other laboratory needs,” said Frank Akers, President of Techulon. “Having KeraFAST as a channel partner allows us to focus on the continued expansion of our reagent delivery platform to support DNA, RNA and oligo-based cell research and therapeutics.”

About Techulon

Techulon, Inc. is a life sciences company based in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, with a core capability in novel biodegradable and low toxicity DNA and RNA delivery reagents for cell-based research and therapeutics. For more information please visit the company website at www.techulon.com.

About KeraFAST

KeraFAST, a division of KeraNetics, LLC, is a life science research products company, offers a wide range of innovative tools and solutions for biomedical research, enabling scientists to access the latest developments from the laboratory and the highest quality products.

Additional details about KeraFAST available at https://www.kerafast.com.