Gel Electrophoresis
Company Announcements
Life Therapeutics spun out its LifeGels division, a manufacturer of electrophoresis gels, and Life Bioprocess division into a new company, NuSep, in late 2006. The divisions’ 2006 sales rose 95% to $793,000. Nu Sep is expected to list on the Australian stock exchange in late March.
Under a partnership for sales, marketing and distribution, CLC bio, a developer of DNA and protein sequence analysis software, will sell and market Kapelan’s LabImage 1D 2006 gel analysis software.
Product Introductions
Media Cybernetics released the Gel-Pro Analyzers 6.0 gel analysis software.
Hoefer, a Harvard Bioscience company, introduced the ULTima imaging platform for gel documentation, consisting of four models.
Invitrogen introduced E-Gel CloneWell SYBR gels for improved cloning efficiency.
Scie-Plan launched the HU15 standardized gel electrophoresis unit for separations of up to 150 samples.
SoftGenetics released jelMarker for the conversion of slab gel files into a standard format for importing into GeneMarker software.
Syngene introduced the Dyversity 4 automated multifunctional image analyzer for 1D and 2D gels.
Cleaver Scientific released the OmniPAGE mini vertical gel electrophoresis unit for protein PAGE separations and electroblotting applications.