Life Technologies now offers MagMAX™ FFPE Isolation Kits — two new magnetic bead-based kits designed specifically for the isolation of both total RNA and DNA from Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) samples. MagMAX™ FFPE Isolation kits help scientists get to discovery – faster and safer than ever before.

What’s unique about the MagMAX™ FFPE kits is that they offer the yield, purity and downstream performance characteristics that scientists expect, while also delivering faster workflow protocols, higher throughput capacity, and eliminating user-exposure to toxic organic solvents typically associated with the FFPE purification process.

To enhance user productivity, MagMAX™ FFPE Kits incorporate magnetic bead-based technology, yielding a workflow amenable to high throughput processing. Offered in a 96-well format, MagMAX™ FFPE Kits enable an automated-assist protocol, which can effectively reduce hands-on processing time by 50 percent or more. By substituting xylene-like solvents with a novel solubilization reagent, MagMAX™ FFPE kits combine protease enzymes and digestion additives. This combo-reagent allows users to eliminate the deparafinization step of the protocol, and the associated toxicity associated with traditional FFPE processing.

Innovations delivering faster, easier and safer purification of FFPE support a long-term trend of increased use of tissue samples archived in FFPE by molecular scientists for research. New tools like MagMAXFFPE™ kits allow researchers to more efficiently access and analyze the large volume of clinically-annotated FFPE samples that are growing more central, to cancer/disease research, biomarker discovery, and personalized medicine.