Sigma-Aldrich Introduces 96-Well Plasmid Purification Kit That Produces Industry’s Highest Viral Titers

GenElute(TM) HP 96-Well Plasmid Miniprep Kit provides rapid generation of transfection-grade plasmid from bacterial cultures

ST. LOUIS, June 24 — Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL – News) today announced the launch of its GenElute(TM) HP 96-Well Plasmid Miniprep Kit for DNA purification. The new 96-well kit is suitable for a variety of pharmaceutical and biotechnology research applications, providing rapid purification of plasmid DNA that can generate best-in-class transfection-grade plasmid with the highest viral titers on the market.

Designed to complement Sigma-Aldrich’s MISSION® shRNA product line, the GenElute HP 96-Well Plasmid Miniprep Kit is optimized for demanding downstream transfection protocols. GenElute purified plasmid DNA is suitable for a wide variety of molecular biology applications, including cloning, restriction digestion, in-vitro transcription and translation, and sequencing.

Utilizing the GenElute HP 96-Well Plasmid Miniprep Kit, up to 10 micrograms of high-copy plasmid DNA can be recovered per well from 1.3mL of harvested bacterial culture in less than 50 minutes. The competitively-priced kit is compatible with automated liquid handling workstations and offers a vacuum manifold-based manual protocol.

“With the GenElute HP 96-Well Plasmid Miniprep Kit, our customers will be able to generate the highest viral titer transfection-grade plasmid DNA in a simple, reproducible manner,” said Tim Fleming, Director of Global Commercial Marketing for Life Science at Sigma-Aldrich. “This kit extends our GenElute HP product line into the high-throughput plasmid purification market and allows our customers to significantly increase their productivity.”

To learn more about the GenElute HP 96-Well Plasmid Miniprep Kit and Sigma-Aldrich’s best-in-class GenElute HP product line, visit sigma.com/96well.

About Sigma-Aldrich: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Its biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high technology manufacturing. The Company has customers in life science companies, university and government institutions, hospitals, and in industry. Over one million scientists and technologists use its products. Sigma-Aldrich operates in 36 countries and has 7,900 employees providing excellent service worldwide. Sigma-Aldrich is committed to Accelerating Customer Success through Leadership in Life Science, High Technology and Service. For more information about Sigma-Aldrich, please visit its award-winning Web site at http://www.sigma-aldrich.com.

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