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18/08/2023

A decent result. Gluten free bagels

06/07/2023

Handle desalting columns with the convenient and easy LabRack.

LabRack for all CentriPure Gel Filtration Columns

06/07/2023

Did you know that we offer a complete range of chemicals and phosphoramidites for nucleic acid synthesis?

5% DCA in methylene chloride for Äkta oligopilot. Detritylization reagent for nucleic acid synthesis. Available in small volumes or bulk.

07/06/2023

Let's talk about molecular sieves.
No really - I mean it.
Yes, you might think they look kind of boring, sitting there, doing nothing, resembling stones or grains of sand...
..but a lot of molecular biology (I mean, A LOT) depends upon molecular sieves.
Let me explain why.
Moisture is poison when you are chemically synthesizing oligonucleotides - and oligos are at the core of so much molecular biolody.

Reagents for oligo synthesis need to be moisture-free, otherwise all kinds of bad stuff can happen - reduced reaction efficiency, unwanted side reactions, premature activation of reactive side groups on phosphoramidites.

In short, if you want purer, high-quality oligonucleotides, you need to maintain low moisture content during their chemical synthesis.

This is where molecular sieves come in.

However... molecular sieves are a bit of a pain to work with. They need to be cared for, prepared, stored correctly. You need to pre-condition and activate them before use (this involves baking them at high temperature).

If you need dry solvents, you need molecular sieves, but do you want to spend your time "baking sand" when you could be "making DNA?"
Of course not - and this is where EZ Dry moisture traps come in.

EZ Dry's consist of sachets of dry, pre-conditioned molecular sieves. You receive them, vacuum-packed, ready to use. Just open the pack, drop them in your solvent, where they will adsorb moisture, allowing you to make oligos. They come in different pack sizes, depending on solvent volume, covering most working volumes found in oligo synthesis labs.

01/06/2023

Automated workflow in the lab facilitates large scale use of quantitative DBS and remote sampling. Capitainer recently launched a fully automated quantitative DBS sample handling system that enables large-scale screening and diagnostics using the company’s dried blood spot self-sampling devices. The new system, PA496, reduces the number of manual steps required when preparing Capitainer samples for analysis, thus saving valuable time and personnel resources. The first PA496 unit has already been installed in the Affinity Proteomics-Stockholm Unit at SciLifeLab, a leading Swedish research centre.

Learn more about the system and the possibilities for the lab in our new blog post.
https://capitainer.se/large-scale-dried-blood-spot-testing-possible-with-capitainers-automated-quantitative-dbs-sample-handling-system/

01/06/2023

Our supplier Canvax Reagents can deliver all your buffer requirements - even GMP

27/03/2023

This is a shout out to all the bioprocess engineers out there. Did you know that it's possible to Clarify and Capture in a single step?
Find out how, here: https://www.youdobio.com/smart/

13/06/2022

26/05/2022

A great video explaining SMART Chromatography™

23/02/2021

You don't have to do this to get a good quality sample for COVID-19 testing.

Just use saliva. There are good, dare I say awesome, saliva collection kits that have been proven to work in COVID-19 testing.

Aarhus Universitetshospital er i gang med at afprøve en hjemmetest for coronavirus. Man håber at have vurderet testens pålidelighed inden for fire uger, fortæller overlæge.

23/02/2021

Dear Denmark, saliva is an unbeatable way to collect samples for COVID-19 screening. I recommend you read this:
Astra Zeneca published a study on their efforts to test their employees for COVID-19.
The introduction of saliva instead of swabs is described as "transformative."
They switched from swabs to saliva because swabs "proved to be uncomfortable and unpopular, leading to lower adoption than required."
Following the introduction of saliva testing, adoption by employees increased approximately 4-fold.
(of course I'm biased - I sell GeneFix Saliva collection kits - but that's because they work)
Article can be downloaded here:

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-246781/v1/1b42cfd8-dfa5-453c-b6ec-5ab1673a0c61.pdf

05/02/2021

https://www.youdobio.com/self-collected-saliva-protecting-everyone-in-the-covid-19-test-chain-at-lower-cost/

The demand for COVID-19 testing is unprecedented and will remain so for some time. In Denmark, for instance, by December 17, 2020, over seven million tests had been performed for coronavirus, around 124,000 of which tested positive.1 In the United States, over 260 million COVID-19 tests have been do...