Animals and Related Products
Isolated Heart Systems Guide
May 1, 2013 1:42 pm | Product Releases | CommentsHugo Sachs Elektronik, a Harvard Apparatus Company, announced its new Isolated Heart Perfusion Systems Guide featuring the Biventricular Working Heart System—a turnkey isolated heart system.
LISTED UNDER: Physiological Research Equipment
Corrosion-resistant Surgical Kits
April 22, 2013 1:48 pm | Product Releases | CommentsHarvard Apparatus has introduced 10 new German-made surgical kits. These kits are designed for use with mice, rats, guinea pigs and larger subjects, for applications including isolated heart, isolated organ, microsurgery, microdialysis, major surgery and minor surgery.
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Video Tracking System
March 22, 2013 1:52 pm | Product Releases | CommentsCoulbourn Instruments launched the SMART 3.0 Advanced Video Tracking System for researchers. Applications include standard tracking and spontaneous activity (distance, speed, time, entries in zones, mobility, low/high activity etc.).
LISTED UNDER: Diagnostic and Monitoring EquipmentFrance pins horsemeat fraud on wholesaler
February 14, 2013 12:35 pm | by JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsThe price, smell and color should have been clear tipoffs something was wrong with shipments of horsemeat that were fraudulently labeled as beef, French authorities said Thursday. The economy minister pinned the bulk of the blame on a French wholesaler at the heart of the growing scandal in...
LISTED UNDER: OthersTransgenic Mouse Generates Human Single Domain Antibody VH Fragments
January 16, 2013 2:39 pm | Product Releases | CommentsCrescendo Biologics announces the Crescendo Mouse using antibody fragment technology that allows the efficient generation of high-quality fully human single domain antibody VH fragments from a transgenic mouse. VH fragments are next-generation antibody-based therapeutic proteins that have applications beyond the scope of full length antibodies.
Knock-in Rats Created Using Zinc Finger Nuclease Technology
December 14, 2010 6:35 am | Product Releases | CommentsSigma Life Science, the biological products and services business of Sigma-Aldrich, announced that its SAGE Labs initiative has successfully used its proprietary CompoZr Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) technology to generate knock-in rats in which foreign genes have been inserted, or ‘knocked-in’, into the rat genome in a precisely targeted manner.
Triple Knockout Mouse
September 29, 2010 6:43 am | Product Releases | CommentsCrescendo Biologics has established a colony of engineered mice completely devoid of endogenous antibody polypeptides. The proprietary ‘triple knockout’ mice are believed to be unique and have the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH), kappa light chain and lambda light chain loci all functionally silenced by large-scale genomic deletion.
