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Abnova is the world’s largest monoclonal antibody manufacturer with a capacity for generating 500 mouse monoclonal antibodies per month.

Abnova takes a genomic/proteomic approach towards antibody development, their goal being to have at least one antibody to every gene expressed in the human genome. In most cases, multiple clones are available for monoclonal antibodies.

All recombinant proteins and antibodies are produced ‘in house’ in a state-of-the-art facility in Taiwan.

Alomone Labs Ltd is a privately owned biotechnology company, founded in 1989 and is based in Jerusalem, Israel.

Alomone specialises in supplying innovative biochemical’s and molecular tools for the neuroscience research community. Alomone Labs is committed to supplying products immediately upon demand and to providing the technical support services required by customers.

AN DER GRUB Bio Research GmbH is recognized worldwide as a leading expert in the field of intracellular flow cytometry and through their pioneering efforts they designed and developed the pre-eminent reagent in cell fixation and permeabilization (FIX&PERM®).

FIX&PERM® allows for mild fixation and permeabilization of cells while leaving their morphological scatter characteristics intact enabling today's researcher to accurately identify previously undetectable intracellular markers.

Together with FIX&PERM®, An Der Grub also offer a selective panel of antibody conjugates for the analysis of intracellular human leukocyte antigens (COMBI-IC, SINGLE-IC) and selected antibodies for studies of human leukocyte surface molecules (SURFACE Antibodies). Plus, ADG-Lyse; an ideal reagent for whole blood staining of human surface antigens.

An Der Grub reagents continue to benchmark the field with high quality and consistent products, which are used in leading laboratories worldwide.

Arcus Biologicals is a life science company providing a wide range of great value Cytokine ELISA kits for your research. ELISA kits available in addition to the regular ELISA include the Ready ELISA (all components are freeze dried onto a plate) and the Ultra Sensititivty ELISA.

Bio-Nobile Oy specializes in solutions for sample purification based on its proprietary PickPen® magnetic solid-phase processing technology. Bio-Nobile products give clear advantages in a wide range of applications, such as nucleic acid purification for screening of gene expression, protein purification/fractionation and multiplexing applications.

As a leading provider of magnetic particle technology Bio-Nobile supplies a wide range of QuickPick™ reagents ranging from off the shelf purification kits to customized magnetic particle reagents. To provide complete solutions for genomic DNA, plant DNA, DNA fragment, total RNA, mRNA and histidine-tagged protein applications, MagRo workstations come with pre-programmed protocols for QuickPick reagents.

BioPorto Diagnostics A/S (formerly Antibody Shop) is an expanding biotechnology company located in Gentofte (Copenhagen), Denmark. The company is focused on developing a unique portfolio of diagnostic tests for the critically ill patient.

Diagnostic tests launched to date are:

• NGAL ELISA Kit – early marker for renal injury
• MBL ELISA Kit – immature or suppressed adaptive immune system
• Properdin ELISA – bacterial meningitis and meningococcal infection
• Gc Globulin ELISA – acute liver failure and chronic liver disease

The company also manufactures a wide range of antibodies under the Antibody shop brand name for research use covering the fields of coagulation, cell biology, complement, cytokines, hormones, enzymes, cell surface markers and other blood proteins.

Based in San Francisco, California, Caltag was formed in 1985 to take advantage of the extensive experience of the founders in the immunological reagents field.

This experience spans the period from the 1960’s to the present, and encompasses nearly all the significant advances in antibody technology during that period.

Caltag manufactures reagents for multi colour analysis by flow cytometry. Today Caltag is one of the principal international suppliers of flow cytometry antibodies, conjugates and reagents.

Recent advances have seen the introduction of:

• CE marked antibodies for clinical diagnostic use in Europe
• Alexa FluorTM primary antibody conjugates
• Caltag Counting Beads for absolute cell counting
• Fetal haemoglobin quantitation by flow cytometry.

Cybrdi is a primary provider of tissue array products. They have established a comprehensive and integrated system to collect various normal and diseased human tissues and to manufacture hundreds of tissue microarrays.

By offering various high-quality tissue arrays in a format of single, paired, combined and multiple panels, Cybrdi enables scientists to identify, verify and validate molecules of diagnostic and therapeutic importance. Together with DNA (gene) array technique, tissue microarray technology is a powerful tool for the rapid analysis of molecular targets, discovery and assessment of new therapeutics, and determining prognosis of a disease.

Geneaid Biotech Ltd. offer a wide range of genetic research products developed specifically for nucleic acid purification from tissue, blood/cultured cells, plants, microbes and viruses. Their simple, user friendly product protocols are designed to ensure high-yield results in less time than competitors, with up to 95% recovery rates and minimal DNA/RNA contamination.

Since Geneaid was founded in 2002, they have expanded their product offering to include MagBead Genomic/Viral Extraction Kits, High-throughput DNA and PCR products, Genomic DNA Reagent Kits, and Nucleic Acid Isolation Reagent (for total DNA/RNA isolation). Their experienced team of scientists continue to produce innovative products allowing Geneaid to offer the best tools for gene research now and in the future.

IMMUNOSTEP was founded in Spain in 2001 in partnership with the University of Salamanca and is housed in the Institute for Cancer Research, adjoining the University of Salamanca.

IMMUNOSTEPs inception arose with a view to offering a new and proactive approach in searching for solutions to the treatment of cancer. Currently, Immunostep hold a wide range of antibodies for use in research and diagnosis in flow cytometry applications.

MBL was established in 1969 in Japan, and concentrated on the development and production of immunological diagnostic reagents, especially for collagen diseases and autoimmune diseases.

In 1993, MBL International was established in Massachusetts, USA. MBL International manufactures and sells over 2,300 types of antibodies, kits and reagents. Much of the focus is in the areas of Apoptosis, Signal Transduction, Cell Proliferation and Heat Shock Proteins, plus many other areas of cell biology.

Monosan was established in 1978 as a subsidiary of Sanbio B.V. and is based in Uden, Holland.

The antibodies supplied by Monosan are both developed internally and in collaboration with some of the leading universities and research institutes throughout Europe. Today Monosan has a large and diverse product portfolio of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. All of their products have been extensively tested for use in the research applications for which they are recommended.

Panomics is located in Freemont, California, and is focused on delivering innovative solutions to facilitate the understanding of biological pathways and networks.

Panomics products are novel reagents for:

• Cellular Delivery
• Gene Modulation
• Gene Expression
• Protein Expression
• Live Cell Assays

ProSpec-Tany TechnoGene Ltd. is experienced in the production of E.coli-derived recombinant human cytokines, growth factors, monoclonal anti-cytokine and chemokine antibodies.

ProSpec-Tany has a reputation for quality. Product purity is guaranteed to be greater than 99% as determined by analysis by; analytical RP-HPLC, reducing and non-reducing silver-stained SDS-PAGE and anion-exchange FPLC. All batches being strictly tested to meet the tough requirements of clinical grade Bio-Pharmaceutical companies.

Realgene Bio-Technologies, Inc., is located in Shanghai, China, and specialises in the provision of bio-technical services including gene synthesis, peptide synthesis and gene sequencing.

Realgene also supply a wide range of molecular biology reagents including Pfu enzyme, Hotstart Taq polymerase, and dNTPs..

Signalway Antibody Co., Ltd, manufacture phospho-specific antibodies. Annually, they develop more than 400 new antibodies for specific protein/peptide targets. Their products are widely used in scientific research, clinical diagnosis, new drug design and screening.

Signalway currently have over 650 different phospho-specific antibody products covering 18 different signaling pathways. Adopting double peptide affinity column purification, they manufacture all the products ‘in house’ and provide high quality products with complete detection datasheets.

Based in Korea, Superbiochips brought the first commercial tissue array slide to market.

Tissue array slides contain many samples from conventional histological paraffin blocks, allowing tissues from multiple patients to be analysed simultaneously. Tissue array slides can be used for high throughput screening by immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization or FISH. Samples on the tissue array slides have a large core size, are of high quality with a long shelf life and are available from a wide variety of tissues.

TCS Cellworks Ltd; a Buckingham, UK based company, provides primary cells from humans & other species, cell extracts, growth media, human skin, angiogenesis and blood/brain barrier models, plus a wide range of cell based contract screening & other services.

Primary cells offered include: early passage endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, keratinocytes, hepatocytes, microsomes and many other varieties from a wide range of anatomical sites and types of donors.

TCS Cellworks has also recently added the novel HEPArg® cell line (expressing all known CYPs perfectly profiled for fully functional toxicity testing), the Princess range of ready to use plate based assays for proliferation, cytotoxicity and inflammation studies and the ScreenReady primary cell plates for ADMET studies & discovery research to it's product portfolio.

UK Bio is a UK based company, specializing in the provision of FlowPlex kits for Multi–Analyte Quantitation on Flow Cytometers. FlowPlex kits allow the measurement of up to 20 human or mouse and 6 rat analytes. Visit the FlowPlex Product summary page for further information.

Technical Experts at UK Bio offer free demonstrations of human and mouse FlowPlex kits on your flow cytometer. Call 0800 279 9113 or +44 (0) 12896 715459 to request a demonstration.