Sustainable solutions are not just an option, it's a necessity. We are glad to announce that we are moving gradually to more sustainable solutions for us, for you, and for the environment. We care about your time and resources, so we will pre-pack our kits and have multipacks available for your favorite products. All info can be found on the bag and as always, our catalogue product range is stable at room temperature for 30 days, which makes product shipping and handling convenient. Our products will be surrounded by sustainable packaging and reducing waste every step. Check out the changes in detail and let us know if you have any questions or comments!
For some time, we have tried to find a good solution for packaging our reagents more sustainably. Plastic bags, which we are using at the moment, are not optimal from the material side but compared to cardboard boxes they use up minimal cargo space in the airplane, keeping the CO2 footprint smaller this way. Cardboard boxes used in biotech are usually also laminated to tolerate the freeze-thaw cycles and humidity that come with it. We found a solution through ISCC- certification possibility.
Instead of current transparent kit bags, we will be using ISCC certified bags, made from 85% bio-based materials (mass balance).
The bags will have product info indicated clearly on them - so no need to peek through the plastic bag to see what's inside. The sticker will have the product name, catalog number, lot number, size, and storage info. Additionally, we will include a QR code that will direct you to the product documentation page that includes the Data Sheet, Certificate of Analysis, and Material Safety Data Sheet.
Our standard products will be pre-packed to streamline the work of our logistics department and bring products to your benchtop even faster. Unfortunately, pre-packing allows less flexibility - it will be harder to exclude a component/components of the kit, which some of you may have appreciated in the past.
Enzyme kit formats are unified for all users (including FIREPol® DNA Polymerase, HOT FIREPol® DNA Polymerase, TERMIPol® DNA Polymerase, and HOT TERMIPol® DNA Polymerase)
So far, the enzyme kits for end-users have been slightly different from the kits to distributors. For example, if end-user ordered 2 x 500 U of FIREPol® DNA Polymerase kit, they received buffers aliquoted as 1 x 5 ml per buffer, distributors have received the buffer aliquoted as 2 x 2,5 ml. In the future standard will be 2 x 2,5 ml. Smaller aliquotes are also more convenient as they thaw faster and the risk of contamination is lower.
The exact volumes for each kit component you can find on our webpage or product datasheets already now.
To keep the packaging more sustainable we will offer multipacks for our most popular products (less packaging material and less space in cargo). If the product you are ordering has a multipack option, your Account Manager will let you know and ask if the switch would be ok with you. At first, we plan to offer our most popular products in 5-pack and 10-pack respectively:
To advance innovation in synthetic biology we decided to help young and talented scientists from Lund University with their Methane RemOOver project. Their goal is the reduction of methane emissions from cows using a synthetically engineered microorganism. With this idea, they also participated in iGEM competition.
This year the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, two scientists credited with discovering microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Now, 30 years after their finding, you can do microRNA experiments with ease by using our products designed to make discovering new things simple and hassle-free.
This summer we got to collaborate with a fun project organized by the MINT Campus in Germany. Not only does MINT campus inspire children and young people about these topics but it also introduces young people to sustainable, innovative developments in current research and technology.
Whether you are studying the genetic material of plants, brains or viruses, the experiment usually starts with extracting RNA from the sample material. It would be incredibly useful to get all the RNA extracted instead of it getting destroyed by the RNases before even starting the cDNA synthesis step. But how can we protect the RNA when RNases are all around us? Let’s find out!
