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:
Lyophilization, also known as freeze-drying, is in simple terms a water-removal process that increases product stability and preserves its functionality. Our new SolisFAST® Lyo-Ready qPCR Kit with UNG represents an optimized lyophilization-compatible qPCR solution to enhance the simplicity, convenience, and speed of diagnostic and applied testing.
The running joke with PCR is that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. Quite often it’s even impossible to determine why some samples turned out fine while the others did not. In a situation like this, it would be amazing to know some trick or a secret to avoid spending all the time and resources to do the experiment again. Here are a few we are willing to share so that you could find love for PCR.
In research, every day different methods are used to discover something new, whether it is a new disease, medicine, or something else. Often these methods were developed long ago and are confirmed to be doing what they are supposed to do. However, as technology develops so do new methods. This is exactly what Professor Steven Williams’ lab is doing at Smith College – developing new methods to be used in research and diagnostics.
As an alternative to PCR, the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) reaction has been developed for DNA detection. The LAMP test is fast, simple, and sensitive.