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Features New Products PTFE Plate-Sealing Tape with Pattern Adhesive


Sarstedt introduces a premium PTFE 96-well plate sealing tape with pattern adhesive suitable for many applications including PCR, qPCR, auto-sampling, and storage. PTFE offers superior chemical compatibility and is optically clear with virtually no autofluores- cence. Adhesive is applied in a patented pattern that provides adhesive-free target areas that won’t clog auto-samplers. Te adhesive is tinted red to aid in proper alignment on well rims for secure sealing. Te PTFE tape is easily punctured with as little as 0.5 lb force with no coring or tearing. Sarstedt’s PTFE tapes with pattern adhesive have a wide temperature usage range of -80°C – 120°C and are RNase- and DNase-free. Please contact Sarstedt for more information and a free sample. Sarstedt, Inc., www.sarstedt.com


Motorized Stage Systems


ASI’s precision stages are designed to provide a high-resolution and highly repeatable means of controlling the X, Y, and Z position. Te stages utilize crossed-roller bearing, high-precision lead screws, and zero-backlash closed- loop DC servomotors with built in rotary encoders that provide resolu- tions of 100 nm and repeatability < 700 nm rms. Also available are XY stages with integrated piezo Z top plates offering 150 to 500 microns travel with nanometer resolution and repeatability,


plus specialty stages for stand-alone, OEM, and custom systems. Applied Scientific Instrumentation, Inc., www.asiimaging.com


Sample Preparation System


Te MonoLyser from RotaPrep is designed for the grinding, homog- enization, and lysis of the most difficult-to-lyse samples. Te system allows researchers to perform quantitative lysis for the best quality DNA, RNA, and protein extractions out of a variety of samples such as gram positive microbes, spores, seeds, plants, animal and human tissues, bones, teeth, feces, forensics, soils and sediments, and others. Typical lysis time for processing sample to quanti- tative lysate is 5 seconds or less. Tis hand-held system, processes samples in a standard 2-mL screw- capped disposable tube and is equally suitable for use in the laboratory or in a field setting. RotaPrep, Inc., www.rotaprep.com


Index to Advertisers


Abcam* | 304 BD Biosciences | 290, 306, 329 Bibby Scientific Ltd | 313 Bioo Scientific | 326 Bio-Rad Laboratories | 285 BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH | 291 BioTek | 300, 308 BrandTech | 289 EMD Serono Inc | 298 EMD Millipore | 294


Eppendorf North America | 339 Indiana U. Biotechnology Program | 343 Life Technologies | Cover 2 Lonza | 288


Melles Griot Light Systems | 331 New England Biolabs | 332 Origene | 325 Panasonic | 286 Promega | 302, 310, Cover 4 R&D Systems | 292


Roche Diagnostics Corporation* | 316, 335


Roche Diagnostics GmbH** | 335 Streck | 323


TIB Molbiol GmbH | 341


*North American Edition **European/Rest of World Edition


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