REAGECON LIFE SCIENCES SPOTLIGHT

Reagecon’s Life Sciences Division offers a dedicated portfolio of products and services, covering a range of top name brands of equipment, apparatus, consumables and chemicals. In this issue of Sound Science we are featuring some new and innovative PCR technologies including Thermal Cyclers and Accessories, Reagents, Pipettors and Pyrogen-Free Pipette Tips.

For More information on our Life Sciences Division, and to avail of a FREE customer seminar: “New Technologies for the Life Sciences Lab”, please call us on 061 472 6222 or email: lifesciences@reagecon.ie

The Techne TC-512
Gradient Thermal Cycler

Buy the Techne TC-512 for the same price as the TC-412 SAVE €2,963 For a limited period only* Enjoy all the superb advanced features and benefits of the Techne TC-512 Thermal Cycler for the same price as a Techne TC-412!

      -       Gradient facility with gradient calculator
      -       Touch screen control with a user friendly programming interface
      -       Sophisticated ‘gradient cycler’ with real time graphical display,               shows the sample temperature profile
      -       Excellent heating rate of 3.0ºC/sec
      -       PC control and networking option
      -       Four year warranty as standard

List Price: €8,033
March Special Offer Price: €5,070

** Offer applies to orders received by 31st March 2008

The unique ‘real-time’ graphical display shows the sample temperature profile while the program is running, including the upper and lower limits of the gradient. This pictorial, real-time representation means instant visualisation of your experiment’s status.

For more advice on the range of Techne products, speak to one of our Scientific Product Specialists today.

Thermal Cycler Accessories:

The following range of Microtubes, Microplates and Seals are available for the Techne Thermal Cycler Range

Thin Walled Microtubes These thin-walled microtubes provide superior performance. The lid opens easily without the use of tools, and forms an effective seal when closed to avoid evaporation. Available individually or in strips.	Individual Microtubes	Microtube Strips
Multi-well plates Techne’s multi-well plates are high quality, guaranteed RNase, DNase and pyrogen-free, and available with 96 or 384 wells. 96 well plates are available as flat-top non-skirted, half-skirted low profile and full-skirted low profile.	96-well plate flat top non-skirted	96-well plate half-skirted	96 well plate full skirted, low profile	384-Well microplate
Plate Sealing For sealing micro-plates, Techne offers a range of options including silicone mats, heat sealing foil and film and cap strips. Alternatively, the Heat Sealer allows 96 or 364-well plates to be sealed in seconds with aluminium backed plastic film or clear heat sealing film.	Silicone Mat	Heat Sealer

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Microzone

Introducing Microzone Reagents

Reagecon is delighted to introduce the Microzone range of reagents to the Irish Marketplace. Microzone specialises in products for molecular biology designed to simplify and optimise PCR based research, DNA fragment analysis, sequencing and mutation analysis. Microzone reagents enable the release, extraction, amplification, clean up, sequencing, size standards and quality assessment of DNA samples.

The product range includes:

      •      microLYSIS –DNA Release Regents
      •      DNAMITE – DNA Extraction Kits
      •      MegaMix – DNA Amplification Master Mixes
      •      OK! – Quality Testing Kits
      •      MicroCLEAN – DNA Clean Up Reagents
      •      BetterBase - DNA Sequencing Buffers
      •      microSTEP – DNA Size Standards
      •      Tough-Taq – Primer Extension and Building Blocks
      •      Buffers & Molecular Reagents

For more information on the full range of Microzone reagents, click here

microLYSIS

The microLYSIS release reagent is a rapid one tube, one reagent methods for lysing cells and releasing the DNA in most cell types – e.g. Bacteria and Yeast.


microLYSIS Prices:

2ML-250	5 x 1ml	€244
2ML-1000	20 x 1ml	€928
2ML-2500	50 x 1ml	€1,977

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microCLEAN

The MicroClean DNA clean-up reagent provides the easy way to clean up or concentrate your DNA (e.g. PCR fragments or probes). It can be used for all DNA, including PCR products.


microCLEAN Prices:

2MCL-5	5 x 1ml	€99
2MCL-10	10 x 1ml	€186
2MCL-50	50 x 1ml	€882

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Rainin Pipettes

Reagecon offers the full range of Rainin Pipettes, including the Multi-Lite™ Manual Multichannel Pipettes which incorporate the Litetouch Tip Ejection System (LTS). This system offers you the ultimate ease-of-use, consistent sample pick up and low-force tip ejection for improved pipetting convenience and comfort.



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Gilson Pipettes

The Gilson PIPETMAN

The Gilson PIPETMAN® is still the world's favourite pipette. Its renowned reliability, long life and robustness together with unrivalled accuracy and precision make it the pipette of choice for scientists worldwide.

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Neptune™ - Pyrogen Free Barrier Tips

The Neptune range of Pyrogen Free Barrier Tips from CLP are tested and certified to conform to five bio-load specifications:
      1.       No detectable nucleic acid contamination
      2.       No detectable PCR inhibitors
      3.       No detectable endonucleases
      4.       No detectable endotoxin
      5.       Pre-sterilized

S³ polymer virtually eliminates sample hold-up, providing the most accurate sample delivery possible. S³ technology is available only in Neptune brand
products from CLP. CLP's advanced production process produces the most consistent low retention plastics in the industry.



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Reagecon Pipette Calibration Services

Reagecon was the first company in Ireland to gain INAB Accreditation for Pipettes, and is the only company in Ireland accredited to provide pipette calibration on Customers’ sites, and for multi-channel pipettes.

Reagecon is the only company in Ireland to hold INAB accreditation for volume, weighing and temperature calibration. - Accredited Balance Calibration - Accredited Temperature Controlled Enclosures and Thermometer Calibration - Electrochemistry Instrument Calibration - Equipment and Instrument Qualification - Full range of complementary products and services

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Free Customer Seminars:
New Technologies for the Life Sciences Lab

Could your organisation benefit from an overview of the new technologies available from brand name vendors for the Life Sciences Lab? Reagecon has developed a 1-hour seminar which highlights the new technologies available for the progressive Life Sciences Lab, delivered by one of our Sector Specialists free of charge, at your premises. We have successfully delivered the seminar in small laboratories, and to audiences of over 75 people – it is simple to arrange.

To organize a seminar for your company, contact our Life Sciences Division on: lifesciences@reagecon.ie or Tel: 061 472 622 x 639.

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Arium Laboratory Water Systems


arium 613 Range

The arium RO613616 and RO613L Reverse Osmosis systems are designed to produce RO-water for general laboratory applications:
      -      Feed water for ultrapure water systems
      -      Rinsing glassware and laboratory vessels
      -      Feed water for humidifiers, autoclaves and glass washers

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Arium 611 Ultrapure Water Systems



The arium 611 is a Type 1 laboratory water purification system designed to meet the requirements of reagent grade water for routine analysis.

* Water exceeds ASTM, NCCLS, ISO and USP reagent water standards.

Advanced design features include:
-       Carbon resin technology
-       Four line alphanumeric display
-       Removable display and dispense element
-       Standby mode
-       Timed (volume) dispenser

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Arium water tower



The arium® water tower is a steel self supporting stand designed to incorporate an arium® 61316 reverse osmosis system, an arium® 611 ultrapure water system, a 30 liter pressurized tank and a TOC analyser in one laboratory working station.

The unique design of the tower only requires inlet connections to power, suitable water source and one discharge connection to the drain. No additional fittings or connections are required.

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