Biomatrica Newsletter

Featured Product

DNAstable Liquid

A liquid format version of Biomatrica's popular DNA stabilization product - DNAstable - is now available for purchase. This liquid format fits within high throughput sample handling and automated workflow and protocol requiring continuous use of sample tubes or plates for storage. In the liquid format, DNAstable (liquid) can be added to purified gDNA samples stored in tubes or plates within a workflow, and then dried down (Speedvac or laminar flow-hood) in the same plates or tubes for optimal long-term storage. This product is available for purchase in three size formats - 2ml, 10ml and 50ml. For more information about this product, please contact Biomatrica at contact@biomatrica.com or call 1-866-379-6879.

Trial Samples

Biomatrica offers FREE trial samples for DNAstable, DNAgard, RNAstable, Clonestable, PCRboost, STRboost and SampleWare. To receive any of these products, please complete and submit the request form.

Biomatrica in the news

The company had several exciting news announcements in the first quarter of 2010.

New corporate partnership program - Biomatrica Connect ^TM

Biomatrica now has a strategic partnership program with industry and academia to provide a robust set of room temperature biospecimen storage products and services in order to meet our growing market segments. This new program - Biomatrica Connect^TM - has a current membership list of academic and automation store providers (see below). More information about the program is available at the link here.

The current members are:

Professor Angela van Daal - Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia,

Professor Peter Bilous - Eastern Washington University, WA, USA,

BioStorage Technologies, Indiana, IN, USA, and

Matrical Biosciences, Spokane, WA, USA, and

Nexus Biosystems, San Diego, CA, USA.

This program was launched recently and a press release issued.

New technology partners

Biomatrica has formed several partnerships and alliances with industry technology providers to provide a global solution in the area of biospecimen storage and automation to biobanking repositories. These are (a) BioStorage Technologies, (b) Matrical Biosciences, and (c) Nexus Biosystems. A recent press release was issued announcing the partnership with BioStorage Technologies. More announcements are forthcoming.

Symposiums featuring Biomatrica technologies

Two symposia featuring Biomatrica technologies were conducted at Stanford University and UC San Diego. More information about these events can be accessed here:

Stanford School of Medicine Seminar on room temperature sample storage, at the Clark Auditorium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

UC San Diego Workshop on room temperature storage of biological materials, at the Center for Molecular Genetics, UCSD, La Jolla, CA.

Workshop

Biomatrica's President, CSO and co-Founder, Dr Rolf Muller will be presenting a paper on Biomatrica technologies at the first North American QIAGEN Technology Workshop for Biospecimen Collection and Biobanking in Oncology, taking place at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Hotel, Chicago, IL, June 9th, 2010.

Biomatrica product webinars

Biomatrica organizes regular webinars on our technologies and products. To sign-up for any of these webinars please visit our webinar link here.

Biomatrica in the Forensic community

A dedicate page has been created for researchers in the forensic science community. The page includes information on forensic scientists evaluation and validation of Biomatrica technologies, as well as links to literature publications, posters and application notes. To access the link, please click here.

Article/News item featuring Biomatrica

Biomatrica's CEO, Dr Judy Muller-Cohn, was featured in an article published in "The Scientist", titled "Dry out, put away" which described the impetus for the creation of Biomatrica.

New distributors

Biomatrica recently entered into new distribution partnerships with several vendors:

Micronic NA (US, Canada and South America)

Cultek S.L.U. (Spain)

Genozon (China).

These agreements add to the network of Biomatrica distributors and further expands global access to Biomatrica's technologies. For a detailed listing of all Biomatrica distribution partners, please visit our distributor site.