Merck Biosciences
Research reagents used for life science research
Merck Biosciences provides a broad range of innovative research products used worldwide in disease-related life science research at universities as well as in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The company is part of the Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Life Science and Analytics (LSA) division and operates as Merck Biosciences outside North America and EMD Biosciences, Inc. in North America. Globally, Merck Biosciences is known in the scientific community through its Calbiochem®, Novabiochem®, and Novagen® product brands. To customers worldwide, the LSA division provides a unique combination of products and services, from initial research to market launch through process development, clinical trials and production. Novagen was founded in Madison, Wisconsin, USA in 1989 by Dr. Robert Mierendorf, who currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of EMD Biosciences, Inc. Today, Novagen is a brand of EMD Biosciences and offers an extensive product line consisting of innovative, convenient reagents and kits for the isolation, expression, analysis and purification of genes and proteins.
Postfach 1167
65812 Bad Soden
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)6196–63955
or
10394 Pacific Center Court
San Diego, CA 92121
USA
Phone: +1-858-450-9600
Web: www.embbiosciences.com
The ProteoPlex™ 16-Well Human Cytokine Array Kit is designed for multiplex detection and measurement of 12 important human cytokines in parallel from up to 15 samples. The combination of advanced surface chemistry, well-characterised capture agents, and a highly-sensitive fluores-cence-based detection system in a convenient, complete kit format provides a robust method for comparing relative cytokine abun-dance or cytokine quantification in serum samples or cell supernatants.
Pro- and anti- inflammatory cytokines measured in the kit are important for the study of immune system regulation and diseases such as asthma and arthritis. Each well on the slide contains a microarray of antibodies with four replicate “spots” for each cytokine plus spots for controls. The simple protocol is similar to the protocols used for decades in single-analyte immunoassay systems.
The 16-well slide format and SensiLight™ fluorescent detection system are compatible with a broad range of microarray scanners.