Antibody Marketplace – Life Research

Images developed using Neuromics markers and published online in Stem Cells Jun 21, 2007

Neuromics has the “pedal to the metal’ to expand their product range in 2010 with Stem Cell Reagents representing one of their fastest growing product categories. Their products include Stem Cell Antibodies and Markers for Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs), Neural Stem Cells (NSCs), Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs), Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) and Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs).

Life Research Introduces Industry Veteran to Drive Business Forward

Santosh Nambiar joins Life Research as General Manager with over 20 years experience in leading life sciences businesses in the Southeast Asian region. After spending a decade in the regional offices of Roche and Invitrogen he moved to Biolab, the Australian market leader in life sciences research supplies (now a Thermo Fisher business), where he received several awards and in particular built their Southern New Zealand office from scratch. Most recently Santosh was the director at Lonza India & ME where he was responsible for developing sales and marketing strategies to achieve profitable growth objectives. Santosh’s business experience is supported by a Masters in Biotechnology and a MBA.

We look forward to seeing Life Research move to it’s next stage of growth under Santosh’s leadership.

ProSci Swine H1N1 Antibodies

Influenza A virus includes many variants, classified in part by their display of the surface glycoproteins hemagglutinin (e.g. H1-16) and neuraminidase (e.g. N1-9). Subtype H1N1 has been the most common cause of influenza in humans. In 2009, the World Health Organization proclaimed a new strain of H1N1, endemic in pigs, to be responsible for a human pandemic and thus called “swine flu.”

Supplier ProSci offers numerous polyclonal antibodies to Influenza A H1N1 strains associated with “swine” influenza as well as “seasonal” influenza. Antibodies are available with specificity to either swine-origin or seasonal H1N1 surface glycoproteins Neuraminidase and Hemagglutinin, or which are reactive with either strain. ProSci’s Swine-Origin and Seasonal Flu H1N1 Protein Detection Set includes antibodies to various different epitopes from the HA and NA proteins. Applications for each antibody may include ELISA and/or Western Blot; see individual product descriptions.

Click here to see Life Research’s antibody products for H1N1

Above: ELISA results using Swine H1N1 Neuraminidase antibody at 1 μg/ml and the blocking and corresponding peptides at 50, 10, 2 and 0 ng/ml.