Sigma-Aldrich has unveiled a Sigma Life Science brand and website platform, designed to provide a single destination where researchers can access biological knowledge and products and technologies.
The introduction of Sigma Life Science's 'Where Bio Begins' brand provides researchers with robust technologies and biologically focused products to help them explore, study and understand life.
The Sigma Life Science mission is expected to enable researchers to unravel the complex biomolecular interactions within cells, tissues, organs and organisms.
The new brand and website are intended to generate awareness of Sigma Life Science's strengths in providing products and technologies that facilitate scientists' understanding of how diseases develop and how molecules function.
Sigma Life Science offers: a custom oligonucleotide service supplying customers with DNA and RNA and, in many regions, same-day custom DNA synthesis; monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies including prestige antibodies powered by Atlas Antibodies; and bioactive small molecules, peptides and proteins for cell biology and neuroscience research, including GPCR and ion channel ligands, novel kinase inhibitors and cell-cycle regulators, the LOPAC library of pharmacologically active compounds and key signal transduction enzymes featuring Precisio kinases.
The company also provides gene silencing products, Mission siRNAs and a large set of validated lentivirus-based Mission shRNA clones; the CompoZr zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) gene-editing technology, which allows researchers to insert, delete or edit any region of the genome of a living cell or organism; Sage Labs, a knockout rat program designed to develop rodent models of human disease powered by the CompoZr ZFN technology; sets of reagents for regenerative medicine, including the Stemgent reprogramming kit to develop induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, leveraging the Sigma Life Science lentivirus delivery expertise; Hystem, a fully customisable synthetic extracellular matrix (ECM) to optimise stem-cell proliferation and differentiation; and a complete portfolio of ZFN reagents, antibodies and shRNA/siRNAs for stem-cell research.
All of these technologies are accessible through the 'Your Favorite Gene' search engine powered by Ingenuity, a web-based biological search tool that delivers gene-based content to model and evaluate experiments in the context of previously published scientific literature.
To support the 'Where Bio Begins' launch, eight information portals have been specifically tailored to serve the biology community.
Themed around the company's core biological capabilities in targeted genome editing (bioediting), transgenics (Sage Labs), functional genomics (biosilencing), stem-cell research and epigenetics (bioreprogramming), molecular biology (biomapping), biomolecules, oligonucleotides/custom products (bionucleics), customer education and training programmes (biouniversity) and bioinformatic resources ('Your Favorite Gene'), these sites can be accessed via the new platform.
The Sigma Life Science blog serves as a resource for new techniques, improvements to old techniques, new applications and information about scientists from the biological community.
