Distributed in the UK by Cambio, Xenometrix products include advanced Ames mutagenicity assays and cytotoxicity screening kits.
These have been specially designed to reduce the amount of test compounds and consumables used.
The Xenometrix Ames II and Ames MPF micro-fluctuation assays require a lower amount of sample and simplify handling compared with the traditional Ames test, as they use liquid culture instead of agar plates.
Also available from Cambio, the new Ames MPF 98/100 Aqua detects the mutagenic potential of non-concentrated water samples, enabling the use of 18.5 times more sample volume than with the conventional Ames MPF 98/100 kit.
Applications include testing sterile aqueous solutions, fresh water, wastewater, aqueous extracts and leachates, aqueous solutions of chemicals and chemical mixtures.
Other Xenometrix products introduced by Cambio include a micro-format kit for the analysis of potentially genotoxic compounds in the environment, based on the umuC SOS response.
Following the initial overnight cultivation of bacteria, umuC kits deliver results in as little as six hours.
