Superparamagnetic beads are designed specifically as a powerful magnetic platform for bioscience and diagnostic applications, acting as a superior solid phase in manual and automated bioassays
Polymer Laboratories announces the launch of a range of high performance, yet economic, particles for biomagnetic separations in bioscience applications.
LodeStars are described as highest quality, superparamagnetic beads designed specifically as a powerful magnetic platform for bioscience and diagnostic applications.
PL's patented technology and proprietary manufacturing practises have created copolymer microparticles with a microcrystalline ferric oxide component uniformly dispersed throughout the bead.
The beads move rapidly in an applied magnetic field but, as no permanent magnetism is induced, the LodeStars fully disperse once the field is removed.
LodeStars are designed as a superior solid phase in manual and automated bioassay and for the isolation and manipulation of targets in biological samples, eg cells, proteins, nucleic acids and other molecules.
Specific biomolecules, such as antibodies, Streptavidin, lectins, DNA binding proteins, are coupled to the bead's surface.
In bioassays, this determines which analyte is measured and, in isolations, which component of a complex biological mixture will be separated.
LodeStars have applications across wide areas of research, diagnostics and therapeutics as well as the development of new products in molecular medicine.
