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Molecular Devices provides a full line of imaging products to support your high-content analysis needs. Whether you are working with stem cells or seeking to observe the gene silencing effects of RNAi, the ImageXpress® Micro System helps you decipher the complex cellular and molecular events that underlie cell division and differentiation or changes in morphology, development and behaviour in your sample. This High-Content Screening microscope can therefore be an invaluable tool for pinpointing mechanisms of action in the research or treatment of cancer, neurological disorders, viral infection, hemophilia, and premature aging. Regardless of resolution, and thanks to its laser auto focusing capabilities, brightfield imaging option and environmentally controlled chamber, the ImageXpress® Micro Widefield Imaging System easily enables users to measure parameters such as cell cycle and apoptosis, the formation of micronuclei, neurite outgrowth, angiogenesis, intracellular translocation or endocytosis. For each assay, biological phenotypes can be automatically identified, segmented, and analyzed using a validated software module to generate accurate results for rapid screening.
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Sigma-Aldrich is a global supplier of leading RNA interference (RNAi) tools including siRNA and the comprehensive MISSION™ shRNA library through participation in The RNAi Consortium (TRC). As a key licensed supplier of siRNA and expert in high quality custom DNA and RNA oligonucleotide synthesis, our goal is to provide innovative products to meet your functional genomics and gene silencing research needs. The MISSION shRNA library of The RNAi Consortium, developed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is a pre-cloned collection targeted against annotated human and mouse genes enabling scientists to elucidate gene function. For further details of the above products please visit www.sigma-aldrich.com/rnai.
Our biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high technology manufacturing. We have customers in life science companies, university and government institutions, hospitals and in industry. Over one million scientists and technologists use our products. Sigma-Aldrich operates in 35 countries and has over 6,800 employees providing excellent service worldwide. We are committed to accelerating Customers’ success through leadership in Life Science, High Technology and Service.
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Thermo Scientific is the world's leading brand of innovative Dharmacon RNA interference research products. We supply the highest quality custom RNA oligonucleotides and siRNA, as well as siRNA transfection reagents and innovative ready-to-use SMARTvector™ Lentiviral shRNA Particles. Thermo Scientific offers guaranteed pre-designed Dharmacon siRNA reagents targeting all unique human, mouse, and rat genes in the NCBI RefSeq database. These genome-wide reagents include the market-leading ON-TARGETplus™ siRNA, proven to reduce off-targets by up to 90%. In addition to our groundbreaking research tools, we now provide RNAi library screening and microRNA expression analysis services.
ABgene ® – now sold as Thermo Scientific - manufactures and develops high-performance QPCR reagents and amplification plastics that facilitate reproducible, sensitive and accurate quantization of all nucleic acid targets. Through constant customer feedback and an innovative approach to product development, Thermo Scientific has developed a portfolio of industry-leading products.
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Cenix BioScience GmbH is a contract research organization (CRO) specialized in combining advanced applications of RNAi with high content phenotypic analyses. In meanwhile over 11 years, Cenix has built up a dominant track record in this field, successfully advancing therapeutic programs for numerous major industry and academic partners by providing fully customized, cutting-edge research offerings covering a wide range of disease fields including oncology, cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological and infectious diseases. The well-established core capabilities in high throughput siRNA screening and multi-parametric microscopy assays have yielded optimized protocols in a broad and ever-growing collection of cultured cell models, and are now complemented by miRNA screening, and in vivo RNAi applications using synthetic siRNAs. As such, Cenix is a mature and fully proven industrial research provider, applying the highest of scientific best practices and offering a breadth and depth of specialist expertise second to none worldwide. For more details, visit http://www.cenix-bioscience.com.
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Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. In addition to publishing over 4,600 new books each year. Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press, publishes well over 220 journals, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations
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RXi Pharmaceuticals is a leader in Next Generation RNA targeting, including its proprietary rxRNA™ discovery platform and delivery technologies, for the treatment of human diseases. RXi is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of proprietary therapeutics based on RNA interference (RNAi). RXi Pharmaceuticals believes it is well positioned to compete successfully in the RNAi therapeutics market with its strong technology platform, broad and early intellectual property position, a management team that is experienced in commercializing products, and accomplished scientific advisors, including Dr. Craig Mello, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for his co-discovery of RNAi.
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