Molecular Biology Certified™ LB Lennox Agar medium is one of the most widely used medium for the growth of bacteria. MP Biomedicals offers LB media in an encapsulated format for convenience and ease of use. It is a rich Medium for the growth of E. coli and certified for plasmid and…

Sodium chloride is a commonly used chemical which is found widely in nature. It is considered to be an essential nutrient. Excess amounts of sodium chloride can destroy electrolyte balance and cause death in most animals, including humans. Sodium chloride is used in a wide variety of biochemical…

Ammonium Molybdate Tetrahydrate is an analgesic.

Used to suppress immune response in vivo and in vitro.

Anhydrous Calcium Chloride is highly hygroscopic and is often used as a desiccant. Calcium plays important roles in many biological processes, including signal transduction, muscle contraction, maintenance of cell membranes and cell wall stability. Calcium chloride is a soluble compound that can…

Alginic acid sodium salt has been used in the flocculation of solids in water treatment; as sizing agent; thickener; emulsion stabilizer; and a suspending agent. It is used in the preparation of colloidal biodegradable structures such as gels, biofilms, beads, nanoparticles, and microcapsules…

Calcium chloride is useful in preparing competent bacteria. Calcium chloride dihydrate was used in the preparation of calcium-alginate beads. It was used to compose the medium for Thermophilic Clostridia (MTC). It may be used for the concentration of virus vectors in a protocol.

Potassium acetate is used as a buffer in molecular biology research, notably in the isolation of DNA. Potassium acetate may be utilized in the isolation of RNA intermediates and products from in vitro splicing reactions performed with HeLa cell nuclear extract. Potassium acetate has been used to…

Alanine is a nonessential amino acid that plays a key role in the glucose-alanine cycle between muscle tissue and the liver. In amino acid-degrading tissues such as muscle, amino groups are pooled as glutamate by transamination reactions. Used as an amino donor in conversion of…

L-Cysteine hydrochloride monohydrate (LCHCMH) is a water soluble salt of the non-essential amino acid, L-cysteine. Widely employed in the medicine industry Thermodynamic features of a solution of LCHCMH in water have been reported NMDA glutamatergic receptor antagonist L-Cysteine…

Lithium Bromide

Cellulose is an organic compound, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand β(1→4) linked D-glucose units. Cellulose is used as bulking agent, opacifier, anti-caking agent, extrusion aid and stabilizer for foams and emulsions. High purity…

Synonyms: EDTA disodium salt, (Ethylenedinitrilo)-Tetraacetic Acid disodium salt, Cheladrate, Chelaplex III, Chelaton III, Complexon III, d'E.D.T.A. Disodique, Disodium diacid ethylenediaminetetraacetate, Disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate dihydrate, EDTA-Na₂, Edathamil, Edetate…

Glycine is a non-essential amino acid. It is the only amino acid with no asymmetric carbon and thus is not chiral. It is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter. It is involved in the biosynthesis of the porphyrin rings of hemes and chlorophylls. Glycine is commonly used in buffer solutions, in…

Sodium acetate is the sodium salt of acetic acid. Sodium acetate is used as a buffer in the buffering range of pH 3.6-5.6. It is also used in the purification and precipitation of nucleic acids, protein crystallization, Staining of gels in protein gel electrophoresis, HPLC, mordant dyeing, DNA…

Sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous is a sodium salt of phosphoric acid. It is a white powder that is highly hygroscopic and water soluble. Sodium phosphate dibasic has been used for preparing phosphate buffer which in turn is utilized in X-gal staining. Sodium phosphate dibasic is an…

Potassium phosphate is a reagent with high buffering capacity. It occurs in several forms: monobasic, dibasic and tribasic. Most pH neutral potassium phosphate buffer solutions consist of mixtures of the monobasic and dibasic forms to varying degrees, depending on the desired pH. Potassium…

Sucrose is a simple carbohydrate. A disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose, which is used for a variety of applications. It is isolated from cane sugar; it is not synthetic. Sucrose can be used to prepare density gradients for cell/organelle separation. The refractive index of the…

MP offers this grade of albumin as a more highly purified product than our traditional True Cohn Fraction V Powder. Due to lower manufacturing costs, this grade is available at a substantial savings relative to our True Cohn Fraction V Powder. Albumin is general blocking reagent in ELISA, as a…

* Strong chaotropic agent useful for the denaturation and subsequent refolding of proteins * Used in the isolation of RNA * Solubilizes insoluble or denatured proteins such as inclusion bodies * Can be used for the recovery of periplasmic proteins

L-Tryptophan is an amino acid precursor of serotonin and melatonin.

Tris have been useful as buffers in a wide variety of biological systems. It has been used as a starting material for polymers, oxazolones (with carboxylic acids) and oxazolidines (with aldehydes). It does not precipitate calcium salts and is of value in maintaining solubility of manganese salts.…

L-histidine is an essential amino acid with a basic side chain, and is hydrophilic in character. It contains an imidazole group in the side chain. Histidine is biosynthesized from ATP, 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate (PRPP), and glutamine. In turn, histidine is degraded to glutamate by histidase,…

Trichloroacetic acid is an acetic acid analogue commonly used to precipitate proteins, DNA and RNA. In the presence of SDS Trichloroacetic acid will precipitate proteins which can then be quantified by the Lowry method. The compound has also found uses as a decalcifier and fixative in microscopy,…

Tris have been useful as buffers in a wide variety of biological systems. It has been used as a starting material for polymers, oxazolones (with carboxylic acids) and oxazolidines (with aldehydes). It does not precipitate calcium salts and is of value in maintaining solubility of manganese salts.…

Sodium metasilicate nonahydrate is white powder, mainly used in detergent/washing industry, metal cleaner and ceramic industry. In detergent/washing industry, it can be used instead of Sodium triphosphate to raise cleaning efficiency and reduce enviroment pollution, provide excellent alkaline…

Prior to lyophilization, the product is filtered through a 0.2 µm filter. Albumin is used to solubilize lipids, and is also used as a blocking agent in Western blots or ELISA applications. Globulin free albumins are suitable for use in applications where no other proteins should be present…

Yeast extract powder is a vacuum dried autolyzed yeast extract produced from 100% Baker's yeast. It is a concentrated source of soluble protein components, carbohydrates, and B Complex vitamins natural to yeast. Yeast extract is used as a bacteriological media component for a variety of…

Sodium Acetate is used as a buffer in the buffering range of pH 3.6-5.6.

Cholesterol is the principal sterol of the higher animals, found in all body tissues. It is the main constituent of gallstones and all biological membranes. Approximately 25% of total brain lipid is cholesterol. Cholesterol, followed by the chemical suffix -ol for an alcohol, is an organic chemical…

MP EcoChrom™ Alumina B, Activity I are good "all-round" adsorbents for laboratory use as well as for industrial use. They can be adjusted to lower activity by the addition of polar media, preferably water, but also higher alcohols, e.g. glycol or glycerol can be used. An oxide of…