Year-end message from Allele Biotech

The year 2011 has been an exciting and eventful year for many people. Throughout the year, we have been working diligently to bring the best research methods in many areas to our fellow researchers through innovation and entrepreneurship. Thanks in part to the government’s stimulus and grant support in 2011, we established several new product lines, including the Stealth iPS induction mRNA templates and reagents, a great new photoconvertible fluorescent protein in mClavGR2 (through collaboration with academic colleagues), and a highly efficient lentivirus-based shRNA packaging service as a result of an NCI SBIR contract.

As you all must have noticed by now, in July we redesigned our website to present our products in an easier, more user friendly manner, while adding a convenient online purchasing system. We have received a lot of positive feedback from customers telling us how “cool” the new site is, and how easy it is to use and redeem promotions. Towards the end of the year, our dedicated marketing and sales teams reinstated our biweekly email newsletters (to receive our messages on new discoveries and technologies, or be the first to use our promotions, sign up online under “Newsletter”).

All of these efforts would have been meaningless without our customers, who ultimately gave us the opportunity to be in the business we love and are trained to do. By selecting our products, sending us feedback, and “retweeting” or “reposting” our messages, you have been tremendously valuable to every one of us here at Allele. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. In return, we will continue to invest and do our very best to provide new tools for advancing your research. Watch for our brand new monomeric fluorescent protein that can be nearly 10 times brighter than EGFP; a more powerful iPSC generation method that could potentially reprogram in just a few days, and much much more in 2012!

Tags: 2012, EGFP, iPS, iPSC, mRNA templates, NCI SBIR, new fluorescent proteins, reposting, retweeting

Lentivirus-lanYFP Give Away

Promotion of the week 03-22-10 to 03-28-10: To help researchers get familiar with pre-packaged lentivirus, we offer free high titer lentivirus carrying a truly bright and fast maturing lanYFP (lancelet FP, new exclusively from Allele).  Infect virtually any mammalian cells by a single manipulation (pipeting) and watch cells turn green/yellow in about a day under microscope or on FACS.  Primarily a yellow FP, lanYFP will show brighter fluorescence than EGFP even when observed using standard GFP/FITC filter set.

New product of the week 03-22-10 to 03-28-10: anti-mTFP1/mWasabi polyclonal antibodies.  It is tailored-made for Alleleustrious mTFP1 and mWasabi, the brightest teal and green FPs.

Tags: EGFP, Fluorescent proteins, GFP, Lancelet, lentivirus, mTFP1, mWasabi, pre-validated virus, YFP