Products in the News

The company had several exciting new products in the second half of 2011.

DNAstable® Blood 96-well plate

We recently announced the availability of our long-term blood stabilization reagent – DNAstable Blood – in a new 96 well plate format. In this format, up to 25µl of whole blood or buffy coat samples can be safely preserved for more than 12 years at ambient temperature. Recovery is about 1µg. Compared with traditional cellulose-based cards, DNA recovery from DNAstable Blood are 2.5X to 20X higher with more intact, high molecular weight, non-degraded DNA per well/tube.

For more information about this product, please visit the link at: http://www.biomatrica.com/dnastableblood_products.php

DNAstable® Validation Kit

Biomatrica launched a new forensic validation kit for DNA storage and preservation. The kit is designed to enable the DNA section of a forensic laboratory to quickly and easily validate the long-term storage of DNA extracts at room temperature in Biomatrica’s DNAstable. The kit and protocols meet the standard validation requirements established by the Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods(SWGDAM) and by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Quality Assurance Standards (FBI/QAS) for forensic DNA testing.

See http://www.biomatrica.com/solutions_forensics.php for additional information.

DNAstable® 96 tube plates (Matrix)

DNAstable is now available in either a 2D or alphanumeric 96-tube plate Matrix (ThermoFisher). These tubes come in 0.5ml (2D) or 0.75ml (alphanumeric) sizes and offer same level of storage and preservation efficiencies as the traditional microfuge tubes.
For more information, please check out this link

New Products in 2012

Below is a snapshot of several new products scheduled for release in 2012.

DNAgard® Blood Tube

Biomatrica will introduce a tube option of our blood DNA stabilization – DNAgard Blood Tube (RUO). These tubes now offer direct preservation of DNA in whole blood from collection site. Using basic venal puncture approach, up to 6ml of blood can be collected into these tubes. Blood DNA is preserved for up to 8 months at room temperature. For more information about this product, please check out this link.

DRgard® Blood Tube

Biomatrica will introduce a new ambient temperature-based preservation of DNA and RNA in whole blood samples in a single blood collection tube. This product preserves RNA for up to 2 weeks at room temperature followed by cold storage for longer preservation, representing the longest ambient preservative for blood RNA available in the market. The product will be available initially as a RUO product.

DNAgard® Saliva

In 2012, Biomatrica will launch our first saliva DNA preservative – DNAgard Saliva – for preservation of DNA in saliva for up to 1 year at room temperature. The product will be available in a collection device for collection, preservation and shipping of saliva samples at ambient temperatures. More details about this product will be available shortly.

DNAstable® Plus

This represents the next generation innovation to Biomatrica’s industry-leading long-term ambient temperature preservative for purified genomic DNA samples. This new product is offered in a very flexible format: (a) liquid only, (b) liquid-to-dry, or (c) dry-down matrix. Long-term preservation of DNA can be achieved either at room temperature, elevated temperatures (up to 85C), or in the cold (4C) without impact on quality or recovery. This flexible storage formats and extended range of temperatures offer a unique capability that meets and scales with needs for low-copy (forensics) or high volume (biobanking) storage and preservation of genomic DNA.

Biomatrica in the News

The company had several exciting news announcements in the second half of 2011.

Biomatrica awarded several technology development contracts

In November 2011, Biomatrica won a number of awards and contracts for developing ambient-temperature stabilization and other nascent technologies for use in biobanking and diagnostic devices.

Biomatrica feature articles in local media

San Diego Union-Tribune: Biomatrica founders were featured in an article published in the Dec 4th 2011 San Diego Union-Tribune's Intellectual Capital section. Click here.

The Daily Transcript: In November 2011, Biomatrica's CEO, Dr Judy Muller-Cohn was voted as one of "San Diego's TOP 50 INFLUENTIALS!". A feature article about Judy was published in the Dec 30, 2011 publication of The Daily Transcript; see link here.

Recent Publications & Posters on Biomatrica technology

In the second half of 2011, Biomatrica technologies have been described in several peer-reviewed articles, posters, oral talks and application notes listed below:

Davis, M.C., Le, L., Clabaugh, K., Trogdon, C., Nhan, P., Odigie, K., Lee, S., Hampikian, G. The PCR enhancer PCRboostTM overcomes inhibitors in STR and mitochondrial microsequencing reactions. 2011. Forensic Science International - Genetics. Submitted

Eva Hibová, Pavla Christelová, Jana ížková, Jaroslav Doležel. DNAgard Tissues & Cells preserve plant tissue at room temperature. 2011. Application Note.

Daniel C. Edelman, Holly Stevenson, Yonghong Wang, Sharon Ohgi, Rolf Muller, Paul S. Meltzer. Long term stability of total RNA in RNAstable® as evaluated by expression microarray. Abstract submitted to the 2012 BRN Symposium, Washington DC, Feb 22-23, 2012.

Rolf Muller, Judy Muller-Cohn, Vasco Liberal, Steven Wilkinson, Omoshile Clement, Scott Whitney, Ranga Partha, Angela Stassinopoulos, Shireen Lutfunnessa, Winnie Huang and Sharron Ohgi. Ambient Biostabilization in the Age of Personalized Medicine – A Paradigm Shift in Biospecimen Management. Abstract submitted to the 2012 BRN Symposium, Washington DC, Feb 22-23, 2012.