At Kerafast, our list of providing institutions and portfolio of unique bioreagents continues to grow – and with that, so does our number of customers. We’ve now shipped reagents to customers in 53 different countries across six continents! As a result of this growth, we’ve expanded our customer service team and are excited to welcome
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive disease affecting the brain and is currently ranked the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Symptoms of AD generally manifest in a person’s mid-60s and include loss of memory and cognitive function. As the disease progresses, extracellular deposits of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides and intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles
The public health concern over the Zika outbreak continues to escalate as new details on the transmission and localization of infected mosquitoes emerge. Recently in New York City, evidence of the first sexual transmission of the virus from a female to a male was reported by the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Although
Researchers from the University at Buffalo have reversed aging in adult stem cells via a single transcription factor called NANOG. Their results, published in the journal Stem Cells, add to our understanding of the aging process and could aid in the development of treatments for various age-related illnesses, including atherosclerosis, osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s disease. The
There are numerous examples of humans acquiring disease from monkeys and other non-human primates, but fewer instances of humans transmitting disease to monkeys. A team of researchers led by Dr. Martin Antonio of the Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia and the University of Warwick found that Staphylococcus aureus had been passed from humans to
In a new Nature Medicine study, a team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered how an RNA-binding protein may contribute to ALS disease progression. ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a progressive and ultimately fatal neurological disease that attacks the motor nerve cells within the body.
Key partners add to growing list of academic institutions making reagents available Boston, MA., August 2, 2016. Kerafast Inc., developers of an online platform to facilitate accessibility to unique bioresearch materials from laboratories across the globe, today announced an increase in the number of international institutional laboratories adding reagents and services to its catalog. Kerafast
Biomolecule labeling requires reaction procedures that can be performed under physiological conditions (e.g., neutral pH, aqueous solution, ambient temperature) with low reactant concentrations to ensure non-toxic, low background labeling at reasonable time scales while still preserving biological function. Click chemistry can be an excellent method to accomplish this. Below, we explain how traditional copper-catalyzed click
As you may know, Kerafast recently exhibited at ASM Microbe 2016, a microbiology conference held just down the road from us here in downtown Boston. We enjoyed discussing the latest in unique microbiology reagents with researchers from around the world, and for every booth visitor, we donated $1 to the Foundation for the National Institutes
Tuberculosis infects almost 10 million people every year and is challenging to treat. Treatment consists of multiple antibiotics taken over several months, partly because of variations in antibiotic tolerance among subpopulations of the tuberculosis-causing bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.A specific combination of factors that determine why individual mycobacteria of the same genetic background can respond differently to