The COVID-19 pandemic sparked the need to develop an efficient and cost-effective vaccine to provide mass immunization against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. An Israeli study, initially published in June 2020 on the preprint server bioRxiv, examined the possibility of generating a new recombinant vaccine to protect against SARS-CoV-2. The report is now available
Nominate Your Graduate Student! Do you know a graduate student who is helping advance life science research? This quarter, we invite you to nominate any graduate student to be featured in our upcoming newsletter and social media channels. The winners will be randomly drawn for a chance to win a $1250 gift card. The nomination
By: Amelia Gibson, PhD, MBA, Senior Director of Product Licensing at Kerafast and Absolute Antibody It’s rare that one gets to participate in something as historic and globally impactful as the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. While I know little about vaccine development and no longer do any benchwork, I knew that I could contribute
Here at Kerafast, our company mission is to facilitate access to unique reagents developed by academic laboratories worldwide on behalf of the scientific community. Together with our providing investigators, we work to distribute reagents that might otherwise have been sitting unused in laboratory freezers to researchers committed to furthering scientific progress. The COVID-19 outbreak made
At Kerafast, we understand that lab managers play a vital role in the research community through their indispensable contributions to the lab. This past holiday season, we invited our community of scientists to nominate their lab manager to enter a random drawing for the chance to win a $1000 gift card plus $250 for their
At Kerafast, we understand that lab managers play a vital role in the research community through their indispensable contributions to the lab. This past holiday season, we invited our community of scientists to nominate their lab manager to enter a random drawing for the chance to win a $1000 gift card plus $250 for their
BioNTech recently published an announcement expressing gratitude to its employees and various partners who have assisted the company in developing a successful COVID-19 vaccine. The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine has been shown to be 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 and it has received emergency use authorizations from more than 45 countries around the world. Kerafast is very
The winners are in! This holiday season we invited you to nominate your lab manager to be featured in our upcoming newsletter, social media channels and blog. The winners were randomly selected for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card plus $250 for their lab! We’re happy to announce the winners of the lab
Our partner Asymmetrex recently published a research report verifying the presence of immortal DNA strands in human tissue stem cells. The human liver stem cells used in the study were developed using Asymmetrex’s patented SACK tissue stem cell expansion technology, and they are available to researchers worldwide via the Kerafast catalog. Before the new paper, published
Nominate Your Lab Manager! Do you know an outstanding lab manager deserving recognition? This holiday season we invite you to nominate your lab manager to be featured in our upcoming newsletter, social media channels and blog. The winners will be randomly selected for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card plus $250 for their