Canvax Biotech
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Canvax is a leading manufacturer and supplier of the most innovative solutions, kits and R&D Reagents inside Molecular Biology fields. Since its foundation in 2001, Canvax offers reliable, cost-effective and easy-to-use innovative tools for research. Based in Córdoba (Spain), since its beginning it has focused on R&D of multiplex high throughput platforms (HTS) for Drug discovery and Diagnostic applied biosensors. Over a decade later, Canvax is a worldwide leading expert in GPCR expression in heterologous cells, with important patents and exclusive know-how. Canvax prides itself to be the first company to get an unprecedented milestone that could revolutionize the Diagnostics sector: Canvax established stable high-level expression of odour GPCRs into heterologous cell lines in 2014. This key milestone, that could be applied in diagnostic, perfume and cosmetic industry, are being employed to obtain a molecular nose, a sensitive and non-invasive diagnostic molecular device for early detection of cancer, as the nose of trained dogs do. Thanks to this project, Canvax was awarded, in 2013, with the largest Public & Private Contract for Pre competitive Technology Development in Spanish history. Website : www.lifescience.canvaxbiotech.com | ||
Cell Health
Cell health assays provide a simple way to measure various parameters of living, dead or dying cells. Kits are available for measuring cell viability and cytotoxicity, anchorage-dependent cell death, cellular senescence, cell proliferation and cellular hypoxia.
Measurements of cell viability and cytotoxicity are widely used to study the effects of growth factors and cytokines, inhibitors and activators, as well as immune response signals.
Many viability and toxicity test kits (such as XTT, resazurin and BrdU kits) monitor the presence or viability of living cells by measuring the metabolic conversion or incorporation of a substrate into cell molecules.
Assay kits that measure dead or dying cells are usually based on the activity of apoptotic enzymes (i.e., caspase-3) or the intracellular release of an enzyme or molecule indicative of cell death (e.g. that is, cytochrome c, LDH).
