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Chemiluminescence Immunoassays (CLIA)

Chemiluminescence is the generation of electromagnetic radiation as light by the release of energy from a chemical reaction. While the light can, in principle, be emitted in the ultraviolet, visible or infrared region, the reactions emitting visible light are the most common. They are also the most interesting and useful....

Life Science Company Calbiotech Expands Holdings with Moduline Systems

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 10, 2013 -- Calbiotech is proud to announce it recently expanded its holdings by acquiring Moduline Systems, a microplate-dispensing and vial-filling equipment manufacturer.  Moduline Systems will become a business unit of Calbiotech, which made the acquisition in an effort to grow the business and expand product offerings....

Preventing False Positive Test Results

A false-positive test result is one that appears to detect a disease (analyte) when in fact it is not present. A false-positive test result may thus suggest that a person has the disease when he or she does not. False-positive results that result in medical errors occur in a wide...

Life Science Company Calbiotech Expands into Antibody Production

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21, 2014 -- Calbiotech announced today that it is expanding its manufacturing capabilities with the addition of a new GMP monoclonal antibody production facility and the hire of Dr.Jimin Wang, Vice President of Research and Development, who will lead the project. Antibody production will cater to both Calbiotech...

Is Your Research Being Held Back by Standard Immunoassay Kits?

Calbiotech offers customized immunoassay products to aid researchers. Calbiotech can design and customize immunoassay products to meet your needs and applications. Currently we have customized immunoassay products for Human, Mouse, Rat, Sheep, Canine, Porcine and other species that are used by major pharmaceutical companies, universities and research centers. We also...

ELISA - A Powerful Analytical Technique

Calbiotech offers over 150 ELISA Kits for Endocrine, Tumor and Cardiac Markers, as well as Infectious Diseases and Autoimmune Disorders. Calbiotech ELISA kits are unique because they feature: Simple 1 hour procedure 96 Well Breakable Microplate Interchangeable reagents (Wash Buffer, Stop Solution & TMB Substrate) Assay performed at Room Temperature...

New Product Focus: Lysozyme Elisa

Lysozyme ELISA for the detection of human lysozyme in serum, plasma or stool. The Calbiotech Lysozyme Assay Kit (Cat.# LS162C) provides researchers with a sensitive assay to measure levels of lysozyme in human samples. This direct sandwich ELISA assay can detect lysozyme from 50ng/ml down to 0.75 ng/mL. Lysozyme is one of...

lumELISA™ Provides Increased Sensitivity and Wider Dynamic Range

Did you know you could increase the sensitivity of an ELISA by as much as 1,000-fold by adapting the test to a lumELISATM format? A lumELISATM is an ELISA which uses luminol as its substrate. Luminol is an organic compound which, when oxidized, emits a blue light, which can be read...

Preventing Contamination: Tweak your technique.

Calbiotech Immunoassay kits are easy to use, stable and reliable kits. Each kit comes with a package insert that is short and so vividly written that even a new ELISA user (technician) can comfortably perform the assay with a great accuracy and success. Nevertheless, like any other analytical measurement methods, ELISA is also susceptible to some...