Matt's Scientific Suppliers List
Below are companies with Web pages which you may find helpful in finding supplies for your laboratory. Where applicable I offer a brief description and comments on the supplier.
Disclaimer: The anecdotes and opinions expressed on this list are my own and do not necessarily represent any products or companies status past or present. The opinions expressed on this list are not representative of the individuals or institutions involved in the maintenance of this web site. Your milage may vary.
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Last update on 6 March 2002.
BioSupplyNet A list of suppliers supported by Cold Spring Harbor.
Anderson's List of Scientific companies A listing of several hundred scientific companies, some with some without links to the companies homepage. It's a handy list if you are looking for an address or phone number.
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Adept Scientific Distributor of software and hardware for scientific applications such as data acquisition and analysis. Makers of "ChemDraw".
Advanced ChemTech, Inc. Peptide synthesis reagents.
Affinity BioReagents, Inc. Essentially antibodies. Scanning the price list is a good way to get a quick peek at their entire inventory.
Aldrich Chemical Company Affiliated with Sigma chemical, more chemical than biochemical.
Allied Electronics Electronic components
Alta Bioscience A service located at the University of Birmingham, UK. They offer oligo and peptide synthesis, sequencing, and analytical procedures such as mass spec., HPLC.
American Allied Biochemical Restriction enzymes and lambda DNA. Product list and pricing on their site.
Amersham Life Sciences Now Amersham Pharmacia Biotech.
Aquatic Eco-Systems Supplier of marine and freshwater aquarium equipment. Large tank to pond scale. This company also carries things that you might find useful for biological research such as filter bags (1 to 800 micron mesh) and magnetic drive pumps (no metal in the pump, good for circulating chemistry ).
Asper Biotech Services and products for high throughput genotyping.
ATCC American Type Culture Collection. Supplier of virus, bacteria, yeast and animal cell strains.
Atto Instruments, Inc. Systems for real-time digital fluorescence analysis
Avanti Polar Lipids Purified natural and synthetic lipids. As of 1 March 1997 this site does not have an on line catalog.
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The Baker Company Inc. Makers of hoods for cell culture.
Bangs Manufacturer of microspheres. Virtually any common flavor and many unique ones: latex, silica, functionalized, colored, magnetic, NIST -traceable etc.
Bare Bones Software, Inc. Software for those intent on real programming.
Barnsted Thermolyne
Beckman/Coulter Centrifuges, spectrophotometers, HPLCs and whatever Coulter sells.
Bel-Art Products Plastic products.
Bellco Glass Chromatography and other glassware.
BIO 101, now Q Bio Gene Kits for mol. biol.
Biology Electronic Newsgroup Network A catalogue of web sites and other stuff.
Bioptechs Live cell microscopy environmental control systems
Biorad
Biosoft Software for molecular biology, curve fitting, etc.
Biotechniques The home page for Biotechniques the magazine which is great for product listings and occasionally has interesting techniques for everything from molecular biology to electron microscopy.
Uniblitz. Supplier of fluorescent reagents & related biochemicals for life science research and drug discovery.
Bioworld A distributor for scientific equipment.
Bio-World Molecular biology products, synthesis services and kits for the most part.
Brinkmann Instruments Includes Eppendorf Scientific's cell and molecular biology products with Brinkmann's liquid handling, centrifugation, temperature control, evaporation and synthesis products.
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Calbiochem-Novabiochem (UK) Ltd. Supplier of chemistry and specialty chemicals including reagents for oncogene research and peptide synthesis.
Cambridge Electrophoresis Small independent company that makes high quality gel running equipment.
Carolina Biological Supply Co.
Charles River Lab rats, mice, pigs, rabbits and more.
Chroma Filter sets for microscopy.
Clontech Their catalog is on line as text and in acrobat format. 2 February 1997.
Coleparmer Laboratory equipment and instrumentation, temperature, pH, oxygen, ovens, glassware ect.
Cora Styles Needles 'N Blocks Special tools for yeast research: dissecting needles, replicating blocks (4" and 6"), and hemmed velveteens.
Cytoskeleton Cytoskeletal proteins.
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Digital Instruments Scanning probe and atomic force microscopes.
Display Systems Gene expression and regulation.
DNA Star DNA and protein analysis software.
Dow Parent company for Dow/Corning
DuPont NEN Radiochemicals for research.
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EdgeCraft Diamond knives for electron microscopy.
Edward High Vacuum High vacuum products.
Endogen Cytokine kits, antibodies, proteins T cell products, and other cell biology products.
Energy Beam Sciences Supplies for electron microscopy, light microscopy, and histology.
Epicentre Molecular biologicals.
Eppendorf Scientific Now Brinkmann.
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Fed Ex For when you absolutely have to get that bug overnight.
Fisher Scientific A distributor of scientific equipment and supplies.
Fluka Chemical Company Affiliated with Sigma chemical.
FMC BioProducts Specialty agaroses and other reagents for mol. biol.
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Gene Codes Corp. Software for DNA sequencing.
Genetech A company PR site. They have a materials transfer agreement form on line so if you would like Genetech reagents for your own research you can submit the paperwork over the internet.
Genome Systems Inc. Supplier of molecular biology products. 22 February 1996.
Genosys Biotechnologies, Inc. A molecular biologicals supplier.
Genetronics Manufacture of electroporators.
Gibco, Life Technologies Cell culture reagents and molecular biologicals.
GMI Inc. Brokering, purchase & sale of new, pre-owned, and refurbished analytical laboratory, clinical laboratory, hospital laboratory, biotechnology and general laboratory instrumentation.
GraphPad Software Their byline: Intuitive Software for Science.
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Hampton Research Distributor of materials for crystallography including crystal plates and dialysis buttons.
High-Q, Inc. Maker of laboratory water purification systems both stills and cold-technology systems.
HTI Bio-Products Peptide, protein and antibody production services.
Hybaid Manufacturer of equipment for molecular biology such as thermal cyclers, hybridization ovens, gel boxes.
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Immunology Consultants Laboratory
Improvision Makers of OpenLab software for imaging
Integra Biosciences Not sure what they're up to but they wanted to be on this list, let me know
Integrated DNA Technologies Oligo manufacturers.
Intergen Products for cell culture, cell biology and molecular biology.
Intracellular Imaging Imaging systems for microscopy.
Invitrogen Plasmids and kits for molecular biology. Catalog on line.
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The Jackson Laboratory A great source for genetically inbred mice. Informative web site.
Jandel Scientific Software Now owned by Statistical Product and Service Solutions. Data analysis software such as "Sigma Plot".
Jolley Consulting and Research Fluorescence polarization systems.
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Kimble-Kontes Glass Chromatography and other glassware.
Kodak Film and filmless imaging along with technical infomation online. Informative web site.
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Laballiance Chromatography equipment and accessories including complete systems, pumps, detectors etc.
Labconco Corp.
Labscientific Inc.
Lehle Seeds Arabidopsis seeds...
Leica Microscope systems.
Leinco Technologies Reagents and kits for immunology, signal transduction, flow cytometry, neuroscience, endocrinology etc.
Li-Cor Sequencing equipment.
Lightools Research Light boxes and gel documentation systems.
Linkam Scientific Instruments Ltd. Heating and cooling stages for microscopes.
Lofstrand Labs Limited Most molecular biological services such as plasmid/phage production, DNA sequencing, oligonucleotide synthesis along with immunology services
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MBI Fermentas Molecular biology products.
McMaster-Carr Supply Company Industrial supply house selling everything from office furniture to grinders. Good if you need things like o-rings, nuts/bolts, and tools to keep the lab running without paying someone $5.00 for one o-ring.
Mettler-Toledo, Inc. Balances
Micron Separations Inc. Now Osmonics Laboratory Products. Filtration products.
Midland Certified Reagent Company Oligo manufacturers.
Midland Molecular biology services; clones, sequencing.
Midwest Scientific Molecular biologicals, and other lab supplies.Online catalog, protocols, etc.
MikroMasch Cantilevers and calibration gratings for SPM.
Millipore Corporation Best known for their water purification systems.
MJ Research PCR machines.
MME, Microscopy/Microscopy Education Marketing and education for microscopy.
Molecular Dynamics Makers of confocal microscopes, phosphorimagers and other high end scientific equipment. Now owned by Amersham Pharmacia.
Molecular Probes A significant portion of their catalog on line.
Monomer Sciences In a word, nucleotides.
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Nanoprobes Source for gold reagents for immune and other localization studies.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information Databases/BLAST .
National Instruments Makers of instrumentation and software for data acquisition.
National Semiconductor Probably not of much use to most but if you are looking for information on a specific chip they have it on line. Their web site contains reference material for all their chips.
Nest Group. Distributor of HPLC media and the like.
New England Biolabs Restriction enzymes.
Newport Optical componets.
Nikon Microscopes.
Norgen Biotek Contract research services and products for nucleic acid analysis.
Norton Performance Plastics Corp. Makers of Tygon brand tubing.
Novagen Cloning, expression systems and various other molecular stuff.
NT-MDT Co. Scanning Probe Microscopes.
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Oakton Instruments Laboratory equipment and instrumentation, temperature, pH, oxygen, ovens, glassware ect.
Ohaus Corp. Balances
Olympus Olympus cameras and microscopes.
Omega Optical Filters for microscopy, flow cytometry, astronomy and anything else.
Oncor, Inc.
Optiscan Confocal laser scanning microscope systems.
Orial Optical componets.
Orion Research Inc. pH/ion/conductivity meters and such.
Osmonics Laboratory Products Osmonics Laboratory Products. Filtration products.
Oxford Molecular Ltd. Molecular modeling software.
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Packard Instrument Company, Inc. Scintillation counters including microplate systems. Interesting application notes.
PanVera Corporation Supplier of chemicals and biologicals.
Perkin Elmer