Tritech Research

Tritech Research
Private
Founded 1991 (1991)
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Andrew Papp, founder and CEO
Products Microinjectors, micromanipulators, electroporators, microscopes, incubators
Website www.tritechresearch.com

Tritech Research is a Los Angeles-based supplier of biotechnology equipment whose specialties include gene transfer technology, temperature control, laboratory automation and supplying lower-cost laboratory equipment and disposables.

Tritech Research is responsible for the design and manufacture of a device called the "Cloning Gun", a handheld electroporator capable of mammalian transfection and bacterial transformation of which the company's CEO is the patent's co-author and assignee.[1] Through the use of an inexpensive "pipectrode" (a portmanteau of the words pipette and electrode) which allows the user to aspirate a mixture of cells and DNA and position it between electrodes, electroporate, and immediately eject transfected/ transformed cells, the Cloning Gun greatly increases the efficiency of the transfection/ transformation process within a biology laboratory setting.[2][3]

The company has competed for and won two SBIR awards from the National Institute of Health for the development of technological improvements to the process of electroporation of neuronal and tumor cells, significantly reducing the size and cost of the equipment necessary to perform this process while increasing the operating speed.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ US 5,422,272, Papp, Andrew A. & John V. Biondo, Jr., "Improvements to apparatus and method for electroporation", issued 1995
  2. ↑ Johnson, Brett (6 December 1999), "Divine spark", The Scientist (Ontario, Canada: LabX Media Group) 13 (24): 23
  3. ↑ Stull, Deborah (11 December 2000), "New Tools Enable Gene Delivery", The Scientist (Ontario, Canada: LabX Media Group) 14 (24)
  4. ↑ "Improvements to Neuronal and Tumor Cell Electroporation". SBIR Source. 31 July 1993. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Improvements to Neuronal and Tumor Cell Electroporation". National Institute of Health. 31 July 1993. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
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