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Ceres Nanosciences Nanotrap Virus Capture Kit

Nov 07, 2019

Ceres Nanosciences has launched the Nanotrap Virus Capture Kit, which concentrates whole virus particles from complex biological matrices resulting in high-quality input material for a range of downstream analytical methods such as multiplex nucleic acid, protein, and infectivity assays. The company said that it has data demonstrating the kit's compatibility with multiple commercial nucleic acid kits for influenza virus samples, as well as an application note demonstrating use of the technology to improve the detection of Zika virus in urine samples.

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