Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Comprehensive Line of RNA Purification Kits to Isolate Biomolecules from Diverse Samples

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced the launch of its SurePrep™ RNA Purification Kits, which enable the capture of all sizes of RNA molecules from biological samples. This technology provides purified full-length large RNAs as well as small RNAs such as microRNA (miRNA) and short-interfering RNA (siRNA) that are being investigated as key components in regulating gene expression in signalling pathways, cell death, organ development, metabolism, and disease states.

SurePrep Kits are versatile, isolating RNA from a wide variety of tissues and cell types, and they save time in the lab by reducing the number of steps involved in RNA purification. The SurePrep line utilizes spin-column chromatography with a proprietary resin for capturing RNA molecules from plant and animal tissues, cultured cells, fungi, blood, bacteria and yeast. The offering includes the TrueTotal™ and Small RNA purification kits, which serve a wide range of applications.

The TrueTotal Kit is universal. It enables the extraction of all sizes of RNA, including large messenger RNA, ribosomal RNA as well as small RNA species (less than 200 nucleotides) such as transfer RNA and miRNA. The total volume of RNA eluted from the TrueTotal RNA purification kit is sufficient to perform applications involving both large and small RNA. The SurePrep Small RNA Purification Kit provides a rapid and efficient method to enrich small RNA (less than 200 nucleotides).

Other SurePrep kits will be introduces soon as specific procedures such as isolating nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA, purifying RNA from leucocytes and urine-bacteria RNA, and recovery of RNA, DNA and protein from the same biological sample.