BioChain
This Supplier Spotlight® highlights BioChain, the world leader in high quality processed bio-sample products and analysis services used in advancing translational medicine, companion diagnostics, and clinical product research and development.
What is your company’s mission?
Innovation is our driving force. Respect, Integrity, Improvement and Honor are the concepts that drive our company culture. Our employees are empowered to make the world a better place and advance their careers through hard work, high standards and a steadfast commitment to meeting our client’s needs. We are an agile company with a large reach and commitment to quality that has kept us competitive since 1994.
What products and services do you offer?
We offer an array of products, including biospecimen samples such as FFPE, frozen, plasma, buffy coat from oncology patient donors, automated systems, cell culture, COVID-19 research related kits, epigenetics and NGS, liquid biopsy, protein, RNA and tissues. Our custom services include digital spatial profiling, cell-free DNA, clinical sample collection, custom extraction and purification, custom tissue section and array, contract research project, component for kit control, OEM manufacturing and whole slide scanning services. High quality is our guiding principle. All biospecimen collections are fully consented and obtained under IRB approval, and our operations are ISO 9001:13485 certified.
What problems do you solve?
We provide complete solutions for complex research projects. Biological sample analysis is an imperative aspect in obtaining accurate disease diagnosis and drug discovery. BioChain is a one-stop-shop: we develop and supply a series of products from sample collection and preparation to analysis, providing customers with complete solutions.
What are the most innovative tools and technologies that you offer?
We provide optimum solutions. To meet the specific needs of customers we provide custom products and services, including biological sample collection, sample extraction, quality control references, kits for extraction and analysis and key assays and components.
What are your competitive advantages?
We offer optimized kits and reagents, prepared DNA, RNA, protein lysates, tissue sections and arrays and reference samples our customers can’t get anywhere else. What makes us unique are high-quality, IRB approved, fully consented normal human biosamples. We have also developed an automated sample extraction instrument.
Who are your clients?
Many of the world’s top pharma, academic institutions and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
What new products and services are you developing in 2022?
Digital spatial profiling services: BioChain specializes in providing a fully integrated end-to-end, full stack process with in-house tissues, histopathology team services, digital Leica scanning and an expert NGS data analysis team to fulfill all your research needs.
Liquid biopsy: BioChain offers a wide range of liquid biopsy products, including reagent kits, extraction services and OEM manufacturing, to empower your research. Our cell free DNA extraction kit is a magnetic bead-based extraction kit designed to isolate circulating cell free DNA from bodily fluids.
AnaPrep 12 Dx: AnaPrep12 Dx is a high-precision tool to isolate DNA and RNA from biological and pathological specimens. AnaPrep12 Dx comes with a built-in camera to ease your workflow and increase accuracy.
Where are your laboratories and offices located?
San Francisco Bay Area.
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