Kendrick Laboratories performs custom proteomic services for academia, federal institutions and industry. The company specializes in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and has a turnaround time of about a week for this method. Kendrick s two-dimensional gels are especially useful for studying protein phosphorylation and for comparing complex protein mixtures for differences. With more than two decades of experience, Kendrick can meet all requirements that include silver, coomassie and sypro ruby staining, autoradiography, fluorography, laser and electronic scanning, computerized gel analysis with complete reports, transblotting, Western blotting and protein identification by mass spectrometry. Kendrick Laboratories is based in Madison, Wis.
EXACT Sciences Corporation uses applied genomics to develop effective, patient-friendly screening technologies for use in the detection of cancer. Certain of its technologies are currently being offered in a commercial testing service, PreGen-Plus, developed by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings. PreGen-Plus is used for screening for colorectal cancer in the average-risk population. Colorectal cancer, which is the most deadly cancer among non-smokers, is generally curable if detected early. Despite the availability of colorectal cancer screening and diagnostic tests for more than 20 years, the rate of early detection of colorectal cancer remains low, and deaths from colorectal cancer remain high. EXACT Sciences believes its genomics-based technologies will help enable detection of colorectal cancer so that more people can be effectively treated. Founded in 1995, EXACT Sciences is based in Marlborough, Mass.
