BTX, The Electroporation Experts, provides you with the technical tools, applications, protocols and references for the latest advancements in the field of molecular delivery.  Electroporation, electrofusion, transfection, bacterial transformation, plant protoplast fusion or embryo manipulation can be performed with BTX Electro Cell Manipulators.

Electroporation and cell fusion (electrofusion) are techniques used to perform research on embryonic stem cells (HESC), adult stem cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, therapeutic cloning and cancer research.

The transfection of genes into mammalian cells and silencing gene expression with siRNA can be performed with the BTX high throughput HT Electroporation System when used with the BTX ECM 830 Electroporation Generator.  The siRNA transfection is efficient and there is no cytotoxicity associated as with other chemical methods.

Bacterial transformation is another electroporation application.  It can be performed in a single cuvette or in BTX HT 96-Well or 25-Well Electroporation System. These new systems provide high efficiency and high viability when paired with the ECM 630 Electroporation Generator.

One of BTX’s greatest strengths is the variety of specialized electrodes for in vivo, in vitro and in ovo applications.  No other manufacturer can boast the broad electrode offering making BTX truly the electroporation experts.

BTX Genetrodes and Genepaddles are designed for in vivo explant tissue gene delivery. BTX Tweezertrodes are ideal for in vivo drug and gene delivery and  experimental gene therapy and protein delivery.

The BTX Petri Pulser is designed for the electroporation of adherent cells in situ or for large volume electroporation.

The BTX ECM 2001 Electrofusion Generator is a state of the art instrument for cell fusion and hybridoma production.  If you need to generate monoclonal antibodies or perform nuclear transfer, BTX electro cell manipulators are the perfect tools for your research.

New to the BTX product offering are E-Competent Cells. The E-Competent Cells can assist the researcher in the generation of cDNA libraries and to analyze gene functions. GC10 are electrocompetent E. Coli cells that can be transformed by electroporation.  A mixture of GC10 e-competent cells and DNA subjected to electroporation by the BTX ECM 630 Generator results in much higher yields of transformants than those obtained by heat shock transformations.