What does Biomatrica mean?

What does Biomatrica mean?

Biomatrica is a United States-based biotechnology company, and subsidiary of Exact Sciences Corporation, that develops chemicals for ambient temperature preservation of biological materials for the purpose of expanding the availability and accuracy of medical diagnostics and research.

What are Biomatrica’s preanalytical products?

Biomatrica began commercialization of preanalytical products in 2009 with the launch of its “gard” product line. These products include RNAgard Blood, DNAgard Blood, and DNAgard Tissue and Cells, products designed to stabilize biological samples from collection to analytical testing.

What does Biomatrica do for QIAGEN?

Biomatrica and Qiagen subsequently co-developed QIAsafe Blood, an ambient temperature stabilization reagent for unpurified DNA in whole blood. Later in 2007, Biomatrica released molecular assay enhancement products, PCRboost and STRboost, for enhancement of PCR performed on degraded and trace DNA samples.

What does Biomatrica do for assay stabilization?

Following stabilization at room temperature with Biomatrica’s chemical reagents, biological specimens could be rehydrated for subsequent studies with the addition of a few drops of water. Since 2012, the company has become increasingly focused on its pre-analytic collection and assay stabilization service businesses described below.