We offer a large variety of products to meet your requirements for sample collection, transportation, and storage. Our Whatman FTA/FTA Elute cards provide simple solutions to collect, preserve, and purify biological samples at room temperature for downstream DNA analysis. FTA DMPK-A, FTA DMPK-B, and FTA DMPK-C cards are ideal media for dried blood spot (DBS) micro-volume sampling and are widely used in drug metabolism (DM), pharmacokinetic (PK), and toxicokinetic (TK) studies. 903 cards have a long history in blood spot sampling for screening programs.
Now any kind of body fluids like blood samples or Nucleic acid samples can be stored for years (e.g. FTA cards can store Nucleic Acid samples for atleast 20+ years in room temp. ) in room temperature, which is a break through invention as well as cost effective. This technology can immensely contribute to store the samples in room temperature cost effectively and ease the way to create a Genebank / DNA Database as well as investigating at crime scenes etc.
Convenient collection products and reliable solutions for transportation and preservation of biological samples are essential in a wide range of forensic, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, research, and screening applications. Biological samples include for examples blood, buccal, tissue, plant, and cultured cell samples as well as microorganisms. DNA and other biomolecules collected with these products may, after simple purification steps, be used for many types of downstream analyses. Cytiva can customize kits that include any of our Whatman FTA products or other sample collection products and accessories.