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Reduced shipments around Easter

gn — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:13:50 +0000

Easter is an important Holiday in Norway. Most offices are closed from noon Wednesday until Tuesday morning the week after. This year Easter comes first week of April. This means we will not be able to ship goods from Norway between April 4th and April 9th.

‘Easter’ in Norway is called ‘Påske’. Though the celebrations of Easter in Norway are not very different from that of the celebrations in the other parts of the world, the Easter here are characterized by more colorful celebrations and longer holidays. In Norway, Easter holiday is longer as compared to many other European countries. The Easter holidays begin on Wednesday afternoon even before the Maundy Thursday, and wrap up on Tuesday morning after Easter Monday.

Easter in Norway is all about Easter symbols such as Easter chickens, Easter eggs in all colors and occasionally Easter bunnies. Easter celebration in Norway is seeped in the bright hues of Yellow. Drawn chickens, plastic chickens, cotton chickens-all of them in yellow–can be seen in private homes, shop windows, newspapers and magazines, on plastic bags and on television. Another popular pastime of Easter season in Norway is Yathzee, a popular game .

Reading crime stories and detective novels during Easter is a peculiar national trait in Norway. In order to cash in on this national pastime, publishers churn out series of books known as “Easter-Thrillers” or Påskekrimmen. TV stations, radio and newspapers also jump on the bandwagon by running detective series based on the works of famous crime novelists such as Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Simenon and Ruth Rendell.

The more adventurous ones prefer to spend the Easter holidays by skiing in the mountains. Getting away from the city, enjoying the snow and the weather and not to mention getting a tan to show off when back at work are popular things to do during the vacation. Easter Holidays become a long weekend rejuvenation phase for most of the people in the country and is thus the longest awaited holiday too!

(from: festivals.iloveindia.com/easter/traditions/easter-in-norway.html)

ArcticZymes AS Files New Enzyme Patent Application

gn — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:42:56 +0000

Monday, 20. February 2012

Biotec Pharmacon subsidiary ArcticZymes AS has filed a priority application on a newly developed heat-labile endonuclease with outstanding properties.

This new endonuclease features optimal activity at extremely high salt concentrations and is irreversibly inactivated by very gentle heat-treatment conditions.

With this new enzyme it is for the first time possible to offer manufacturers and users of enzymes a convenient way to eliminate background noise from contaminating DNA and RNA. The contamination of enzymes in molecular biology is becoming a growing concern after it was initially noticed as an issue with TaqPolymerase, but with the new enzyme from ArcticZymes a solution is readily available.

In protein purification – a new market for ArcticZymes, the enzyme offers unprecendented convenience, as the nuclease digestion step can actually take place at low temperature, in standard protein buffer due to the high salt activity of the enzyme and the activity of the enzyme can be conveniently and irreversibly terminated by gentle heat-inactivation.

The heat-inactivation feature provides a simple workflow and an economic alternative to tedious and loss impairing methods for removal of the nuclease, and the high-salt activity makes it possible to access DNA and RNA tightly bound to proteins, so a new level of removal can be achieved.

Adding this patent application to the already large and strong portfolio of existing patent families protecting its main phosphatase, glycosylase and nuclease products, ArcticZymes has now further improved its strong proprietary position on this field.

“This latest patent application will undoubtedly position ArcticZymes AS strongly within the expanding contamination control market, and it will open new attractive markets for the company. The product covered by this patent application is exceptional in its efficacy and variety of application.” said Jan Buch Andersen, managing director of ArcticZymes AS. “With our present product and patent portfolio we are confident to establish a strong foothold within this and related markets.” he says.

ArcticZymes AS develops, produces and sells enzymes used in molecular DNA technologies and diagnostics. The market is highly expansive, and the rapid and diversifying technological development creates a strong market demand for new and improved enzymes.

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