Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, is a leading multinational science and technology company that operates in healthcare, life science and performance materials. Founded in 1668, Merck is considered the oldest company in the world. Merck supports its customers by ensuring that drugs, food and beverages are safe for consumption by providing analytical tools for quality testing. Its broad range of ~250,000 products and services include lab water purification solutions; microbiology and bio-monitoring products; antibodies and multiplexed assay kits; analytical reagents; biochemicals; software, consumables and other services.
Life Science Research
Immunoassay Platform Solutions
Consistent analyte detection and quantification requires reliable reagents, and not all biomarker kits are created equal. Merck's kits are rigorously tested using a range of verified methods to ensure optimized performance and lot-to-lot consistency. Providing the specificity, biological dynamic ranges, and sensitivity that you require, our versatile ELISAs, ultrasensitive SMC™ assays, and MILLIPLEX® multiplex assays using Luminex® xMAP® technology deliver consistent performance, lot after lot.
MILLIPLEX® Multiplex Assays
The MILLIPLEX® portfolio of immunoassays is the largest portfolio of multiplex biomarker assays based on Luminex® xMAP® technology, offering consistent, high-quality results, so that you can do your best work while saving time, labor and costs.
Single Molecule Counting Technology
Whether you need ultra-sensitive detection from a Single Molecule Counter™ (SMC) assay, robust ELISAs, or rich multiplex profiling data using Luminex® xMAP® technology, Merck can help you get data you can trust out of each sample with minimal repetition enabling you to make the best next-step decisions. Products include: MagPix, Luminex 200, FlexMap 3D.
Luminex® Multiplexing Instruments
Complete multiplexing instrument solutions, combined with the largest portfolio of multiplex assays, give you the maximum power of Luminex® xMAP® technology for biomarker screening and protein analysis. Luminex® multiplexing instruments offer the only solution for applications requiring both high density and high throughput at the same time.
ELISA Solutions
Merck’s menu of metabolic and endocrine enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay provides end-users with access to a consistent and reliable method of investigating metabolic disease states or defining outcomes within toxicological studies during drug development. Choose from over 1,800 ELISAs.
Protein Workflow Tools
Merck provides solutions for a full range of applications. As your tool provider and partner in research, we help you achieve more clarity in less time. Optimize your workflow with solutions and never compromise on quality.
Amicon® Filters
Amicon® Ultra Centrifugal filters provide fast sample processing and promote high sample recoveries, even in dilute samples, through ultrafiltration. The unique features of the Amicon® Ultra centrifugal filters give you the fastest, most efficient concentration for sensitive downstream applications.
Centricon® Plus-70 Centrifugal Filter
The Centricon® Plus-70 centrifugal filter is designed for rapid processing of aqueous biological solutions in volumes ranging from 15 to 70 mL. Centricon® Plus-70 filters concentrate most 70 mL solutions down to 350 μL in as little as 25 minutes. Samples are typically concentrated in the 50X to 200X range, depending on the sample type and starting sample volume. These units are a convenient alternative to dialysis, lyophilization, precipitation techniques or stirred cells.
Western Blotting
Western blotting is one of the most commonly used techniques in the lab, yet difficulties persist in obtaining consistent, quality results. At Merck, we’ve been helping scientists publish their Western blots for decades, with continued innovation and steadfast technical support. Explore our expanded portfolio of products, including optimized reagents for chemiluminescent and fluorescent Western blots, as well as the SNAP i.d.® 2.0 system, which reduces blocking, washing and antibody incubation time from hours to minutes.
Cell Culture Solutions
With industry-leading sterile filtration devices based on 60 years of membrane filtration expertise, Merck supports conventional and emerging formats for cell culture. The Merck Cell Culture Solutions portfolio features over 20,000 high-quality tools to cultivate consistency in your cell culture workflow.
Scepter™ 3.0
The Scepter™ 3.0 cell counter provides the unparalleled precision of Coulter impedance counting in a convenient, handheld format. Our newest version of the popular Scepter™ cell counter has been updated with features that make it more convenient, easy-to-use, and accurate than ever before.
Stericup®Filter Systems
The Stericup vacuum filtration system combines a Steritop vacuum filtration unit with a receiver flask for processing and storing volumes from 150 mL to 1,000 mL. The Stericup vacuum filtration system combines a Steritop filter unit with a receiver flask for processing and storing volumes from 150 mL to 1,000 mL.
Cell Culture Media
Cell culture is fundamental to life science research in universities, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and industry. Whether your goal is to establish relevant cell models to answer research questions or to produce recombinant proteins or virus particles, Merck has everything you need to keep your tissue culture room thriving. A complete portfolio offers plenty of choices for quality essentials from fetal bovine serum (FBS), culture media, supplements, and cryopreservation reagents to filtration units, general labware, and specialty cultureware.
Cell Culture Sera
With more than 35 years of experience in the management and production of Sera for use in cell culture, Sigma Aldrich offers many varieties of bovine serum (cow), chicken, caprine (goat), equine (horse), human, ovine (sheep), porcine (pig) and rabbit sera produced and tested for use in cell culture applications.
Growth Factors & Cytokines
Merck offers a comprehensive range of cytokines and growth factors for cell culture. Every lot produced is thoroughly tested for bioactivity, purity, and endotoxin levels. Whether your project is big or small, we offer high quality recombinant proteins to meet your needs.
Cell Supplements
Our wide range of cell culture ingredients and supplements is designed with one goal in mind: to help grow your success. All over the world, biopharmaceutical companies rely on our products to complete the fundamental nutrition needs of cell cultures in process, while in-vitro diagnostic companies trust us for cost-effective assay development and scale-up. With our comprehensive portfolio of cell culture ingredients, non-animal origin and animal-derived cell culture supplements, we can help you stabilize your processes and obtain optimal yields with consistent results.
Analytical Sample Preparation Tools
Analytics is a constant search for answers. It is also a question of trust. Reliable data only result from correct methods and accurate instruments. With over 150 years of experience in analytics, Merck gives you the quality, tools and service you need to work with complete confidence. Combining state-of-the-art instruments with chemicals and reagents of outstanding quality, our comprehensive portfolio covers all your analytical and sample preparation requirements.
Glass Filter Holders
The Classic Glass Filter Holder is an essential tool for every research lab. The holder's multipurpose design is appropriate for a variety of applications and is available in three different support materials for compatibility with your specific application needs.
Millex® Syringe Filters
The Millex® Filter Unit, designed for small-volume sterilization and clarification of pharmacy solutions, is our most popular filtration product. Like all Millipore filters, Millex units are built with quality in mind. Raw materials are carefully inspected before being used and we exercise stringent control over our manufacturing process.
Stainless Steel Filter Holders
The analytical stainless steel filter holders are designed for the vacuum filtration of samples for bacteriological or particulate contamination analysis.
Membrane Filters
Biologically inert mixtures of cellulose acetate and cellulose nitrate have made MF-Millipore membrane filters one of the most widely used membranes in analytical and research applications.
Lab Essentials
Many protocols require essential lab equipment to tackle routine, repetitive tasks in the laboratory. Unfortunately, current offerings for this equipment are characterized by decades old designs lacking any recent innovation. We are proud to introduce the MilliSentials™ line of general lab equipment aimed at increasing lab efficiency through updated, innovative general lab equipment and devices. Featuring modernized, enhanced devices that simplify routine tasks in the laboratory, these products help streamline your applications.
MilliSentials™ Aliquoting Pipette Controller
The MilliSentials Aliquoting Pipette Controller combines the automatic aliquoting function of a repeat pipettor with the basic functions of a standard pipette controller in a single device. The device also provides touch sensitive aspirate and dispense buttons for standard pipette controller function and is compatible with all major brands of serological pipettes with volumes between 1-100mL. The MilliSentials Aliquoting Pipette Controller combines repeat pipetting and standard pipetting into one easy to use instrument.
MilliSentials™ Lab Labeling System
The MilliSentials Lab Labeling System provides a complete laboratory labeling solution with laboratory grade labels, a compact WIFI capable printer, and custom-designed laboratory labeling software. The labels have also been designed with perforations allowing one size to fit across a wide range of laboratory vessels including microcentrifuge tubes, cryovials, petri dishes, cell culture plates, and reagent bottles. The MilliSentials Lab Labeling System offers a complete labeling system specifically designed for the laboratory.
MilliSentials™ Vortexer
The MilliSentials Vortexer provides powerful agitation to liquid samples within sealed containers. The compact and powerful design will accommodate tubes with volumes from 0.2 to 50 mL, vials with volumes from 2.0 to 10 mL and square bottles up to 150 mL.
Lab Water Purification
Type 1 Ultrapure Water
Milli-Q® systems offer a unique combination of optimized water purification and monitoring technologies. The selection of the proper type1 water system for your laboratory will depend on several parameters such as: feed water available, daily volume needs, monitoring requirements, certification levels expected and any other specific requirements you may have. Application Specialists are available to discuss and help you design the ultrapure water system best adapted to your needs.
Milli-Q® EQ 7000
The new Milli-Q® EQ 7000 water purification system purifies your pure water to ultrapure (Type 1) water, readily available for a broad range of applications. This configuration allows a full remote installation of the solution.
Milli-Q® IQ 7000 Type-1 Water
An intelligent and intuitive ultrapure water solution, the Milli-Q IQ 7000 is designed to make your work as pleasant and comfortable as possible in order to maximize lab productivity. Its breakthrough ergonomic design and powerful purification media ensure consistent production of superior-quality ultrapure water.
Milli-Q® IQ 7003/05/10/15
A fully-integrated water purification system with the ultimate lab water solution, the Milli-Q IQ 7003/05/10/15 provides superior quality Type 1 & Type 2 water directly from tap water.
Milli-Q® IQ Element Water Purification & Dispensing Unit
Laboratories performing trace analyses need a reliable source of ultrapure water with consistently low elemental concentrations. When combined with a Milli-Q® IQ 7000 or Milli-Q® IQ 7003/05/10/15 water purification system, the Milli-Q® IQ Element purification and dispensing unit delivers analytical-grade ultrapure water that is suitable for trace and ultra-trace elemental analyses, including ICP-MS, GF-AAS and trace IC.
Type 2 Pure Water
For full confidence that water is not influencing your analyses, the Milli-Q® IX water purification system provides a reliable source of high-quality Type 2 pure water to feed your lab’s needs. The Milli-Q® IX water purification system supports the needs of labs in regulated environments, where compliance, accuracy and efficiency are paramount (e.g. food & beverage, environmental and industrial testing labs; clinical labs; pharma industry). It also supports research and innovation laboratories to discover and develop the next big thing—faster (e.g. academia, research institutes, pharmaceutical research, biotech).
Milli-Q® IX 7003/05/10/15
For full confidence that water is not influencing your analyses, the Milli-Q® IX pure water system provides a reliable source of high-quality Type 2 pure water to feed your lab’s needs: from general laboratory uses, such as instrument feed or buffer preparation, to your critical applications, such as microbiology culture media or staining solutions.
Milli-Q® HX 7000 Series of High-Throughput Systems
At the heat of your total pure water solution, the Milli-Q HX 7000 system serves as the nerve center for the entire water purification chain and provides total control of all functions, operating parameters and standard accessory components. Milli-Q HX systems compromise several water purification technologies, including complete pretreatment; advanced reserve osmosis (RO) and Evolutive Reject Adjustment (ERA™) water usage using quality optimization; Elix® electro-deionization (EDI) technology; and treatment by bactericidal UV lamp.
Milli-Q® HX 7000 SD All-In-One Water Purification Systems
Purify, store, distribute, monitor and control your Type 2 waters entirely from the new Milli-Q® HX 7000 SD series of systems. Milli-Q HX 7000 SD all-in-one water purification systems are designed to deliver the highest quality of pure water in a complete, compact, and fully-customizable format. From a single laboratory to an entire building floor, the Milli-Q HX 7000 SD range has the capacity to purify up to 3000 L/day from tap water, reliably feeding all of your Type 2 water needs.
Type 3 RO Water Purification
With advanced and complementary purification technologies, the Milli-Q® HR 7000 series yields reliably pure water at a constant flow rate and with reduced water consumption. Tap water is first pretreated according to your facility’s source water quality. Progard® cartridges efficiently remove particles, colloids, free chlorine and hardness. Additional carbon and ultrafiltration systems may be supplemented as per your feed water quality. Advanced reverse osmosis (RO) then removes 95-99% of ions, and 99% of all dissolved organics (>200 Da), microorganisms and particles.
RiOs™ Essential Water Purification System
RiOs™ Essential systems are ideal for laboratories needing reliable, constant production of Reverse Osmosis, RO (Type 3) water from potable tap water. RO pure water produced by RiOs™ Essential systems is ideal for non-critical laboratory applications.
Systems are available in 5, 8, 16 or 24 liter models to match the specific volume needs of your laboratory.
Clinical Water Purification Systems for Biomedical Labs
Our Analyzer Feed Systems (AFS) produce Clinical Laboratory Reagent Water (CLRW) with reduced water consumption, thereby significantly decreasing tap water expenses. As water is the most frequently used fluidic reagent onboard a clinical analyzer, the choice of water purification system is key to smooth and uninterrupted daily lab operations.
Milli-Q® CLX 7000 Connected High-Throughput Water Purification Clinical Analyzer
Milli-Q® CLX 7000 Connected High-Throughput Water Purification Clinical AnalyzerMilli-Q® CLX 7000 connected purification systems provide an economical and reliable high-performance solution for clinical analyzers with pure water needs up to 3000L daily. Water produced complies with the Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute® (CLSI) guideline for clinical lab reagent water (CLRW). It delivers consistent CLRW quality water, supports full data traceability, and promotes remote service and monitoring capabilities.
Microbiology & Biomonitoring
Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics
Merck, a market leader in industrial microbiology, uses the expertise and experience it has gained to develop culture media solutions for specific applications in a variety of industries. For the demanding applications in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, we provide culture media with consistent high quality for routine use.
Bioburden Testing of Non-Sterile Products
For bioburden testing in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, Merck provides a complete portfolio of products and services designed to ensure microbiologically safe drugs and cosmetics. Merck’s products range from traditional to rapid and are based on proven technologies such as membrane filtration and fluorescence-based, non-destructive detection.
Dehydrated Culture Media
Merck’s traditional dehydrated culture media are based on a unique granulation technology. This ensures that products provide maximum convenience and safety, while meeting the highest industry performance standards as described in ISO 11133.
Ready-to-use Media
Merck’s ready-to-use liquid and solid (agar) media cover all the areas in pharmaceutical and cosmetics manufacturing that require microbiological testing or monitoring. The convenient and industry-tailored range of ready-to-use media come in a large variety of formats, formulations and sizes. Merck offers all-purpose products and selective culture media for very specific applications or instruments, as part of user-friendly and reliable solutions that make it easier for you to comply with your regulatory environment while improving workflow and productivity.
Sterility Testing
For over 40 years, Merck have been the leaders of the field of sterility testing providing the highest quality products and defining the path forward. In 1974, Merck were the first to market the Steritest™ closed filtration device. Since then, Merck have been instrumental in raising industry standards by reducing the risk of false positive and negative results, increasing reliability and improving workflow for lab technicians around the world.
Environmental Air Monitoring
Environmental monitoring is essential in today’s pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries. It supports in producing safe products in accordance with international standards and guidelines and helps to prevent the release of potentially contaminated products. Merck’s complete portfolio for environmental monitoring solutions includes Active Air Monitoring, Media for Active Air Monitoring, Passive Air Monitoring, Surface & Personnel Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring in Isolators.
Environmental Surface Monitoring
Surface Swab, Surface Plate + Settle Plate
Monocyte Activation Test (MAT) for Pyrogen Detection
In the pharmaceutical industry, pyrogen detection is mandatory to avoid the life-threatening fever reactions that can be induced by both microbial and non-microbial substances.
Rapid Detection Methods for Bioburden
Rapid microbiological detection solutions from Merck for bioburden testing effectively address the diverse contamination issues which face the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, beverages and municipal / environmental water industries every day. Innovative rapid technologies provide several advantages over classical culture-based methods: earlier results, increased assay sensitivity, ease-of-use, excellent accuracy and reliability.
Food Industry
Merck provides its culture media in a wide variety of formats, formulations and sizes. Unlike traditional powdered media, our dehydrated and granulated culture media are specially formulated to minimize dust formation, component separation and clumping. Our complete portfolio for environmental monitoring covers particle counting, active and passive air monitoring as well as surface and personnel monitoring solutions. Our products are designed to enable efficient and cost effective environmental monitoring.
Food Sample Preparation
DilluCult + Homogenizer
Dehydrated Culture Media
Merck’s traditional dehydrated culture media are based on a superior granulation technology, which guarantees that our products provide maximum convenience and safety, while meeting the highest industry performance standards.
Ready-to-use Media
Microbial monitoring of food and beverage production plants is an important part of the HACCP principles to prevent food contaminations. Ready-to-use liquid and solid culture media from Merck are adapted to your decision criteria, from raw material qualification to finished product testing.
Environmental Air Monitoring
Environmental monitoring is essential in today’s industries. It not only avoids risks to consumers and producers, but also saves time and reduces costs. Merck provides a complete solution to you stay on the safe side. With high-quality products, excellent service and professional expertise, we provide more safety than meets the eye.
Environmental Surface Monitoring
MVP Icon + Swab Sampler
Pathogen & Spoilage Testing
In sensitive industries like food and beverage production, detecting pathogens or, spoilage microorganisms can become a matter of urgency – to ensure consumer safety, avoid damage to your brands and minimize the associated costs. As an expert in these fields, Merck offers dependable, high-quality packages for all your food testing requirements. Benefit from our smart and convenient solutions to optimize your processes.
MC Media Pads
What if you could use fewer handling steps for your indicator organism testing, without compromising your results? Enumeration and detection of microbial contamination in food and beverage products is key but can be time consuming and complex. Streamline your workflow by trying Merck’s new color-coded MC-Media Pad® for rapid and convenient microbial testing.
Water & Beverages
Routine testing of water for human consumption is essential to protect the health of consumers. Merck supplies media, membranes, filter funnels, filtration devices, hardware, and accessories to provide you with the right solution for monitoring microbial contamination in drinking water.
Bioburden
For bioburden testing (including microbial limit testing) of non-sterile raw materials, water and finished products, Merck provides all the culture media required to detect viable aerobic microorganisms. The ready–to-use solid and liquid media are prepared according to the corresponding, harmonized standards of the European, US and Japanese Pharmacopeias.
Ready-to-use Culture Media
Merck provides a complete portfolio of ready-to-use (RTU) culture media for microbiological bioburden testing. Culture media based on Casein Soy Bean Digest or Sabouraud Dextrose are recommended for the microbial enumeration tests TAMC (total aerobic microbial count) and TYMC (total yeast/molds count). Specialized culture media are available for the detection of specified aerobic microorganisms.
Environmental Air Monitoring
Merck offers a comprehensive portfolio of environmental monitoring solutions that covers Active Air Monitoring, Passive Air Monitoring, Surface & Personnel Monitoring, Particle Counting.
Environmental Surface Monitoring
MVP Icon + Swab Sampler
Dehydrated Culture Media
Dehydrated raw materials, such as peptones, agar-agar and extracts, as well as supplements form part of Merck’s extensive portfolio of culture media products for industrial microbiology. Merck’s extensive range of quality controlled culture media ingredients allows manufacturers to produce reliable and user friendly products.
MC Media Pads
What if you could use fewer handling steps for your indicator organism testing, without compromising your results? Enumeration and detection of microbial contamination in food and beverage products is key but can be time consuming and complex. Streamline your workflow by trying Merck’s new color-coded MC-Media Pad® for rapid and convenient microbial testing.
Water & Food Chemical Analysis
Biopharma Solutions
Instruments & Consumables
To help you navigate the highly regulated and complex pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, Merck offers a wide range of collaborative, comprehensive support services to meet your unique manufacturing and regulatory requirements. Merck provides you with support through all stages, from the system installation and qualification, to the training and maintenance needed to keep your equipment running smoothly and efficiently – for accurate and reproducible performance day after day.
Integrity Tester
The Integritest® 5 is an easy-to-use, portable, and fully-automated instrument that verifies the integrity of filters or processing equipment. MilliporeSigma introduced the first commercial automated integrity test instrument more than 25 years ago; our latest model now incorporates an improved algorithm to simplify test creation and accelerate test completion.
Sterile Filtration
With Merck as your sterile filtration partner, you will have the peace of mind that comes from working with the industry leader that has over 50 years of expertise in sterile filtration and market leading products including Aervent® (PTFE), Durapore® (PVDF) and Millipore Express® (PES) membranes. Combined, Merck’s membranes have processed billions of sterile doses.
Ultrafiltration
Merck has almost 40 years of experience with the most successful drug manufacturers in the world, helping them to ensure successful and robust ultrafiltration processes.
Clarification
Merck offers process solutions drawn from over 40 years of experience working closely with the most successful drug manufacturers in the world to ensure successful and robust clarification.
Vaccine Production
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Viral Safety
Regulatory guidance advocates virus control at various stages of the drug manufacturing process, directing that you:
- Select and test source materials for the absence of virus
- Test the capacity of the production process to remove or inactivate virus
- Test the product at appropriate stages of production for detectable virus
Partnering with a company that can assist you through all of these critical steps is an important factor. Explore our areas including our Virus Filtration products, to see how we can help ensure viral safety.
Beverage Production
When it comes to your beverage process, you need comprehensive microbial management to produce high quality beverages without compromising flavor, consistency, or safety. Merck gives you the proven tools, technologies, and expertise to optimize your process performance, monitor product safety, and maintain product quality while meeting regulatory compliance.
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