Products Overview - TCS Biosciences - Life Sciences Supplies

Animal Blood, Serum & Plasma

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At TCS Biosciences Ltd, we have gained an outstanding reputation for service and satisfaction through dedication to our first business principle: quality.

Blood from our donor animals continues to play a vital role as a nutritional supplement in microbiological culture media, and also functions as a diagnostic indicator in media and test systems for clinical diagnosis.

Our specialised approach to quality assurance extends from animal husbandry through collection to processing and packaging, to ensure the consistent quality of our products.

Cell Culture Reagents & Supplements

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TCS Biosciences has been at the forefront of delivering high-quality products, empowering researchers and industries with products they can trust. We are proud to build on that legacy with the launch of our complete cell culture solutions.

Available products:

Animal-Free Recombinant Proteins
Dissolvable and Customisable Smart Microcarriers
Animal Serum

Serving the needs of clinical, research and industrial scientists since 1965.

Clinical Solutions

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We offer a comprehensive range of clinical solutions designed to support laboratories in diagnostics, infection control, histology, and microbiological quality assurance.

Food, Beverage & Industrial Microbiology

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Selectrol^® micro-organisms endorsed by the UKHSA Culture Collections and Sample Collection - Swabs, Sponges and Enrichment Media

Human Biospecimens

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Our biospecimen range supports research, diagnostics, biomanufacturing, and cell and gene therapy with high-quality, reliable materials.

QC Organisms & Controls

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Microbiological Quality Control Organisms

Selectrol^® Micro-organisms

Selectrol^® is a fully traceable and cost effective range of first generation micro-organisms which have predictable biochemical reactions, making it ideal for a variety of quality control and testing applications.

Quality control of culture media, staining reactions, biochemical profiling.
Determination of antibiotic concentrations in blood, serum or CSF samples.
Antibiotic susceptibility testing controls, whether by disc diffusion or serial dilution.

Selectrol^® is a first generation derivative of original stock cultures obtained exclusively from the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC^®) or National Collection of Pathogenic Fungi (NCPF^®). Where appropriate other international strain designations, such as the ATCC^®, are listed for reference purposes only.

Selectrol^® strains are presented as water-soluble freeze-dried discs with most strains being available in packs of 10 or 25 discs. Selectrol^® is versatile, and can be inoculated directly onto solid media or dissolved in an appropriate broth.

More about NCTC Cultures

Certificates of Analysis are available to download from our website: www.tcsbiosciences.co.uk.

To ensure you have the most recent Selectrol^® listing, please contact our Customer Service team.

Selectrol^® discs are manufactured under license from UK Health Security Agency.

NCTC^® and NCPF^® are trademarks of UK Health Security Agency.
ATCC^® strains are listed for reference only.
ATCC^® is a registered trademark of the American Type Culture Collection.

Water & Environmental

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Our water and environmental solutions support monitoring, detection, and analysis with products for algal toxin detection, bacterial and biofilm testing, environmental sampling, flow cytometry, and microbiological quality control.