Apr 2008

KOMA homepage in Japanese version was completed and started being
operated.

 

 

Apr 2008

 KOMA attended the 2008 Experimental Biology conference (FASEB) that was
held on April 5-8 in San Diego, USA.

KOMA attended the 2008 AACR conference that was held on April 12-16 in
San Diego, USA.

 

 

Mar 2008

 2008 New KOMA catalog (printed version) was released. Also, minicatalog
(version April, 2008) was printed as well.

Nov 2007

 KOMA attended the 2007 Neuroscience Meeting that was held on November
4-7, 2007 in San Diego, USA.

 

 

Oct 2007

 KOMA attended the 2007 Biotechnica that was held on October 9-11, 2007,
in Hannover, Germany.

 

 
Sep 2007 The fluorescent nanoparticles for stem cell staining called NFP-STEM was
released. NFPs are easily uptaken by endocytosis of stem cells and remain
within the cell, so it helps to distinguish stem cells from others as well as
continuous image monitoring of stem cells.

 

 
Aug 2007 KOMA released the Protein Pre-Cast Gel Complete Kit. It provides 6 key
components for 10 assays of SDS-PAGE gel running.

 

 
Apr 2007 KOMA attended the 2007 AACR conference that was held on April 14-18, 2007,
in LA, USA.

 

 
Jan 2007 KOMA attended the Arab Health 2007 exhibition that was held on January 28-
February 2, 2007, in Dubai, U.A.E.

KOMA's pre-cast gel facility was expanded, so various kinds of mini pre-cast gel
such as EzWay-PAG, Tris-Glycine, Tricine gels for protein separation are
available in production.

2007 KOMA catalog is available in a printed version as well. 

Dec 2006 KOMA was approved as an Inno-Biz (a compound of "Innovation" and
"Business") Company by the Korean government. Inno-Biz is a certificate
system given to a company which has a potential competitiveness in
technology and innovation.

Also, KOMA received another one-year extended approval from the Korean
government to pursue its bioventure technologies.

 

 
Oct 2006 KOMA attended the 2006 SFN (Neuroscience) exhibition that was held on October 14-18, 2006, in Atlanta, GA, USA.

 

 
Sep 2006 KOMA attended the trade exhibition of 2006 AnalyticaChina that was held on September 19-21, 2006, in Shanghai, China.

 

 
Aug 2006 KOMA will be supported from Korean government for the project, Development of mass production methods for long shelf life polyacrylamide precasting gel,
for 2 years.
   
Jul 2006 KOMA released upgraded ELISA kits named pink-ONE ELISA kits which contain one-step prestained TMB as a substrate. It is conveneint for tracking reagent
addition during pipetting of TMB.

Also, the unique Protein elution kit was developed. Unlike the conventional eletro-elution method, this system helps protein elution from SDS-PAGE gels using a simple device only.
   
Apr 2006 Development of Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) detection and semi-quantitative Kit with multiplex liquid assay system :
The project will be partially supported from small and medium business administration of Korea for two years. Medical college of Catholic Univ. Seoul, Korea and Samil Pharm. Seoul, Korea are our partner for this project.
The targets will be the high risk types in population, regardless of disease status.
   
Apr 2006 KOMA attended the trade exhibition of 2006 AACR that was held on April 1-5,
2006, in Washington DC, USA.
   
Feb 2006 The electrophoresis kit was newly released. The EzCell and EzBlot were designed specifically for mini-gel electrophoresis. This system is very convenient and simple to set up and run gels. KOMA Pre-cast gels can be used in the EzCell unit, also other gels such as the Invitrogen and Novex gels
(10cm x 10cm) are compatible with this system.
   
Feb 2006 KOMA attended the trade exhibition of 2006 ArabLAB that was held on February 13-16 2006, in Dubai, U.A.E.
Nov 2005 KOMA scientists had been participated in annual meeting of AMP (Assocoation for molecular pathology) held at Scottsdale Arizona USA in November 2005. They presented a poster titled "the application of selective oligonucleotide array (SOA) technology for identification of leukemic translocation."
   

Oct 2005

KOMA attended the trade exhibition of 2005 Biotechnica that was held on October 18-20, 2005, in Hannover, Germany.

 

 

Sep 2005

KOMA has developed and launched EzWay DNA methylation detection kit and Ezway PCR cloning kit in September. EzWay DNA methylation detection kit can be used for MSP (methylation specific PCR), methylation detection DNA chip, COBRA (combined bisulfite restriction assay), Methylate and Bisulfite sequencing.Ezway PCR cloning kit is good for direct cloning of PCR products. The multiple cloning site is flanked by restriction EcoRI and BstXI restriction enzyme sites, allowing two options for removal of the insert with a single digest. Ampicilin and Kanamycin resistance genes are included.

 

 

May 2005

KOMA received a research grant from the Korean government to develop methods of early ovarian cancer diagnosis. The multiplex system will be employed for this purpose and Dr. WS Ahn of the Catholic Medical School, Seoul, Korea will collaborate to develop this system.

 

 

May 2005

KOMA attended the trade exhibition of BioExpo Japan that was held on May 18-20, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. KOMA introduced a new microarray technologies for gene aberration during a partnering forum.

Nov 2004

KOMA received a two-year extended approval from the Korean government to pursue its bioventure technologies.

 

 

Sep 2004

KOMA was awarded a research fund from Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries  with Pukyong National University, Pusan Korea. Analysis of a chlorella viral genome and characterization of an encoded protein will be the main research topics for this project.

 

 

Sep 2004

KOMA has developed DNA polymerase for Hot Start polymerase chain reaction with government financial support. It will take one year to develop the novel system with the collaboration of BQ. 

 

Dec 2003

KOMA attended the trade exhibition of CIA2003 that was held on December 2-5, 2003 in Singapore, and had a lot of interest from buyers.

   

Oct 2003

KOMA attended the trade exhibition of the Japan Biochemistry meeting that was held on October 16-18, 2003 in Yokohama, Japan.

Jun 2002

The Korean government approved KOMA as a technology based bioventure company. KOMA can continue R&D with the privileges of a bioventure company for two years.

   
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