Grace Bio-Labs is a global supplier of pharmaceutical, biomedical, and biochemical research products based in Bend, Oregon, United States. They develop the thin-cast nitrocellulose biochip (aka: nitrocellulose slide, nitrocellulose film slide)[1][2] and the modern hybridization and incubation chambers for glass microscope slides.[3]
Originally based near Detroit, Michigan, and founded by Charles McGrath in 1986, Grace Bio Labs relocated to Bend, Oregon in May, 1990.
With the aid of SBIR funding, Grace Bio-Labs was built on two main product types. The first is the incubation chamber for cell culture and analysis; the second is the ONCYTE Nitrocellulose Film Slide. Their incubation and hybridization chambers are fluid delivery and containment products that increase sensitivity and efficiency in fluorescence and color-based protein and cell analyte assays.[4]
The ONCYTE Nitrocellulose microporous film (nitrocellulose slide) is a biochip platform that captures and protects the 3-dimensional (tertiary) structure of biological material. Originally designed for tissue printing[1] and cell lysate capture, the film has flourished in proteomics. It is commonly used in automated and manual protein microarrays, and continues to increase throughput in proteomics research.[5]
Grace Bio-Labs sells to university research laboratories, biotech companies, private researchers and pharmaceutical companies. They mainly distribute to North America, Western and Central Europe, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.