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Scalable Nucleic Acid Purification for Growing Labs 

Meet Maxwell® RSC at
Umeå Biotech Incubator


Maxwell® is used by thousants of scientists around the world since 2005.

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The Maxwell® RSC is your go-to benchtop instrument for automated DNA and RNA purification – reliable, efficient, and surprisingly affordable. Designed to save time and reduce variability, it handles a wide range of sample types like blood, tissue, cells, FFPE, buccal swabs, plant material, and even viral samples in plasma. Whether you're in early discovery or scaling up, Maxwell gives you the flexibility and consistency you need to keep things moving – without taking up too much space, time or budget.

Why not try your samples on Maxwell at UBI?

The Maxwell® RSC is set up in lab 123A at the UBI facility. Curious to see it in action?
Feel free to reach out to Christin Grundström at christin.grundstrom@ubi.se.  

If you want to convince yourself, why not run your own samples on the Maxwell at UBI? Just reach out, and I’ll make sure the right kit is ready for you. Below you’ll find an overview of the sample types and compatible kits available on the Maxwell at UBI. Prefer a bit of guidance? I’m happy to help. The instrument will be at UBI until the end of September 2025 – so don’t wait too long!

Contact me in English eller på svenska – whatever works best for you.

Sarah Westgren

Sales Territory: Mid-North Sweden
+46 70 35 35 800
sarah.westgren@promega.com

Contact me for a trial kit
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Works With Many Sample Types

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DNA Extraction

DNA purified with the Maxwell® RSC System is compatible with a wide range of downstream applications such as Sanger and next generation sequencing, arrays and digital PCR.

Blood

Maxwell® RSC Whole Blood DNA Kit »
Extracts DNA from larger sample sizes (up to 500µl) of whole blood without preprocessing

Maxwell® RSC Blood DNA Kit »
Extracts higher yields of DNA from up to 300µl of whole blood following Proteinase K treatment

Maxwell® RSC Buffy Coat DNA »
Extracts DNA from buffy coat from blood

Maxwell® RSC Genomic DNA Kit »
Extracts high-quality DNA from whole blood, buffy coat, bone marrow, buccal swabs, cells and tissue

Buccal Swabs

Maxwell® RSC Buccal Swab DNA Kit »
Extracts DNA from buccal swab

Maxwell® RSC Genomic DNA Kit »
Extracts high-quality DNA from whole blood, buffy coat, bone marrow, buccal swabs, cells and tissue

Fecal Samples

Maxwell® RSC Fecal Microbiome DNA Kit »
Extracts DNA from human and mammalian feces.

Cells

Maxwell® RSC Cultured Cells DNA Kit »
Extracts DNA from up to 5x10 mammalian tissue culture cells and 2x10 bacterial cells

Maxwell® RSC Cell DNA Purification Kit »
Extracts DNA from samples containing less than 10,000 cells such as amniotic fluid, cerebral spinal fluid and cell supernatants

Maxwell® RSC Genomic DNA Kit »
Extracts high-quality DNA from whole blood, buffy coat, bone marrow, buccal swabs, cells and tissue

FFPE

Maxwell® RSC DNA FFPE Kit »
Extracts DNA from formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue sections

Maxwell® FFPE Plus LEV DNA Purification Kits »
Extracts DNA from FFPE samples with comparable performance to the Maxwell® 16 DNA FFPE LEV Plus Kit

Tissue

Maxwell® RSC Genomic DNA Kit »
Extracts high-quality DNA from whole blood, buffy coat, bone marrow, buccal swabs, cells and tissue

Maxwell® RSC Tissue DNA Kit »
Extracts DNA from 50mg of tissue

Plants and Food

Maxwell® RSC Plant DNA Kit »
Extracts DNA from a range of plant sample types including soybean, corn and Arabidopsis

Maxwell® RSC PureFood GMO and Authentication Kit »
Extracts DNA from a wide range of food sample types including soybean, corn, canola, fish, beef and pork

Maxwell® RSC PureFood Pathogen Kit »
Extracts bacterial DNA from a wide range of food sample types for use in NGS, serotyping and identification of spoilage organisms

Saliva Tubes

Maxwell® RSC Stabilized Saliva DNA Kit »
Extracts DNA from stabilized saliva tubes

Plasma

Maxwell® RSC ccfDNA Plasma Kit »
Extracts ccfDNA from plasma

Maxwell® RSC Viral Total Nucleic Acid Purification Kit »
Extracts viral total nucleic acid (RNA and DNA) from serum, plasma and other samples

RNA Extraction

RNA purified with the Maxwell® RSC System is compatible with downstream applications, such as RT-PCR.
 

Blood

Maxwell® RSC simplyRNA Blood Kit »
Purifies total RNA from 2.5ml of fresh whole blood

Cells

Maxwell® RSC simplyRNA Cells Kit »
Purifies total RNA from fresh or frozen cells

FFPE

Maxwell® RSC RNA FFPE Kit »
Extracts RNA from formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue sections

Plants

Maxwell® RSC Plant RNA Kit »
Extracts RNA from a range of plant sample types including soybean, corn and Arabidopsis

Tissue

Maxwell® RSC simplyRNA Tissue Kit »
Purifies total RNA from up to 20mg of tissue

Maxwell® RSC miRNA Tissue Kit »
Purifies total RNA, including miRNA, from mammalian tissue samples

Plasma

Maxwell® RSC Viral Total Nucleic Acid Purification Kit »
Extracts viral total nucleic acid (RNA and DNA) from serum, plasma and other samples

Maxwell® RSC miRNA Plasma and Serum Kit »
Purifies high-quality, amplifiable miRNA from plasma, serum or enriched exosomes

No matter your sample type, workflow size, or research focus – clinical, forensic, applied, or basic – there’s a Maxwell® instrument that fits. Choose the format that suits your needs: 1–16 or 1–48 samples per run. And the best part? Maxwell chemistry is future-proof – the same trusted reagents are compatible with our high-throughput robotic systems, so you can scale up when you're ready. At UBI the Maxwell RSC is available to you.
Maxwell RSC Instrument specifications
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