Millipore Announces Neurite Outgrowth Assay

Billerica, Massachusetts—August 7, 2007—Millipore Corporation today announced the availability of its Neurite Outgrowth Assay, the newest assay kit in Millipore’s extensive drug discovery product line. Using high content screening for imaging and analysis of neurite outgrowth and neuronal cell morphology, the kit offers a complete solution for specificity labeling and neuronal cell bodies for High Content Imaging.

The kit utilizes high-quality, validated, target-specific detection reagents for profiling in a variety of species, including human, mouse and rat. Large scale screening is simplified through the assay reagents 24-hour stability at room temperature.

Its primary antibody is immunofluorescence-based to specifically label neurites and neuronal cell bodies in heterogeneous cell populations. High sensitivity-generating images with high signal-to-background ratios facilitate subsequent High Content Analysis, making the kit ideal for screening both inducers and inhibitors of neurite outgrowth neurotoxins.

Millipore’s Bioscience Division provides innovative tools, services and biological reagents that drive advancements in biomedical and academic research as well as support the discovery and development of new pharmaceuticals. The product portfolio has been further enhanced with the 2006 addition of Chemicon^®, Upstate^® and Linco^® product lines, allowing Millipore to provide the most complete offering of life science tools on the market. Our customers work in leading research laboratories across a variety of industries throughout the world. Millipore improves their laboratory productivity and efficiency through optimized workflows. For more information, please contact Millipore Tech Service at 1-800-548-7853 or 951-676-8080 or visit www.millipore.com.

About Millipore

Millipore is a leading provider of products and services that improve productivity in laboratory research and bioprocessing manufacturing sites. Through its broad product portfolio, the Company drives growth through innovation and delivers higher value-added applications to the marketplace. Millipore experts have a comprehensive understanding of customers’ research, which results in superior tools, technologies and services. The Company is part of the S&P 500 index and employs approximately 5,800 employees in more than 47 offices worldwide. For additional information on Millipore Corporation, please visit www.millipore.com.

Millipore, Chemicon, Upstate, and Linco are registered trademarks of Millipore Corporation.

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