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TOCRIS BIOSCIENCE LAUNCHES NEW UNIQUE AND AFFORDABLE SCREENING LIBRARY

Dec 13th, 2007 - Tocris Bioscience announced today that it had added a new library to their existing screening range. Tocriscreen™ Total is a fully annotated small molecule library for high throughput screening (HTS), high content screening (HCS) and chemical biology applications. The majority of the compounds in this library are unique to the new Tocriscreen Total, setting this collection apart from competitor’s products.

The introduction of Tocriscreen Total offers researchers a library of compounds with a wide coverage of pharmacological space, useful for HCS and the exciting new fields of chemical biology and chemical genetics.

Robert Felix, Product Manager, said, “The compounds included in the new collection are all biologically active, exceptionally high purity compounds from the Tocris product range. In addition, the compounds are supplied pre-dissolved in DMSO, saving researchers valuable time and resources.“

Laurence Ede, Managing Director, added, “We are very pleased to be adding this product to the Tocris range. Tocriscreen Total exemplifies the outstanding quality of the Tocris brand and will no doubt be a valuable resource for scientists worldwide.“

The full Tocriscreen range on offer from Tocris can be viewed at www.tocris.com/tocriscreen.

About Tocris Bioscience

Tocris Bioscience (www.tocris.com) is a leading supplier of high performance chemicals, peptides and antibodies, with customers in all of the worlds’ major pharmaceutical companies, universities and research institutes. The Company is committed to making new life science discoveries possible by providing the highest performing and most innovative range of research reagents.

Tocris Bioscience products are used by scientists carrying out non-clinical research in fields such as cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and obesity. The Company's catalogue of over 2000 reagents represents a unique collection of novel, exclusive and licensed research tools and is sent to more than 50,000 scientists worldwide annually. A major source of key signal transduction reagents and arguably the world leader in the supply of neuroscience reagents, the Company won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise (International Business) in 2002.

Tocris Bioscience is the trading name for the companies in the Tocris Cookson Group. Tocris Cookson Ltd is privately held and headquartered in Bristol, UK. Its US subsidiary, Tocris Cookson Inc, is located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. There are approximately 60 employees in the Group worldwide, operating out of three sites in the UK and one in the US.

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