News & Announcements
Upcoming 2019 Ordering Deadlines
Important ordering deadlines for 2019 shipment. Any orders placed after the specified dates will not ship until the 2020 year.
Upcoming Ordering Deadlines & Holiday Closure: 2019 U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday
UTEX will be closed in observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday starting at 12:00 PM CST on Tuesday, November 26th — Sunday, December 1st, 2019. Orders placed after 5:00 PM CST on Wednesday, November 20th through Wednesday, December 4th, will not be shipped until Monday, December 9th. Orders t...
October 25th | Teaching Kit: NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars | H. pluvialis (Space-flo...
UTEX 2505 Haematococcus pluvialis hitched a ride on the SpaceX Dragon Cargo Spacecraft thanks to Lyndsay Baker, a graduate of Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) in Iowa, to test how the strain would react in a microgravity environment. This alga, when stressed, creates an antioxidant with ...
Fall 2019 | Updates to the UTEX Photobioreactors
The UTEX Photobioreactors have been refreshed with an upgraded design. We've swapped some of the plastic components of the original photobioreactor with metal ones, making the updated unit longer lasting and reusable!
Fall 2019 | Shipping Updates
UTEX is moving away from our current catch-all-shipping price system that is based on shipping regions or zones, and to a new real-time carrier calculated shipping system.Â
Scheduled Website Maintenance: October 24, 2019 | utex.org v2.0
The UTEX website will be down for planned maintenance and updates on Thursday, October 24th. The website will be unavailable during this time, but the UTEX Help Desk System and FAQs will still be available and accessible to answer any questions you might have. We apologize for any inconveniences ...
Fall 2019 | Upcoming US Academic & Government discount changes
We wanted to give all of our U.S. Non-Profit Academic & Government customers a heads up about an upcoming change to the discount system. Reviewing this information, creating a UTEX Customer Account, and/or submitting your discount request early will help provide a smoother transition when it ...
Upcoming UTEX Holiday Closure: U.S. Labor Day - September 2, 2019
UTEX will be closed on Monday, September 2nd, in observance of the US Holiday, Labor Day. Orders that would normally ship out on Monday will be sent out on Tuesday, September 3rd. Algae Express orders that are placed on Friday, August 30th, thru Monday, September 2nd, will not be processed and sh...
Algal Resources Collection (ARC)
The Algal Resources Collection (ARC) specializes in the maintenance and mass culturing of harmful algal bloom (HAB) species and other sensitive, slow-growing microalgae. The ARC maintains and distributes nearly 350 microalgal strains making it a valuable resource for both the HAB and biotechnolog...
Upcoming 2019 UTEX Holiday Closure: U.S. Independence Day
UTEX will be closed on Thursday, July 4th, in observance of the U.S. Holiday, Independence Day. Algae Express orders received after 12:00 PM (noon) CST on Wednesday, July 3rd, will not be processed and shipped until Monday, July 8th.
New at UTEX! DNA Barcoding Teaching Kit
The identification of microalgae has traditionally been performed by the use of light and electron microscopy in combination with growth kinetics, assessment of nutritional requirements, and metabolic product characterization. These can be extremely effective tools in the hands of experienced ph...
2019 UTEX Algae Express. Refreshed.
Newly updated list of the Top 10 most requested strains at UTEX available with next day shipping!
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