Sage Science, Inc. develops laboratory instruments and consumables for life sciences research and diagnostic laboratory markets. With a focus on providing new systems to streamline and improve sample preparation workflows for DNA and protein analysis, the firm offers BluePippin DNA size selection system, a preparative electrophoresis platform that separates and extracts DNA fragments and Pippin Prep DNA size separation system, a preparative electrophoresis platform that separates and extracts DNA fragments. In 2014 Sage Science released a new electrophoresis platform, the SageELF for whole sample fractionation of DNA or proteins, and the PippinHT, a high-throughput version of the BluePippin.The company's products are used in various applications, such as paired-end sequencing, preparation of adapter-ligated cDNAs of micro RNAs, bead template preparation, and ChIP-seq applications.