The world has been on high alert following the newly reported cases of Monkeypox. Several people have lamented about this virus, hoping it won’t be as serious a pandemic as the COVID19. The World Health Organization (WHO) was notified on 7 May 2022 of a monkeypox case in a person who travelled from the United … Read more
Taq polymerase is the tried and true standard when it comes to PCR, but that doesn’t mean it’s the most accurate polymerase for high-sensitivity applications. Instead, alternative enzymes, known as high-fidelity polymerases, offer higher accuracies in the amplicons resulting from PCR thanks to a combination of more stringent base reading and proofreading activities. While you … Read more
Hi Guys, we wanted to let you know about a cause we recently came across that we’d love you, as our customers, to get involved with. The Reagent Project is a non profit organisation based in New York who collect in date reagents and lightly used lab equipment and donate them to scientists around … Read more
Homogenisation is a popular method of cell disruption through lysis (breaking up) the sample using a homogeniser. This is achieved through mixing at high speeds in tubes with either steel, glass (silica) or zirconium beads added to grind the sample and release subcellular contents of DNA, RNA and proteins. There are lots of homogenisers on … Read more
Some of the most well-known and arguably most important scientific research in our recent past has been born from a long and ongoing swell in international collaboration. As 25th April is also international “DNA Day”, the day on which, over 60 years ago, the structure of the DNA double helix was identified and published by … Read more