Years ago there was cow’s milk and if you wanted a change, cow’s milk. Today, aside from the growth in Read More

Farewell Nick. A scientist who passed away early February. A bioinformatician. But not only a bioinformatician. Everyone who knew (or Read More

Honey yields are predicted to be well down this season compared with the 10-year average of 19,000 tonnes. Final figures Read More

More than 3000 beehives had to be destroyed in the year to May 2022, as the honey industry responded to Read More

Quantabio, a supplier of ours for over 10 years of market leading DNA & RNA reagents, recently profiled John (our Read More

Sometimes it’s nice to be able to watch & learn rather than reading instructions. We had a lot of fun Read More

We’ve recently launched two new beer tests for our brewery customers. These are for diastatic yeast and for the gene Read More

Recently we’ve had a project in our lab to test several hundred samples for a range of viruses – all Read More

Designing primers for your high resolution melting is easy enough. A quick run with some known genotypes …. and look for the melting curve differences among samples. Too simple. But what about the temperature-neutral SNP’s? The what? A number of SNP’s ( ~ 4% in the human genome) have no affect on the melting temperature […]

Our technical director was asked to comment on the cost of pre-departure COVID tests as a counterpoint to Michael Walsh, from Moneyhub’s, comments that the PCR test in New Zealand is too expensive.