Lake Sinai Virus in bees
We always find ourselves working on things that can harbour a lot of different viruses – and bees definitely fall Read More
April 10, 2024
What if my business used PCR testing?
What would that mean for your business? Would it even be useful? The answer to those questions depend on what Read More
August 30, 2023
John’s thoughts on the Honeybee Symposium & ApiNZ Conference
Two conferences back to back – or more, the 1 day Honeybee research symposium followed by the ApiNZ conference. Part Read More
August 2, 2023
qPCR meeting in Germany
Not quite the last minute – but not too far off – and I was registered to attend the qPCR Read More
May 18, 2023
Upcoming Quantabio webinar: introducing next generation of PCR amplification technology
Tuesday, 16th May 2023, 11AM to 12PM EST REGISTER NOW Significant improvements to PCR amplification enables better performance for a Read More
May 8, 2023
Vale Dr Nick Wong
Farewell Nick. A scientist who passed away early February. A bioinformatician. But not only a bioinformatician. Everyone who knew (or Read More
March 1, 2023
Kiwi Ingenuity: Bigger is not Necessarily Better at Solving Complex Scientific Problems
Quantabio, a supplier of ours for over 10 years of market leading DNA & RNA reagents, recently profiled John (our Read More
February 1, 2023
Watch – how to swab your hive for the Foster American Foulbrood (AFB) method
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to watch & learn rather than reading instructions. We had a lot of fun Read More
January 26, 2023
Using the BMS Myra for repetitive pipetting …
Recently we’ve had a project in our lab to test several hundred samples for a range of viruses – all Read More
October 30, 2022
Snap!
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 […]