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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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qPCR inventor and his NZ connection

Originally published in May, 2014 ‘”we were interested to see if we could do it from hair . . .and we were the only ones around doing PCR” So you might have read the blog entry about the visit to see the first thermalcycler “Mr Cycle” at the Smithsonian. You haven’t? Sorry, another old blog […]

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The solution (of your primers)

Another old blog article – this one written originally in July 2010 : As PCR primers become less expensive, is there less care being paid to them? Throw in a diluent,a quick vortex and dilute for PCR? I hope this doesn’t sound too familiar because even in these days of real-time qPCR and various probe […]

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This PCR is extremely Wittwer

OK, confession time. I used to work some crazy hours in order to fit some library screening into a part time job while finishing my degree. No, that’s not the confession – more, when I put the PCR on I would sometimes look out the window and note the wind direction. Occasionally, very occasionally (*cough*) if the […]

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Killing that DNA

You’ve done the hard work – you’ve got good quality RNA. You’ve seen ribosomal bands on a gel (or *cough* Fragment Analyzer). A good RQN/RIN (if that’s what you go by) and everything’s great. Now to get rid of the DNA Quick check (perform a PCR directly on appropriate amount of RNA) and often there’s […]