Primers & Probes

The mission of LGC Biosearch is to develop (and deliver) the highest quality products.  Global leaders in oligonucleotides, LGC Biosearch is committed to stringent quality control standards and full traceability.

Read the full range of products available from dnature

Every Friday we collate orders for primers & probes and send them to our supplier, LGC Biosearch.  Simply download the order form below, fill it it in and send to [email protected]

We place the order and send to you once it’s arrived so you don’t need to worry about international courier fees or customs clearance.

Urgent orders are available on request.

LGC Biosearch order form

LGC Biosearch order form (excel)

LGC Biosearch Probes and oligos brochure

The story about Biosearch

PCR and Biosearch are tightly linked. Biosearch Technologies can be traced back to 1978 when President and CEO, Ron Cook, PhD founded “Biosearch,Inc.” to supply research tools to the nascent biotechnology industry. In the 1980s,

Biosearch developed and manufactured automated, solid-phase DNA synthesizers, including the SAM I. Ron provided one of these instruments to a friend in a biotech company and that friend started looking for ways to use the stream of oligos now available.

That friend was of course Kary Mullis and Ron was name-checked in Kary’s Nobel laureate speech.

“My friend Ron Cook, who had founded Biosearch, and produced the first successful commercial DNA synthesis machine, was the only person I remember during that summer who shared my enthusiasm for the reaction. He knew it would be good for the oligonucleotide business. Maybe that’s why he believed it. Or maybe he’s a rational chemist with an intact brain. He’s one of my best friends now, so I have to disqualify myself from claiming any really objective judgement regarding him. Perhaps I should have followed his advice, but then things would have worked out differently and I probably wouldn’t be here on the beach in La Jolla writing this, which I enjoy. Maybe I would be rich in Tahiti. He suggested one night at his house that since no one at Cetus had taken it seriously, I should resign my job, wait a little while, make it work, write a patent, and get rich. By rich he wasn’t imagining $30,0000,000. Maybe one or two. The famous chemist Albert Hofmann was at Ron’s that night. He had invented LSD in 1943. At the time he didn’t realize what he had done. It only dawned on him slowly, and then things worked their way out over the years like no one would have ever predicted, or could have controlled by forethought and reason.”