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ICELL8 technology keeps cardiovascular research pumping
Date: May 5, 2020
Categories: Automation | NGS | Research News | Single-cell
The beat goes on with the ICELL8 system and cardiomyocyte isolation in two new research papers.
Women's Networking Event at AGBT 2020
Date: March 26, 2020
Categories: Careers
Dr. Suvarna Gandlur shares her experience of cohosting AGBT's Women's Networking Event for the second time.
Detecting infectious disease threats in a changing climate
Date: March 5, 2020
Categories: PCR
See how multiplex PCR with our Ex Taq HS and PrimeSTAR HS polymerases was used to detect Leptospira bacteria and identify animal carriers in water samples.
Unraveling the world of microorganisms
Date: January 29, 2020
Categories: NGS | Research News
Learn how the authors used host nucleic acid depletion to get meaningful metagenomic NGS results from human CSF surrogate samples.
Microbiomes in the brain and belly
Date: January 13, 2020
Categories: PCR | Research News
Learn more about how researchers are uncovering microbiotic influences in CNS disorders and pregnancy.
Small but mighty: gaining insight into pulmonary arterial hypertension with purified exosomes
Date: December 18, 2019
Categories: Research News | Translational Research
Learn how researchers are using new exosome purification techniques to investigate the mechanism of a life-threatening disease.
Be part of the solution: total RNA-seq from human biofluids and extracellular vesicles
Date: November 22, 2019
Categories: Cancer | NGS | Research News
The SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v2 - Pico Input Mammalian provides a robust new method for RNA-seq studies from low-input biofluid samples.
Seq-ing the small: metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
Date: August 16, 2019
Categories: NGS | Research News
See how our ThruPLEX DNA-seq and SMARTer RNA-seq kits are powering large-scale studies of microbiomes.
The SMARTer approach to RNA-seq of FFPE tissues
Date: July 2, 2018
Categories: NGS | Research News
Learn why the SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v2 - Pico Input Mammalian is the best kit for RNA-seq of FFPE samples.
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