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Automating DNA Isolation From Cereal Crops With Tecan's Magnetic Bead Technology - Read More

Date Added: July 02, 2008 04:48:24 AM
Molecular biologists at the Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry Laimburg in Northern Italy, have developed a semi-automated procedure for extracting and isolating high quality DNA from cereal crops, using the Te-MagS(TM) magnetic separation module from Tecan (SWX: TECN). The researchers are performing large-scale microsatellite marker analysis to genetically characterize local cereal ...

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