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Performance validation
- PCR Detection threshold sensitivity: miniPCR vs. Biorad S1000
- miniPCR vs. Biorad iCycler
- Stability of PCR product at room temperature
- Fast PCR in 24 minutes with miniPCR
Publications using miniPCR
- Successful Amplification of DNA aboard the International Space Station (Boguraev et al., NPJ Microgravity, 2017).
- Real-time DNA barcoding in a rainforest using nanopore sequencing: opportunities for rapid biodiversity assessments and local capacity building. (Pomerantz et al., GigaScience, giy033, 2018. PDF.)
- Nanopore sequencing of long ribosomal DNA amplicons enables portable and simple biodiversity assessments with high phylogenetic resolution across broad taxonomic scale (Krehenwinkel et al., Biorxiv.org. PDF.)
- Rapid identification of infections (Park et al., Science Advances 2016, Vol.2 No.5)
- A simple, economical protocol for DNA extraction and amplification where there is no lab (Guevara et al., 2017) PDF
- Toward the Drug Factory Microbiome: Microbial Community Variations in Antibiotic-Producing Clean Rooms (Hamdy Amal M. et al., OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology. February 2018, 22(2): 133-144)
- Paper-Based DNA Reader for Visualized Quantification of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections (Guan Wang et al., ACS Sens., 2018, 3 (1), pp 205–210)
- Performance of miniPCRTM mini8, a portable thermal cycler (Kwon et al., 2016)
- PCR Heads into the field. (Technology feature, Nature Methods 2015, Vol. 12 No. 5)
- PCR: Thirty-five years and counting. (Science Magazine Technology Feature including miniPCR.)
Meet miniPCR™ Users: Case Studies
- Animal health: PCR on the farm: Raising healthy animals
- Agriculture: Using genetics to grow better truffles (TED version here)
- DIY Bio: Engaging with molecular biology at home
- STEM Education: Transforming biotech education in the classroom
- Forensics: Bringing DNA analysis closer to the evidence
- Human health: Combating Ebola in Sierra Leone
- Human health: PCR diagnostics for mosquito-borne infections
- Biodiversity: From snakes to DNA sequences in 24 hours
- Biodiversity: Studying lemur genomes in the Madagascar forest (Case study. Publication.)
- Biodiversity: Real-time DNA barcoding in a remote rainforest using nanopore sequencing (Full-text PDF)
- Molecular Ecology in the Austrian Alps (student-led Wolbachia research)
- Microbiology: Sequencing microbes on the ocean floor (NASA collaboration)
- Space biology: Enabling DNA sequencing in space (NASA collaboration)
- Space biology: First DNA amplification aboard International Space station (watch video)
- Space Biology: Announcing results of first PCR in microgravity
- Synthetic biology: Bioengineering on a simulated mission to Mars
- Research: miniPCR™ in academic research labs
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