American Foulbrood is a notifiable, bacterial disease that, if found, is required to be reported to the AFB management agency as well as the hive being destroyed.

dnature, is New Zealand’s lead DNA diagnostic laboratory in the development of DNA

Quanta have recently released a NGS library amplification mix for increased efficiency and unbiased amplification.  Plus we have it in stock in NZ so you’d get it the next day.  Here’s some more info on the new products.

Gisborne biotech company, dnature diagnostics & research, has launched a new DNA test to detect Mycoplasma bovis, a bacteria that threatens New Zealand’s dairy and beef industries.

The test has been shown to offer better sensitivity (ie

Biospec have announced improvements to the Mini-Beadbeater 96 while retaining all of its’ original features.  The beadbeater now has a new digital controller offering timing cycles from 0 to 5 minutes, and includes RPM control from 1400 to 2400

Lexogen, a specialist RNA-Seq company,  have just launched a new small RNA Seq Library Kit.  The kit provides a protocol for generating small RNA libraries for Illumina sequencing directly from RNA or enriched small RNA.

Multiplexing of up

Prof. Kathryn Stowell and the team at the Institute of Fundamental Sciences have just received their Ferrari Red DeNovix Spectrophotometer/Flurometer.  While we can’t guarantee that the colour will make it go as fast as a Ferrari, the DeNovix can