Cambio is offering a range of MO Bio nucleic acid isolation and purification kits for use in environmental, clinical, public health and forensic-science applications.
These include the only kits on the market developed specifically for use with biofilms, according to the company.
MO Bio's full range of nucleic-acid isolation and purification products in mini, midi, maxi and 96-well formats is available from Cambio and typical yield for these kits is more than 95 per cent.
Maximising total DNA/RNA from environmental samples, MO Bio's Powersoil DNA Isolation Kit, Powermax Soil DNA Isolation Kit and RNA Powersoil Total RNA Isolation Kit use patented technology to completely remove PCR-inhibiting compounds, including humic substances and the brown colour often associated with soil DNA.
Designed to analyse soil or other environmental samples, these kits provide microbial DNA, leading to more successful downstream PCR analysis - according to the company.
Even the most difficult soil types, such as compost, sediment and manure, can be processed using the kits.
The Powersoil DNA Isolation Kit is used to examine a range of sample types, such as food (cheese, milk, meat and fruit), water, insects and faecal samples.
Biofilms are implicated in antibiotic resistance, gum disease, bacterial infections following implant of medical devices and bioremediation.
MO Bio's Power Biofilm DNA and RNA Isolation kits are the only available products dedicated to extracting nucleic acids from microbes organised into biofilms, the company claims.
Another MO Bio product highlight is the RTS Dnase Kit, said to contain the world's first Dnase I enzyme, which is stable at room temperature.
Efficiently removing contaminating genomic DNA from RNA preparations, the kit protects RNA sample from damage during the Dnase treatment process.
Also available from Cambio, the MO Bio Ultraclean Six Minute Mini Plasmid Prep Kit provides a set of reagents to purify plasmid DNA from 1-2ml bacterial cultures.
The Ultraclean PCR Clean-up Kit is designed to purify PCR products directly from a PCR or enzyme reaction, yielding clean DNA in three minutes.
Utilising a silica-based spin filter, the Ultraclean Gelspin DNA Extraction Kit purifies DNA from agarose gels in as little as five minutes.
