Applied Biosystems has released a set of genomic analysis tools to aid disease research and agricultural studies.
These tools are available through the latest release of the Taqman Gene Expression Assays product line to evaluate levels of RNA expression in model organisms including cows, chickens, horses, pigs, rabbits and rice.
These pre-designed Taqman assays will allow researchers to expand their applications of real-time PCR-based gene-expression analysis.
The assays will enable genomic analysis of plants for agricultural studies to improve crop yield and animals for herd management.
Assays for species such as chickens, rabbits, pigs and cattle will help to advance animal and human-disease research.
For example, scientists at Michigan State University are applying RNA expression analysis to study mastitis, a disease that frequently afflicts dairy cattle, costing farmers billions of dollars a year.
This team of researchers is using custom Taqman Gene Expression Assays to characterise genes involved in tissue inflammation associated with this disease.
They have also been able to use the cow as a model for studying the genetic basis of inflammation in human diseases, such as cardiovascular disease.
Taqman Gene Expression Assays are available through Applied Biosystems's website.
