Spectrum Compact CE Benchtop DNA Analysis Instrument launched by Promega in collaboration with Hitachi High-Tech Kumar Jeetendra | September 3, 2020 Madison, WI USA. (September 1, 2020) Promega today launched its benchtop capillary electrophoresis (CE) instrument, the Spectrum Compact CE System, developed in collaboration with Hitachi High-Tech. The personal CE system is an integrated DNA analysis instrument that enables life scientists in laboratories of all sizes to perform Sanger sequencing and fragment analysis at the bench. …
Hereditary components of human gut microbiota are key to wellbeing Kumar Jeetendra | February 6, 2021 Neanderthals’ gut microbiota already contained some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found within our own intestine. An international research group headed by the University of Bologna achieved this result by extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from 50,000-year-old fecal sediments sampled at the archaeological site of El Salt, near Alicante (Spain). Published in Communication Biology, their …
Genomic study tracks the rise of multidrug resistant E.coli Kumar Jeetendra | May 17, 2021 Antibiotic resistance in E.coli has been steadily rising since the early 2000s despite attempts to control it, a new study suggests. In the biggest genomic survey of E.coli to date, that took more than 16 years in Norway, researchers have successfully tracked the spread of antibiotic resistant genes and have demonstrated that these genes are …