This summer Assistant Professor of Biology Shantá Hinton organized an outreach program entitled Open Lab that brought students of all ages into the world of DNA extraction. Young children and their ...

Here, we report the development of sensitive real-time PCR methods useful for detecting vector sequences present ... and the Gentra Puregene DNA extraction kit was used for subsequent analyses ...

Scientists persisted with an automated extraction method despite concerns it yielded 90 per cent less DNA, a commission into a state-run lab has heard. An inquiry is looking at Forensic and ...

Tom Nurthen, who led the automation team in the lab, has given evidence to a new commission of inquiry that he believed at the time the DNA extraction method was introduced that it was not ...

A year’s worth of data from 2012-13 showed the method was recovering four times less DNA than another extraction method used in the lab at the time, Dr Wright said. An explanation for the lab ...

[F.Lab] is really worried that we are going to prepare a DNA sample from saliva ... To get the high speeds needed for the extraction, they use a brushless motor from a quadcopter.

The second commission of inquiry into the state-run forensic lab issued a scathing criticism of an automated DNA extraction system, known as Project 13, revealing it extracted “less DNA than ...