Bioline EPIK MiRNA Select Assays

Meridian Bioscience subsidiary Bioline has launched a full range of EPIK miRNA Select assays. The recent release includes all of the organisms listed on the miRBase release 21, which increases the number of EPIK miRNA assays to over 27,000. Each assay was designed in collaboration with MiRXES in silico using thermodynamics-based algorithms. They also include miRNA specific reverse transcriptase primers and hemi-nested real-time PCR primers along with Bioline reverse transcriptase, SensiSmart with SYBR Green, and optimized buffers.