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PippinHT

Nov 16, 2014

Sage Science has launched PippinHT, a high-throughput DNA sizing platform for next-generation sequencing workflows. The platform incorporates the company’s sizing technology and increases throughput to 24 samples per run, compared to a maximum of five with Pippin Prep or BluePippin, and shortens run times by about 50 percent.

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