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SiO2 Materials Synergy Tube

Dec 03, 2019

SiO2 Materials Science has launched its Synergy Tube, a blood collection tube designed to optimize nucleic acid recovery and cancer tumor cells (CTCs) after blood draw. The firm said that researchers can extract cfDNA/cfRNA and cellular gDNA/RNA from the same tube, allowing users to pair results from the same sample. 

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