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Stratec Molecular InviMag FFPE DNA Kit

Feb 22, 2019

Stratec Molecular has launched its InviMag FFPE DNA kit, which the firm said allows efficient, fully automated purification of pure and PCR inhibitor-free DNA from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples on its InviGenius PLUS platform. The instrument uses a robotic system for a magnetic bead-based isolation of nucleic acids from 12 samples in parallel. Stratec said the method reduces hands-on time, with only 15 minutes of preparation time for loading the instrument and protocol selection. The firm believes the kit will help increase productivity and efficiency to obtain reliable test results in molecular pathology analysis.

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