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New Products: Illumina's Nextera Enrichment Kits

Aug 29, 2012
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Illumina has launched new Nextera exome and custom enrichment kits. Samples can be prepared in less than three hours and an entire enrichment workflow can be completed in two days, according to the company. The kits require 50 nanograms of DNA, and the exome kit targets more than 62 megabases in both the coding and untranslated regions.

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