Courtesy of Qiagen
Looking for a way to isolate a nucleic acid and don't know where to start? The availability of options is the least of your worries. Whatever your particular sample source, throughput requirement, or scale, odds are good that somebody has a system available to help.
The sea of options is vast, and lucrative. Analysts predict that the rapidly growing nucleic acid isolation market may generate revenues reaching nearly $500 million by 2009.1 According to Frost & Sullivan, a market consulting firm, the development of the molecular diagnostics market, coupled with the growing number of sequencing and functional genomics initiatives, has fueled the considerable expansion of this marketplace, especially with burgeoning academic and pharmaceutical interest in RNA. Market researchers also note that genomic DNA and plasmid isolation kits are among the most commonly purchased.
Traditional protocols with their effective, albeit slow, organic extraction steps have largely been replaced ...
