Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launched a family of FormaPure reagent kits for extracting nucleic acid from often challenging formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues. FormaPure reagent kits represent a single chemistry system designed and optimized for use in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and other downstream applications, including qPCR/ddPCR/PCR. The family of reagent kits is made up of FormaPure Total for total nucleic acid isolation, FormaPure DNA for DNA isolation and FormaPure RNA for RNA isolation.
“Maximizing sample integrity, yield and purity from FFPE samples is required to minimize the risk of losing critical genetic information,” said Tom Curtis, director of genomics marketing, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences. “Our FormaPure reagent kits provide researchers flexible, scalable solutions that generate consistent results while maintaining higher-integrity nucleic acids to support the improved sensitivity of NGS applications.”
NGS performance often starts with RNA integrity. FormaPure chemistry, when compared to similar, “industry-leading” kits currently in use, retains the best ...
