Mining the Microbiome

To better understand how our microbial organisms affect our health and disease, scientists are surveying these communities using increasingly affordable genomics technology. Explore microbial communities in this poster from Mo Bio Laboratories, Inc.!

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MO BIO Laboratories Inc., a privately held company located in the San Diego biotech corridor (Carlsbad, CA, USA), was founded in 1993 by Liz and Mark Brolaski. Today, MO BIO’s growth and customer loyalty is challenging some of the world’s leading molecular biology tool companies with innovative technologies and a commitment to value.

MO BIO is known as the World Leader in Soil DNA & RNA Isolation®, thanks to its patented Inhibitor Removal Technology®, which enables isolation of pure nucleic acids from challenging samples such as soil, water, plants and stool. Thus, MO BIO kits are the method of choice for microbiome projects, as these studies often require isolation of nucleic acids from challenging samples that contain a variety of PCR inhibitors. Microbiome projects relying on MO BIO products include the Earth Microbiome Project (EMP), the NIH-funded Human Microbiome Project (HMP), and many other related studies.

In 2014, MO BIO ...

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