Product Performance & Comparison
Unlike many vendors and distributors, Civic Bioscience performs Product Performance & Comparison tests in order to offer Canadian Scientists the Best Products, Assurance of Quality and overall Performance.
Our Current Product Performance & Comparison tests cover DNA Polymerases, Nucleic Acid Extraction Kits and other products which are testable using our current laboratory equipment. We try our best to make our Product Performance & Comparison tests clear, complete and respect our competitors. We shall, under no circumstances whatsoever, falsify any data or reagent used in order to favor the our suppliers’ products. Our goal is to offer you, Canadian scientists, a clear vision of Product Performance & Comparison with leading reagents whenever possible.
Alike our PCR Success Stories, we can compare your current reagents with our comparable products before you convert to Civic Bioscience. This is a FREE service that saves you time, reagents and money. Consider this service as our Engagement in Helping Scientists Like You.
List of all our Product Performance & Comparison tests
DNA Polymerase Comparison Chart
Specifications and pricing of commercially available Taq DNA Polymerases and High-Fidelity DNA Polymerases in Canada.
Detection Limit of High-Fidelity DNA Polymerases on gDNA
Published on Jan 30, 2017 by Simon Roy, Ph.D Detection Limit of High-Fidelity DNA Polymerases using Human gDNA for Template We previously determined the detection limit of different Taq DNA Polymerases using human genomic DNA as a template for PCR. For this instance,...
PCR Purification Kit Comparison – DNA Clean Up
Which is the Best Kit for DNA Clean Up? Our aim was to perform a PCR Purification Kit Comparison from different vendors. At Civic Bioscience, we distribute the Favorprep™ and EasyPure® product lines from FAVORGEN and TransBionovo respectively. First, the FavorPrep™...
miniPCR Review : How I use a portable PCR thermocycler to help life scientists day-to-day.
The miniPCR and blueGel systems represent the core instruments involved in the assistance we provide to real scientists who conduct life science research in Canada. Both laboratory instruments were essential in solving dozens of problems that prospect customers were...
GC-rich PCR: Comparison of FastPfu FLY and Q5 High-Fidelity DNA Polymerases
GC-rich PCR: FastPfu FLY vs Q5® High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase GC-rich PCR can be difficult to achieve Our aim was to verify compare FastPfu FLY (TransBionovo) and Q5 (NEB) high-fidelity DNA Polymerase at amplifying a GC-rich sequence (human ARX; 79% GC) from purified...
Detection Limit of Taq DNA Polymerase
What's the Detection Limit of Taq ? How many DNA copies from gDNA? There are MANY Taq DNA Polymerases out there on the market. Some are driven by strong marketing and others by strong performance. Our aim was to verify the Detection Limit of Taq DNA Polymerases in PCR...
Taq DNA Polymerase Comparison (Part 2)
Taq DNA Polymerase Comparison...which one should you choose? Nowadays, many suppliers offer Taq DNA Polymerases. Our aim was to perform a Taq DNA Polymerase Comparison. Our Taq DNA Polymerase Comparison assay consisted in PCR amplification of a fragment of the human...
PCR Cycling: High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase Comparison
PCR Cycling comparison between TransBionovo’s TransStart® FastPfu and FastPfu FLY with competitor High-Fidelity DNA Polymerases. Finding a reliable and versatile high-fidelity enzyme remains a challenge in DNA research. Our goal was to extend the data presented in our...
High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase Comparison using unpurified gDNA
High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase Comparison on difficult genomic DNA samples. Modern commercially available high-fidelity DNA Polymerases are derived from either Pfu and KOD. Pfu is an enzyme found in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus. KOD is an enzyme...
Direct PCR on hair, saliva, cheek scrub and dead skin lysates
TransDirect® Animal Tissue Direct PCR Kit Genotyping is the process of identifying differences in the genetic make-up (genotype) of an individual by examining the individual's DNA sequence and comparing it to another specimen or a reference sequence. It reveals the...
Amplification of 79% GC-rich human ARX
Introduction ARX is expressed in a wide variety of tissues including the brain, heart, skeletal muscle, testis, intestine, and pancreas [1–2]. The human ARX gene has five exons that together encode a number of protein domains of the transcription factor. These include...
‘FLY’ your PCR | DNA Polymerase Extension Rate – 6kb/min
Simply 'FLY' your long PCRs - Polymerase Extension Rate Transgen Biotech manufactures three High-Fidelity DNA Polymerases, TransStart® KD Plus, FastPfu and FastPfu FLY. TransStart® FastPfu FLY, a ultra-high fidelity (108x higher fidelity than EasyTaq) and ultra-high...