Technology
Polymerase Chain Reaction is the cornerstone of biotechnology and research. Yet certain problematic aspects, such as the ubiquity of bacterial contamination in reagents have gone unanswered. That is until the team at Pharmozyme Inc. came up with a novel manufacturing method eliminating a problem the CDC called “contamination on a scale that’s never been reported in science before…”
Pharmozyme first eliminated murine DNA contamination in Hot Start Taq polymerase with the introduction of Ninja Taq. Later it made the breakthrough of eliminating bacterial DNA contamination in Taq polymerase all together with the introduction of Crystal Taq. Such innovation will greatly aid “Any laboratory that does unbiased deep sequencing,” especially pathogen detection and discovery.