thermocycler buyers' guide

Other expressions for thermocyclers: thermal cyclers, PCR machines

Who needs them? Scientists who want to amplify DNA.

Principle of PCR

An all-encompassing site is: PCR Jump Station

A good introduction into the current affairs of PCR (January 1999).

Which companies are manufacturing thermocyclers:


Innovation rate

2001

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1996

Older, but still popular thermocyclers launched before 1996

2400 (Applied Biosystems), Tetrad, PTC-100 and PTC-150 (MJ Research), RoboCycler Gradient (Stratagene).