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Microbes and microbiome

Microbiome research guidelines

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Microbiome Research

How challenging is your sample?

Extracting nucleic acids from samples from diverse sources can be challenging in different ways. First, microbes have various cellular structures, such as distinctive cell walls, that can make them tough to disrupt, lyse and homogenize. Furthermore, some sample homogenates contain higher amounts of inhibitors. These impede or influence many downstream applications such as PCR and sequencing. Find our guidelines below for improving your results when working with microbes.