Comparison of 200 ul thin wall PCR tubes

[Michael Cooley]

Chung-Ming Hsieh (Hsieh at cvlab.harvard.edu) wrote:
: Hello!

: We are trying to purchase certain amounts of PCR tubes for our Perkin-Elmer
: 9600 machines, and find that our choices of vendors are many.  The tubes
: from Bio Rad has better price than that from the Perkin Elmer Cetus,
: however, none of us here have used Bio Rad's tubes.  Has anybody out there
: compared them side by side in PCR and see any difference?

: Thanks in advance for any clues...

:  
: Chung-Ming Hsieh
: Hsieh at cvlab.harvard.edu
: Cardiovascular Biology Laboratory
: Harvard School of Public Health

We just purchased tubes from Intermountain Scientific (800-999-2901) at $55 
per 125 strips of 8. It's the lowest price I have seen so far. The tubes are 
identical to those offered by Gold BioTechology (800-248-7609), further 
these tubes are easier to open and close compared to the Cetus. Sorry, no 
side-by-side comparison.


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