PCR in ten minutes!

[John Dixon]

Hi there,

has anybody out there tried the 'Rapidcycler' from Idaho technology?

We recently got a flier from BioGene Ltd advertising this machine. It
claims to have a ramp time of 10C per second, using 'high velocity
turbulent air'. They include a picture of a gel with a 536bp band
amplified using 30 cycles of 94C 0 sec, 60C 0 sec, 72C 5 sec. Total
reaction time 9 min 25 sec. 

This would obviously be seriously handy for cycle sequencing/ optimizing
PCR's and so on.

Has anyone tried this contraption? I haven't called them yet but the flier
does not include cost or size info.

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