Isothermal amplification is a low-cost and rapid method for detecting low amounts of DNA or RNA. This technique eliminates the need for a thermal cycler and is increasingly used in rugged field or point of care settings for the rapid diagnosis of plant pathogens or infectious disease agents.
BioCat offers rapid and sensitive loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP and RT-LAMP) component kits and master mixes, in addition to DNA polymerases with high strand displacement activity, like Bst or phi29 DNA polymerases. These reagents allow researchers to perform assays outside of high-tech laboratories using low complexity instrumentation.