DNA Polymerase Offers Specificity, Stability for PCR

The FlashTaq Hot-Start Taq DNA Polymerase from Empirical Bioscience is a chemically-modified Taq polymerase designed to reduce non-specific amplification in PCR. The enzyme offers fewer contamination issues and fast activation time. Under standard hot start conditions it can be activated and the enzyme recovers both 5’-3’ polymerase and 5’-exonuclease activities within two minutes versus the ten minutes of activation time required by many competitors’ enzymes. In addition to its stability and rapid activation time, there are other factors that help FlashTaq streamline researchers’ studies, including the type of modifying reagent that it uses. The enzyme in FlashTaq has a reduced risk of contamination because it has been chemically-modified versus antibody-modified. Enzymes that are antibody-modified are highly susceptible to contamination from the organism in which they are produced.

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