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Starting with an idea conceived in 2000, the makings of inqaba biotec as a commercial entity slowly began to take shape around this time 20 years ago. The seed funding for inqaba biotec was secured at the end of 2001 from private investors mainly from Germany, South Africa, and Switzerland. However, the company would not …

2002: A real humble beginning… Read More »

The inqaba biotec team wishes you a Happy Festive Season and all the best for 2022! Thanks for your support over the past two decades. Let us all take actions against global warming and protect our biodiversity.

After all the interesting, informative and fun submissions, we would like to thank the participants for taking time to be part of the Inqaba’s Africa Genome Challenge, and we would like to finally announce the winners. Winners with the highest number of likes are announced for each category as well as courtesy ones, which are …

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The Legend of Inqaba: As the great Winston Mackay once said, “Everyone can steer a ship, but only he with a clear vision can be a captain”. It was said that once upon a time in the year of Horse, a colt was born named Inqaba, born to be the one to battle an unknown …

Solutions for diagnostics, surveillance and research of Sars-CoV-2 Read More »

Voting is open now. Videos have been received, stage set and now it’s time for you to have your say. You can vote for your favourite project by clicking on the like button on the comment section with the name of your favourite topic and the video number. You are encouraged to watch all the …

Inqaba’s Africa Genome Challenge 2021: Please make your selection! Read More »

Shoreline Biome’s microbiome products now available in Sub-Saharan Africa FARMINGTON, Conn.— Shoreline Biome, a microbiome research company that develops complete solutions for characterizing microbiome populations down to the strain level, has entered into a partnership with Inqaba Biotechnical Industries (Pty) Ltd for product distribution and StrainID services in Sub-Saharan Africa. Inqaba Biotechnical Industries (Pty) Ltd, …

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With the  arrival of our PacBio Sequel IIe in our genomics laboratory in Pretoria late last year,  we are now able to sequence and assemble large genomes as easy as never before in Africa. The long HiFi reads from the Sequel IIe system makes this possible. To celebrate this exciting milestone for genome research at …

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As we wrap up this year that is marred by a pandemic, the inqaba biotec team  wishes you a happy and safe festive season as well as a better New Year!

The design of inqaba biotec 2021 calendar is inspired by three things; art, molecular biology and the laboratory environment in general. The calendar is meticulously and hand-crafted to bring the three aspects to LIVE in great graphic details. The calendar highlights inqaba biotec’s ever expanding services/products portfolio ranging from oligos, DNA sequencing, ZooOmics, instrument services …

inqaba biotec 2021 calendar with a twist Read More »

Mukondeni Pottery is a group of 13 women who established a pottery in Mukondeni, near Elim, Northern Limpopo in 1998. Their pots are decorated with geometric patterns and symbols like the fish and are traditionally used to cook and keep water cool among many other uses. The clay pots are a great part of our …

Oligos, DNA sequences and …clay pizza ovens? Read More »