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Inqaba Biotec, in partnership with the University of South Africa (UNISA), is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Africa’s first PacBio Revio sequencing platform. This groundbreaking development marks a significant milestone in the continent’s genomic research capabilities. The state-of-the-art PacBio Revio system is being acquired through a collaborative partnership between Inqaba Biotec and UNISA, the …

Inqaba Biotec and UNISA Launch Africa’s First PacBio Revio DNA Sequencing Platform. Read More »

“THE BEAUTY OF SCIENCE IS TO MAKE THINGS SIMPLE” -Larry Jia, Founder/CEO This year marks a significant milestone for Zymo Research as they celebrate their 30th anniversary. From their humble beginnings in a small garage in Orange, California, to becoming a global leader in Biotechnology, their journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. Inqaba biotec …

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This year marks a momentous accomplishment for New England Biolabs (commonly referred to as NEB), as it celebrates 50 years of excellent business. Through his commitment to the scientific world, Donald Comb founded NEB in 1974 and this corporation currently holds a global status of being a leader in the discovery and production of recombinant …

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inqaba biotec is excited to announce that we are now endorsed by PacBio as a Certified Sequencing Service provider for superior long read (HiFi) sequencing on the Sequel IIe system. Do you need to investigate the transcriptome architecture of your organism (full length transcripts, including isoforms) – then Iso-Seq is the application for you! The …

PacBio certified service provider status for inqaba biotec Read More »

Using the GeneTitan instrument together with industry-recognized Affymetrix High-Throughput (HT) Array Plates, we will provide automated solution for microarray processing. With a broad selection of array plate formats, you can easily transition from discoveries through genome-wide SNP genotyping, to comprehensive explorations of gene expression profiles relating to important biological phenotypes, such as disease or drug …

Introducing inqaba biotec’s Microarray service Read More »

inqaba biotec will host a team from New England Biolabs in South Africa  from the 20th to 28th February 2023. The main occasion is the  14th International Congress of Human Genetics (https://www.ichg2023.com/) to be held in Cape, South Africa this month. Please visit our exhibition booths for updates and queries regarding the NEB portfolio. Customer visits are …

New England Biolabs is visiting! Read More »

Post-pandemic, PacBio were now able to host their first EMEA distributor meeting which was attended by Dr Oliver Preisig (Executive Director), Dr Hamilton Ganesan & Mr Acclaim Moila. The two day meeting (6-7 December, 2022), held at PacBio’s new EMEA headquarters at  King’s Cross (London) was a high-powered meeting introducing the EMEA distributor network to …

Inqaba Biotec participate at the first African BioGenome Project visit to the Sanger Institute Read More »

As another year draws to a close we want to wish you, our valued customer, a safe and joyous festive season and a good start into the new year. We certainly look forward to again engaging with you in 2023. As we’ve previously announced, 2022 was a particularly special year for us as we celebrated …

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INQABA BIOTEC / AFRICAN BIOGENOME PROJECT GENOME CHALLENGE 2022 We are 20 Years old this year! Understandably, this is a remarkable milestone for us as a company and, to mark the occasion we are partnering with the African BioGenome Project (ABP) organisation [https://africanbiogenome.org/] to host inqaba biotec’s second Genome Challenge. As a celebration, inqaba biotec …

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It was on this first week in August, exactly 20 years ago, that inqaba biotec officially opened for business and needless to say, it has been an interesting and eventful 20 years. Here is the tale of how it all began… It actually all started on a bus. In 2000, co-founders Dr Oliver Preisig (a …

2002-2022: Celebrating 20 Years of Uniqueness! Read More »