I was wondering if there was any lab currently using the Rotor Gene 6000 machine to measure telomere length as there is no one in my lab that knows how to run a RT PCR?
@ Andrey,
It is just another Real-Time PCR detection system (cycler) but is designed for more precise detection.
See below description from http://www.biolabo.com/Real-Time-PCR-Detection-System-Rotor-Gene-6000
Rotary Design
The Rotor-Gene is unlike any other instrument. It was designed from the ground-up for real-time thermo-optical analysis. The key difference is the unique centrifugal rotary design that ensures well-to-well variation is negligible — as it should be. In the Rotor-Gene, every tube spins quickly in a chamber of moving air. Thus there is no positional temperature variation such as the recognized “edge effect” observed in block-based instruments. Optically, the Rotor-Gene is similarly uniform because every tube moves past the identical excitation and detection optics.
- Badges
- Science method