Biotium Unveils A New And Improved Version Of Their Industry-Leading qPCR Dye.

Fremont, CA, March 01, 2020: Biotium, a provider of innovative fluorescent tools for life science research, released a new version of their industry-leading qPCR EvaGreen^® Dye. The new version EvaGreen^® Plus, boasts superior signal-to-noise over the original EvaGreen^® Dye. This allows for higher sensitivity, which is critical for endpoint DNA detection applications such as digital PCR, and LAMP.

Biotium’s original EvaGreen^® Dye, validated in thousands of publications, already offers key advantages over other commonly used qPCR dyes, including lower PCR inhibition and HRM compatibility, in addition to being non-toxic and mutagenic. EvaGreen^® Plus offers all the advantages of the original EvaGreen^® Dye, while also boasting improved signal-to-noise. In addition, EvaGreen^® Plus dye features an excitation maximum that is a better fit for common qPCR instruments, which also contributes toward improved sensitivity. These properties are particularly advantageous for digital PCR and isothermal amplification applications such as LAMP.

The release of EvaGreen^® Plus Dye adds to Biotium’s expanding selection of innovative products for PCR and DNA amplification. Among these products are Biotium’s Cheetah™ Hot-Start Taq Polymerase, and Forget-Me-Not™ Master Mixes available for EvaGreen^® Dye-based detection or fluorescent probe-based detection.