#Product Trends
Concerned about Contamination of your Amplification Methods? SIMPORT is too!
PCR contamination
SIMPORT Amplitube™ PCR Tube Strips are popular with users for a number of reasons; manufacturing quality here in North America, made of pure polypropylene copolymer resins, very thin and controlled well thickness, maximum sealing to prevent evaporation just to name a few.
But can't all other manufacturers say the same?
As far as we're concerned here at SIMPORT, it's the inventiveness of our founder that helps our products differentiate themselves, in a world where everyone is trying to make essentially the same thing for a few dollars less.
Take for example, models T320-2 and T320-3, a strip of tubes that has been designed which a cap attached individually to each tube. This rather than a separate strip of plugs.
Why?
First, because you will not have to search for the strip of plugs when you need them, they are attached to the tubes. But above all because this configuration helps prevent contamination…
"Would you please explain to me how a plug helps prevent contamination," the skeptic will ask?
Bear with me. With these small tubes heated at varying temperatures of up to 95°C, it is therefore inevitable that the liquid inside condenses at least partially. Imagine lifting the strip of plugs, as gently as possible but with small jerks each time a plug releases its tube. This small action can cause tiny droplets of the product, condensed on the inside of the cap, to fall into a tube other than the one it was plugging!
BAM, your experiment is screwed. By pulling back each cap individually, at an angle, where they can safely drip, nothing will ever fall into the tube. That is a better solution, this is the SIMPORT solution!
In addition, SIMPORT has designed a tiny protective screen on the front of the tube (see bottom picture) which prevents contamination of the inside of the cap when opening - another unique and innovative feature.
Add to that a product whose cap gives a reassuring "click" when closing it, leaving no chance of evaporation and minimizing condensation.
These are the many reasons why all users wishing to minimize contamination must consider the Amplitude™ range.
