For a German service laboratory specializing in DNA profiling, a short-term fix to supply chain issues led to long-term reductions in costs and turnaround time. The Quantabio team was honored to play a role in getting this important work back on track in a difficult time with our Extracta kits for DNA extraction.
Angelika Lösch and Kirsten Thelen founded ID-Labor in 1998 to perform robust, reliable profiling services. Today, ID-Labor stands as a premium laboratory for individualized DNA profiling services. Lösch, Thelen, and their team of scientists have served more than 15,000 customers with tests for cell line validation, patient sample management, kinship, and forensics. They routinely run projects for some 300 courts in Germany and Switzerland, and Lösch and ID-Labor processes hundreds of samples per month.
Analyzing all of those samples – and maintaining their reputation for delivering excellent results – depends on meticulous laboratory processes, reliable reagents, and a steady supply of consumables. In the COVID-19 pandemic, that carefully constructed workflow was suddenly threatened by supply chain issues.
Lösch and Thelen considered a number of vendors offering DNA extraction products and chose Extracta kits from Quantabio to alleviate their supply chain problems. Our team was able to deliver kits quickly, and the ID-Labor scientists soon discovered that the Extracta kits were more than simply a fix to their backorder issues. The two kits they evaluated – Extracta Plus DNA and Extracta DNA Prep for PCR – actually outperformed their original method, generating high-quality DNA faster and at lower cost.
After a thorough validation process, the ID-Labor laboratory is now certified to run a broad range of sample types with the Extracta kits.
“The Extracta kits are reliable and compatible with every other kit we use,” Thelen says. “The DNA they give us works with all of the downstream PCR applications we use.” She notes that the kits require fewer processing steps, ensuring a robust process because there are fewer opportunities for error.
To learn more about how the ID-Labor team uses Extracta kits for cell line analysis, quality management for patient samples, and paternity and kinship testing, check out the full customer profile.
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Nov 30, 2023
