Bioatlas in Italy

CABRU distributes Bioatlas in Italy, a European biotechnology company based in Tartu, Estonia, specialising in reagents for PCR, qPCR and nucleic acid electrophoresis. The CABRU catalogue lists 65 Bioatlas references, all within molecular biology.

About Bioatlas

Bioatlas is based in the Tartu Science Park, Estonia, and presents itself as a European biotechnology company supplying molecular biology products to distributors, OEM resellers and research laboratories. Much of its offer grows out of that OEM work: quantities, formats, tubes and labels are customisable, and the same logic shows in the standard catalogue, where a single reagent appears in several pack sizes.

What Bioatlas supplies

The catalogue includes reagents for qPCR, PCR and nucleic acid electrophoresis, including Atlas ClearSight, the non-toxic replacement for ethidium bromide (EtBr) in DNA staining, non-toxic and therefore safe to handle and dispose of.

• DNA polymerases of the Atlas line — Atlas Taq, Atlas HotTaq and Atlas Pfu with their buffers: 29 catalogue references relate to Taq chemistry. → Nucleic acids
• Ready-to-use PCR and qPCR mixes and RT-qPCR kits: 21 mix references, 9 of them expressly qPCR.
• Atlas ClearSight and ClearSight Gold DNA stains, an alternative to ethidium bromide for gel staining.
• Electrophoresis — ultrapure agaroses, ready buffers, loading dyes and DNA ladders. → Electrophoresis and western blot

The agarose tablet, and why it is the most recognisable product

Bioatlas supplies tablets that hold agarose, buffer and DNA stain in a single piece. Anyone casting gels by hand knows that weighing agarose and handling the stain are the two steps that generate variability and waste to dispose of: the tablet removes both. The CABRU catalogue lists 6 tablet references, in the plain, ClearSight and ClearSight Gold versions.

Application areas

DNA amplification and detection, routine and real-time PCR, reverse transcription, agarose gel visualisation and size checking of amplification products. These are reagents designed for the ordinary workload of a molecular biology laboratory rather than for a single specialist application.

How CABRU handles Bioatlas

Bioatlas is the brand to look at when the goal is to lower the cost per reaction of routine PCR without changing protocol, or to take ethidium bromide out of the laboratory. CABRU checks the match between the reagent in use and the Bioatlas equivalent, and on request asks the manufacturer for formats not shown in the catalogue. CABRU distributes Bioatlas in Italy on a non-exclusive basis. → Request information and a quote