2023: The US Patent Office has issued a patent to DNA Polymerase Technology for Taq D732N, a single mutant of Taq that can catalyze RT-PCR, RT-LAMP, faster PCR, and improved PCR for food safety. Find the product under our trade name, OmniTaq 2.
For more details, see our refereed paper: A Single Amino Acid Change to Taq DNA Polymerase Enables Faster PCR, Reverse Transcription and Strand-Displacement. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. 2021 8:553474.
2020: Klentaq1 aids in development of bisulfite PCR-LDR-qPCR assay for breast cancer detection.
2019: Vanderbilt Researchers detect SNP markers for antimalarial resistance using OmniTaq 3.
2017 and 2019: OmniKlentaq LA aids in the development of Long-Adapter Single-Strand Oligonucleotide (LASSO) probes: 2017 and 2019.
2015: National Institute of Justice Success Story: Addressing a Key Challenge for PCR-Based Forensic Tests
2014: Lab-on-a-chip technology for Malaria detection from whole blood using OmniKlentaq and PEC-1
2013: OmniKlentaq-LA beats out 8 other PCR enzymes on old bones
2008: DNA Polymerase Technology's scientist, Dr. Milko Kermekchiev, named Inventor of the Year.
2002: "Small lab graduates from incubator to building with space enough to share"