How does Digital PCR help you?

Digital PCR (dPCR) partitions a bulk PCR reaction into thousands of picoliter-scale reactions — each containing one or just a few DNA molecules. By simply counting positive partitions, the original targets can be precisely quantified without needing a standard curve.

Digital PCR provides unparalleled confidence in applications ranging from rare target identification, copy-number-variation (CNV), gene expression and more.

Highlighted Research Areas

Infectious Disease

From routine biomarker testing to long-term patient monitoring, digital PCR (dPCR) with the Absolute Q System enables high confidence in target identification — down to just a few target molecules per reaction. Learn how Absolute Q leverages low false positives and multi-color multiplexing to enhance precision medicine with a one-step, walk-away workflow.

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Oncology

From routine biomarker testing to long-term patient monitoring, digital PCR (dPCR) with the Absolute Q System enables high confidence in target identification — down to just a few target molecules per reaction. Learn how Absolute Q leverages low false positives and multi-color multiplexing to enhance precision medicine with a one-step, walk-away workflow.

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Reproductive Health

A core consideration of reproductive health is empowering patients to make the best health decisions. With its unparalleled accuracy and precision, digital PCR provides patients the information they need. From genetic disease screening to residual disease monitoring, the Absolute Q has the potential to bring dPCR closer to patients, enabling more timely decisions.

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Highlighted Applications

  • All
  • Absolute Quantification
  • Copy Number Variation
  • Gene Expression
  • Genotyping
  • Rare Target Detection
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  • All
  • Absolute Quantification
  • Copy Number Variation
  • Gene Expression
  • Genotyping
  • Rare Target Detection

IDT rhAmp EGFR p.T790M Genotyping on the Combinati Absolute Q

Infectious Diseases Multiplexing: Standard Reproductive Health
Integrated DNA Technologies’ rhAmp SNP Genotyping System enables highly precise interrogation of SNPs within difficult genomic regions. For the first time, the IDT rhAmp assay performance was demonstrated on a digital PCR platform — quantifying EGFR p.T790M mutation down to 0.1%.
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BCR/ABL Gene Expression Assay on the Combinati Absolute Q

Infectious Diseases Multiplexing: Standard Reproductive Health
95% of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) cases are characterized by the presence of a BCR-ABL1 fusion gene. Regular monitoring involving precise quantification of BCR-ABL1 transcripts is integral to successful tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment. Read more about how samples with precise ratios of BCR-ABL1/ABL1 were created and confirmed on the Combinati ...
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Quadruplex Absolute Q Digital PCR for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Screening

Intercalating Dye Reproductive Health
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular disorder and leading genetic cause of infant mortality. Here we describe a 4-color multiplexing digital PCR solution on the Combinati Absolute Q to meet the growing demand for rapid SMA newborn screening and treatment.
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Quantification of DNA using the Combinati Absolute Q

CRISPR Multiplexing: 3-4 colors
Quantification of DNA using the RnaseP gene is a common standard in dPCR practice. Read more about how the Absolute Q can quantify the concentration of genomic DNA and X chromosome copy number using a commercially available two-color dPCR assay
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TaqMan Liquid Biopsy assays for rare target quantification

Low Multiplexing Oncology
Digital PCR (dPCR) enables rare target detection even in the presence of high non-target background. Read more about how the Applied Biosystems™ TaqMan™ Liquid Biopsy dPCR Assays were used to perform rare target detection for 5 hot-spot cancer mutations on the Combinati Absolute Q platform.
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