MagMAX™ Pathogen RNA/DNA Kit - FAQs

The MagMAX Pathogen RNA/DNA Kit is designed for rapid purification of nucleic acid (RNA and DNA) from the following sample types:

- Low-cell content samples including serum, plasma, swabs (nasal, tracheal, and cloacal), ear notches
- Whole blood
- Semen
- Oral fluid
- Feces
- Biomed Diagnostics InPouch TF (Tritrichomonas foetus) culture

The manual isolation protocol for the MagMax Pathogen RNA/DNA Kit can be found in the MagMAX Pathogen RNA/DNA Kit Protocol , page 49.

Find additional tips, troubleshooting help, and resources within our Automated Nucleic Acid Purification Support Center.

We recommend using DNA Binding Beads for MagMAX-96 DNA Multi-Sample Kit (Cat. No. 4489112) with the MagMax Pathogen RNA/DNA Kit.

No, manufactured protocols are locked for editing, but they can be renamed using the ‘save as' function and edited as a new version.

For nucleic acid extraction, we recommend using our MagMAX kits and MagJET kits. Other magnetic beads should work well as long as they are 0.5 to 10 µm in size. However, you will have to write your own KingFisher protocols using the Thermo Scientific BindIt software and validate/optimize the protocol on your own.

Find additional tips, troubleshooting help, and resources within our Automated Nucleic Acid Purification Support Center.

Yes, this can be done by sample splitting. Set the protocol so that the magnet will collect samples from multiple wells before continuing to the next step. Be sure not to overload.

Find additional tips, troubleshooting help, and resources within our Automated Nucleic Acid Purification Support Center.

Yes, reaction volumes can be scaled up, and all other volumes (i.e. wash volumes) will have to be increased by the same fold difference. It is generally not recommended to scale up reaction volumes more than 2-fold unless the plate's volume capacity will allow it.

Yes, all MagMAX kits can be used with the KingFisher Flex Magnetic Particle Processor.