First choice is to explore if commercially ready-to-use probes are available for specific targets.  Enzo Life Sciences offers a selection of ready-made, high-sensitivity PATHO-GENE® HPV or BIOPROBE® Infectious Agent Probes for HPV, Adenovirus, CMV, and more. Each probe is developed for use with specific hybridization and detection systems.

When customization is required, in-house probe synthesis is an option. DNA probes are easy to prepare by nick translation from supercoiled or linearized DNA or random priming. Probes labelled by nick translation are routinely employed in DNA hybridization experiments referred to as in situ hybridization (ISH), and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), and employed in screening gene banks by colony or plaque hybridization.

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