MBS News

NextGenPCR™ —the world's fastest PCR thermal cycler— is setting new standards in the world of microbiology and bacterial research with its 16S Full Gene Amplification Kit.

30 September 2024

Ultrafast 16S rDNA sequencing!

In collaboration with the National Science Agenda, BKB, and New Scientist, Lowlands Science opened its doors once again. Festival-goers were introduced to science in a whole new way, while researchers collected valuable data from a diverse group of participants.

28 August 2024

NextGenPCR™ Rocks Lowlands!

In the fast-paced world of genomics, time is of the essence. That’s why we’re excited to announce the latest advancement in our product lineup: NextGenPCR™ 16S Sequencing Kits, designed to deliver complete sequencing results within a single day, including library preparation.

28 August 2024

Revolutionizing 16S Sequencing: Complete Your Workflow in Just One Day

This year, MBS will be present at the Lowlands festival as part of the unique 'Viva La Vaginome' project developed by with Avans University of Applied Sciences and the 'Women for Women' network

15 August 2024

MBS at Lowlands: Viva La Vaginome and the Power of Rapid Diagnostics

Visit our booth D40.1 on april 27-30 at the ECCMID in Barcelona. Meet our scientists to discuss how to substantially accelerate your workflow for: 16S sequencing, SARS-CoV-2 sequencing, MPX sequencing, Vector-borne diseases, Metagenomics.

10 April 2024

Visit our booth D40.1 on 28 april 2023 at the ECCMID in Barcelona

26 March 2024

NextGenPCR™ 16S Full Gene Amplification Kit

Monkeypox viruses, pathogen closeup, infectious zoonotic disease, background banner format

14 December 2023

MPXV Genome analysis for pandemic preparedness

We would like to invite you to our NextGenPCR webinar. Dr. Robin Struijk (Director of Science, Molecular Biology Systems) will present NextGenPCR and cover the specific details that makes it the fastest thermal cycler worldwide.

17 October 2023

Dr. Robin Struijk (Director of Science, MBS) will present NextGenPCR at webinar

Express barcoding: NextGenPCR revolutionized COVID detection - now it's accelerating DNA barcoding! See how 2 students barcode 250 flies in 6 hrs with equipment that fits on a lab bench: better and faster than morphospecies sorting.

5 May 2023

Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species-level sorting of ecological samples.

Elsevier publishes our article. Ultrafast RNA extraction-free SARS-CoV-2 detection by direct RT-PCR using a rapid thermal cycling approach with the NextgenPCR.

5 May 2023

DMID (Elsevier): Ultrafast RNA extraction-free virus detection by direct, ultrafast RT-PCR

Visit our booth EN-22 on april 15-18 at the ECCMID in Kopenhagen. Meet our scientists to discuss how to substantially accelerate your workflow for: SARS-CoV-2 sequencing, MPX sequencing, 16S sequencing, Vector-borne diseases, Metagenomics.

26 April 2023

MBS Receives ISO 13485 Certification for Medical Device Manufacturing

22 March 2023

Visit our booth EN-22 on 15-18 april 2023 at the ECCMID in Kopenhagen

30 November 2022

Implementing fast, accessible viral surveillance with nanopore sequencing

10 November 2022

Webinar: Implementing Fast, Accessible Viral Surveillance With Nanopore Sequencing

10 November 2022

Accelerating Monkeypox and SARS-CoV-2 Virus Whole Genome Sequencing using Combination of NextGenPCR and Oxford Nanopore…..Towards Real-Time Genomic Surveillance

12 September 2022

2 minute PCR by NextGenPCR™ at the ASHG 2022 in Los Angeles?

2 August 2022

Novel and fast typing method developed to control monkeypox

We are currently looking for a customer-focused Marketing Specialist to develop and implement marketing strategies and objectives. This position will have the responsibility for promotional planning with a focus on digital (including web, email and social) and event marketing (conferences), meeting with and presenting to clients, and conducting research projects leading to the recommendations of product positioning, packaging, and pricing strategies. The Marketing Specialist creates marketing materials and campaigns while measuring their impact on sales.

10 June 2022

Vacature Marketing Specialist

Fast and reliable NGS library preparation can be critical for different applications where time to result is of high importance. Molecular Biology Systems now offers multiple PCR-based library preparation solutions for the Oxford Nanopore sequencing platform using ultrafast NextGenPCR™ thermal cycling. The combined NextGenPCR™ library prep workflow can increase laboratory data output by up to 400%.

25 May 2022

Visit our booth X5-352 on june 11-14 at the ESHG in Vienna

12 May 2022

Ultra-Fast COVID-19 results using NextGenPCR™ in combination with FLUOstar Omega from BMG Labtech

18 April 2022

Wouldn’t it be great to see 2 minute PCR at the ECCMID 2022?

You are cordially invited to our session of lectures on Covid-19. Here we would like to present how we showcase Slovakia as an example where innovative preventive measures go hand in hand with innovative treatment measures. We look forward to meeting you. It is possible to discuss and ask questions.

28 January 2022

Ultra fast high throughput COVID-19 by nextgenPCR at the Slovak Health Pitch

6 April 2021

Leading diagnostics laboratory in the Caribbean selects NextGenPCR for SARS-CoV-2 testing

30 June 2020

Ultrafast RT-PCR for COVID-19 by Molecular Biology Systems draws Dutch government support

Dutch company Molecular Biology Systems is in the process of validating its shoebox-sized NextGenPCR instrument for rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing, claiming the system could potentially process more than 22,000 samples in a day by performing plate-based thermal cycling in less than eight minutes.

30 June 2020

Dutch Firm Molecular Biology Systems Validating Rapid Thermal Cycler for COVID-19 Testing

A single unit, the size of a shoebox, could perform a hundred and eighty (180) amplification runs a day, an almost ten-fold increase over the current US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended instrumentation. Detection of amplified product can be done with widely-available blue light gel document systems.

31 March 2020

22,860 SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus tests in 24 hours with NEXTGENPCR

Molecular Biology Systems (MBS), the developer of NEXTGENPCR™, is pleased to announce their newest distributor, Velocidy Bio. Velocidy Bio becomes the exclusive distributor of NEXTGENPCR™ instruments, accessories and consumables in the United States and Canada. NEXTGENPCR™ is an innovative thermal cycler that can reduce cycling programs to less than two minutes, by both eliminating ramp times as well as reducing dwell times.

19 February 2020

MBS adds Velocidy Bio as distributor for US and Canada

18 September 2019

NextGenPCR at the ASHG

Webinar on NextGenPCR by Gert de Vos (founder & CEO of MBS)

NEXTGENPCR: An Entirely New Ultra-fast Technology for Heating and Cooling of Samples

7 May 2019

New WEBINAR on NEXTGENPCR

28 March 2019

Employee research and development PCR

31 July 2018

NextGenPCR at the AACC

12 July 2018

Webinar on NextGenPCR

During the presentation, Gert will focus on the technology behind NEXTGENPCR. Special attention will be paid to publications detailing 2 minute PCR data and how NEXTGENPCR amplified all 29 fragments of the BRCA1 gene in less than 10 minutes for subsequent Sanger sequencing.

30 May 2018

WEBINAR: An entirely new ultra-fast Technology for heating and cooling of samples

Dutch biotechnology company Molecular Biology Systems (MBS) today announced it will launch its revolutionary NEXTGENPCR thermal cycler in the US and Canada through Canon BioMedical, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc. focused on empowering the biomedical research and healthcare communities by developing, manufacturing, and marketing innovative technologies and solutions.

24 April 2018

MBS Inks Deal with Canon BioMedical for NEXTGENPCR distribution in US and Canada

Following a successful debut last year, we will again be present at the Festival of Genomics, London to be held January 30-31 in the ExCeL Centre

21 December 2017

Latest NEXTGENPCR on display at London Festival of Genomics January 30-31

1 December 2017

MBS Selects AMPLITECH To Launch NEXTGENPCR in France and Switzerland.

6 October 2017

MBS Selects CAMLAB To Launch NEXTGENPCR In UK At Lab Innovations

New deals in China, Israel, Russia, Benelux, Spain, Czech Republic and UK reflect strong demand for ultra-fast new thermal cycler Dutch biotechnology company Molecular Biology Systems(MBS) continues to build its global sales network with the announcement today of new distributors for revolutionary NEXTGENPCR thermal cycler in China – PreMed Lab; Israel – Pronto Diagnostics; Czech Republic – YBUX; Albiogen – Russian Federation; Isogen - Benelux, Spain and CAMLAB - UK.

20 September 2017

MBS Rapidly Builds Global NEXTGENPCR Distributor Network

Superfast cycler stuns genomics community with sub-2 minute protocols. Dutch biotechnology company Molecular Biology Systems(MBS) today reported major interest for its revolutionary NEXTGENPCR thermal cycler following the appearance of the first production models at the recent ESGH and LABVOLUTION meetings.

10 July 2017

NEXTGENPCR Steals the Show at ESHG and LABVOLUTION

Demand grows for superfast cycler after LABVOLUTION and ESHG showing. Dutch biotechnology company Molecular Biology Systems(MBS) today announced it has signed an exclusive distributor agreement for its revolutionary NEXTGENPCR thermal cycler with Isogen Life Sciences. This follows highly successful showings of the first production models at the recent ESHG and LABVOLUTIONS meetings.

8 July 2017

MBS seals exclusive NEXTGENPCR distributorship with Isogen Life Science for Benelux and Spain

A year on from our debut appearance in Barcelona, MBS will again be exhibiting at ESGG. This time visitors to Copenhagen, May 27-30, will be able to see the production version of our NEXTGENPCR thermal cycler.

18 March 2017

Exhibit NGPCR Copenhagen (May 27-30)

Dutch biotechnology company Molecular Biology Systems(MBS) today unveiled the pre-production model of its revolutionary new NEXTGENPCR thermal cycler at the Festival of Genomics in London.

1 February 2017

MBS unveils NEXTGENPCR revolution in thermal cycling at Festival of Genomics

Dutch startup Molecular Biology Systems has developed a thermal cycler that boasts amplification times of less than 10 minutes for a standard oncology molecular diagnostic, and as little as two minutes for 30-cycle PCR assays.

3 November 2016

PCR Platform from Dutch Firm MBS Claims 30 Cycles in Two Minutes | GenomeWeb

At the ESHG 2016 meeting held from May, 21 to 24 in Barcelona, MBS will introduce the NEXTGENPCR 1. This novel thermocycler, together with its proprietary consumables, will perform PCR within 2 minutes.

6 May 2016

ESHG 2016, May 21-24, 2016, Barcelona, Spain