Real-time PCR (qPCR) analysis has become the method of choice for quantitating DNA in a wide variety of applications. The availability of commercial kits has made the technique easy to perform, ...

The nanopore optofluidic chip used in the new diagnostic system, with a PCR thermocycler in the background for comparison. The new system could easily fit into a researcher’s lab or clinician’s office ...

According to WHO, it can be difficult to clinically distinguish Ebola disease from other infectious diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, shigellosis, meningitis and other viral haemorrhagic fevers ...

Circular RNA (circRNA) is a unique type of non-coding RNA produced by back splicing of mRNA to form the covalent junction without 3’-5’ polarity and poly(A) tail. CircRNA was first discovered about 30 ...