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Real-time PCR Applications
Current real-time PCR technology has applications in a huge range of scientific areas including molecular biology, microbiology, genetics, diagnostics, clinical laboratories, forensic science, environmental science, food science, hereditary studies, paternity testing, and many other areas of the life sciences. | Edited by: Keith E. Herold and Avraham Rasooly "a comprehensive and felicitous compendium" (Drug Research) read more ...Applications in the biomedical and life sciences: biomolecule separation, electrophoresis, chromatography, protein and cell separation, genetic and transcriptome analysis, PCR, cell viability analysis and microorganism capturing. |
Applications of PCR
The polymerase chain reaction is used by a wide spectrum of scientists in an ever-increasing range of scientific disciplines. In microbiology and molecular biology, for example, PCR is used in research laboratories in DNA cloning procedures, Southern blotting, DNA sequencing, recombinant DNA technology, to name but a few. In clinical microbiology laboratories PCR is invaluable for the diagnosis of microbial infections and epidemiological studies. In food science PCR has become increasingly important to the agricultural and food industries as a valuable alternative to traditional detection methods. PCR is also used in forensics laboratories and is especially useful because only a tiny amount of original DNA is required, for example, sufficient DNA can be obtained from a droplet of blood or a single hair. Real-time PCR (or qPCR) is currently used in almost all applications in place of traditional, legacy PCR. Real-time PCR has applications in all branches of biological science. Applications include agricultural and food industries, gene expression analysis, the diagnosis of infectious disease and human genetic testing. Due to their capability in fluorimetry the real-time machines are also compatible with alternative amplification methods such as NASBA provided a fluorescence end-point is available.- Real-Time PCR in forensic science The use of PCR in forensic science and forensic applications, including real-time fluorescence-based quantitative polymerase chain reaction, PCR microchip applications in forensic analysis, and PCR methods based on mitochondrial gene
Recommended Reading
| Edited by: Nick A. Saunders and Martin A. Lee read more ...Provides both the novice and experienced user with an invaluable reference to a wide-range of real-time PCR technologies and applications and supplies detailed technical insights into the underlying principles, methods and practice of real-time PCR. |
| Edited by: David Rodríguez-Lázaro read more ...An indispensable manual on real-time PCR for scientists in the food industry and for anyone involved in the detection of foodborne pathogens. |
| Edited by: Martin Filion "useful book ... filled with valuable information" (Doodys) read more ...Aimed specifically at microbiologists, this volume describes and explains the most important aspects of current real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) strategies, instrumentation and software. |
 | Edited by: Suzanne Kennedy and Nick Oswald "an essential book ... a valuable tool to all those interested in PCR" (Doodys); "an essential guide" Aus. J. Med. Sci. read more ...Control, optimize and troubleshoot PCR, reverse transcriptase PCR, real-time PCR and quantitative PCR. An essential book. |
| Edited by: Keith E. Herold and Avraham Rasooly "a comprehensive and felicitous compendium" (Drug Research) read more ...Applications in the biomedical and life sciences: biomolecule separation, electrophoresis, chromatography, protein and cell separation, genetic and transcriptome analysis, PCR, cell viability analysis and microorganism capturing. |