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PCR vs. Rapid Test for COVID-19: Which Should You Take?
Medically reviewed by Jordana Haber Hazan, MD Two types of COVID-19 tests, the rapid antigen test and the polymerase chain ...
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Optimizing PCR: Proven Tips and Troubleshooting Tricks
Real-time PCR detects and quantifies DNA as the reaction progresses. This quantifies the specific amount of DNA present in a sample. The procedure requires specialized thermal cyclers with ...
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PCR-mediated recombination: A general method applied to construct chimeric infectious molecular clones of plasma-derived HIV–1 RNA
You have full access to this article via your institution. To demonstrate the power of PCR–mediated recombination and provide an example of the general utility of the method, we constructed ...
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An economic method for the fluorescent labeling of PCR fragments
I therefore devised a single-tube, nested PCR method that is easy to handle and yields consistent results. The PCR mix contained 8 pmol of each reverse and FAM-M13(-21) primer and 2 pmol of the ...
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How is the COVID-19 virus detected using real time RT–PCR?
What is real time RT–PCR? Real time RT–PCR is a nuclear-derived method for detecting the presence of specific genetic material in any pathogen, including a virus. Originally, the method used ...
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Insights into qPCR: Protocol, Detection Methods, and Analysis
Tanuka Biswas is a science communication professional, with over a decade of experience in molecular biology, cancer biology, and content strategy. She earned her PhD in biomedical sciences at the ...