Thermo Fisher Scientific has produced another short, animated video featuring some very basic information about the polymerase chain reaction, PCR, one of the most common techniques in genetic ...

In a recent study, immunoglobulin G in human plasma was identified as a major inhibitor of diagnostic PCR (W. Abu Al-Soud, L. J. Jönsson, and P. Rådström. J. Clin. Microbiol. 38:345-350, 2000). In ...

Individual components, including the template, primers, polymerase, dNTP levels, and cycling conditions, can impact the overall PCR reaction. Explore how these ...

PCR is a widely used scientific tool employed by a variety of applications. Various Hot Start technologies have already been developed using modified PCR components to increase specificity of a ...

Thanks to staggering efforts by governments, residents, healthcare and essential workers, and researchers, first waves of the novel coronavirus appear (at the time of writing) to have largely subsided ...