BioTechniques

Double duty for TaqMan probes

Taqman hybridization probes have been used for mutant allele detection by DNA melting curve analysis. Now researchers have also cleverly used these probes in another capacity in the assay in order to ...
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Comparison of COBAS 4800 KRAS, PCR TaqMan, and PCR high-resolution melting assays for the detection of KRAS somatic mutations in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded colorectal tumors.

New tissue aquisition tools for molecular biology. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the Markers in Cancer. This abstract does not include a full text component.
Business Wire

New Multiplex Solutions Enable Broader Simultaneous Detection of Target Genetic Markers in Pathogenic, AgBio and Clinical Research Samples

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers can now simultaneously analyze samples for multiple genetic markers of interest in a single qPCR reaction with a set of new Life Technologies TaqMan ...
Medscape

Rapid and Real-time Assays for Detection and Quantification of Chikungunya Virus

All real-time PCR systems rely upon the detection and quantitation of a fluorescent reporter, the signal of which increases in direct proportion to the amount of PCR product in a reaction. The ...
The Scientist

Quantitative PCR Update

In the nearly two decades since its discovery, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and its derivative techniques have revolutionized molecular biology. The exponential nature of the technique allows ...
JSTOR Daily

Simultaneous detection of coconut lethal yellowing phytoplasmas (group 16SrIV) by real-time PCR assays using 16Sr- and GroEL-based TaqMan probes

Lethal yellowing (LY) represents a serious threat to coconut in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean islands. It is caused by a phytoplasma of group 16SrIV, and particularly subgroups -A and -D ...