With the global overuse of antibiotics, the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria and "superbugs" has become a major threat to human health and food safety. Among these, drug-resistant ...
Successful cancer surgery depends on a surgeon’s ability to remove tumors, while minimizing harm to healthy tissues. Surgeons currently use glowing dyes which mark cancer cells to help differentiate ...
The first fluorescent probe that can be used to detect embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells has been developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., DOI: 10.1002/anie.201002463). Stem cells can ...
What is real-time quantitative PCR? qPCR uses one of two methods to detect the changes to DNA amplification: use of fluorescent dyes or sequence-specific DNA probes. qPCR is normally performed in a ...
Real-time PCR or quantitative PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is an advancement of the standard PCR technique, which enables continuous monitoring of the reaction and collection of data in real time.