As recently as the early 1990s, DNA purification was time-consuming, requiring the use of
toxic, hazardous reagents. The advent of solid phase extraction techniques and the …

Nucleic acid testing (NAT), as a molecular diagnostic technique, including nucleic acid
extraction, amplification and detection, plays a fundamental role in medical diagnosis for …

The investigation of human disease mechanisms is difficult due to the heterogeneity in gene
expression and the physiological state of cells in a given population. In comparison to bulk …

Diagnostic assays implemented in microfluidic devices have developed rapidly over the past
decade and are expected to become commonplace in the next few years. Hundreds of …

A novel solid phase extraction technique is described where DNA is bound and eluted from
magnetic silica beads in a manner where efficiency is dependent on the magnetic …

Globally, waterborne organisms are the primary causative agents for the transmission of
various forms of diarrheal diseases. For accurate diagnosis, molecular tools have gained …

The potential utility of genome-related research in terms of evolving basic discoveries in
biology has generated widespread use of DNA diagnostics and DNA forensics and driven …

The most commonly applied method of fluorescence detection for on-chip gel
electrophoresis is finish line detection in epifluorescence configuration using highly …

To date, the forensic community regards solid phase extraction (SPE) as the most effective
methodology for the purification of DNA for use in short tandem repeat (STR) polymerase …

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a biochemical technique for copying DNA by repeatedly
changing the temperature of nucleic acid samples. In this study, we aim to create an …