The introduction of nucleic acid amplification techniques has revolutionized the field of
medical diagnostics in the last decade. The advent of PCR catalyzed the increasing …

Nucleic acid testing for infectious diseases at the point of care is beginning to enter clinical
practice in developed and developing countries; especially for applications requiring fast …

Early detection of pests and pathogens is of paramount importance in reducing agricultural
losses. One approach to early detection is point-of-care (POC) diagnostics, which can …

Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS) for use in on-site rapid detection of DNA or RNA are
increasingly being developed. Here, amplification of the target sequence is key to increasing …

Since the Human Genome Project completed in 2000, the sequencing of the first genome,
massive progress has been made by medical science in the early diagnosis and …

Catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) is an enzyme-free amplification method that has
previously proven useful in amplifying and transducing signals at the terminus of nucleic …

Infectious diseases are clinically relevant, transmissible illnesses caused by
microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. According to a recent report …

The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), an emerging human
coronavirus, causes severe acute respiratory illness with a 35% mortality rate. In light of the …

Food safety problems have become one of the most important public health issues
worldwide. Therefore, the development of rapid, effective and robust detection is of great …

Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) is a transcription-based isothermal
amplification technique especially designed for the detection of RNA targets. The NASBA …