R Wilson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
The widespread use of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) as labels in diagnostics and detection is due to a unique combination of chemical and physical properties that allow biological …
Anthocyanin accumulation is coordinated in plants by a number of conserved transcription factors. In apple (Malus× domestica), an R2R3 MYB transcription factor has been shown to …
CT Wittwer - Human mutation, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in fluorescent dyes, methods, instruments and software for DNA melting analysis have created versatile new tools for variant scanning and genotyping. High …
Background: Screening for heterozygous sequence changes in PCR products, also known as “mutation scanning”, is an important tool for genetic research and clinical applications …
J Li, L Wang, H Mamon, MH Kulke, R Berbeco… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
PCR is widely employed as the initial DNA amplification step for genetic testing. However, a key limitation of PCR-based methods is the inability to selectively amplify low levels of …
Background Knockdown resistance (kdr) is a well-characterized mechanism of resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in many insect species and is caused by point mutations of the …
K Matsuda - Advances in clinical chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and single-nucleotide mutations result from the substitution of only a single base. The SNP or mutation can be relevant to disease …
M Erali, KV Voelkerding, CT Wittwer - Experimental and molecular …, 2008 - Elsevier
Separation of the two strands of DNA with heat (melting) is a fundamental property of DNA that is conveniently monitored with fluorescence. Conventional melting is performed after …