The PCR revolution
Subtitle: basic technologies and applications
By: edited by Stephen A. Bustin.
Contributors: Bustin, Stephen A., 1954-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521882316
Subjects: Polymerase chain reaction -- Diagnostic use; Polymerase chain reaction; Polymerase Chain Reaction -- methods; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures; Nucleic Acids -- analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Real time PCR / Mickey Williams; title: Thermostable enzymes used in PCR / Sudip K. Rakshit; title: Inventing molecular beacons / Fred Russell Kramer, Salvatore A.E. Marras, and Sanjay Tyagi; title: Rapid PCR and melting analysis / Carl T. Wittwer, Randy P. Rasmussen, and Kirk M. Ririe; title: PCR and fluorescence chemistries : DNA incarnate / Ben Sowers; title: Analysis of microRNA expression by qPCR / Vladimir Benes ... [et al.]; title: Miniaturized PCR for quantitative clinical diagnostics / Melissa Mariani, Lin Chen, and Philip J. Day; title: The road from qualitative to quantitative assay : what is next? / Michael W. Pfaffl; title: Taking control of PCR / Tania Nolan, Tanya Novak and Jim Huggett; title: PCR-based methods for the detection of cancer cells in blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes for clinical diagnostic assays / Susan A. Burchill; title: PCR and infectious diseases / Jim Huggett; title: PCR and respiratory viruses / Ian Mackay; title: PCR and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) / Yang Huanming and Weijun Chen; title: The MMR vaccine, measles virus, and autism : a cautionary tale / Stephen Bustin; title: Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis using cell-free fetal nucleic acids in maternal plasma / Y.M. Dennis Lo; title: PCR-based analyses of nucleic acids from archival material / Ulrich Lehmann; title: Microarrays and qPCR / Elisa Wurmbach; title: PCR in the detection of genetic variation / Pui-Yan Kwok; title: PCR : a blessing and a curse for ancient DNA research / Michael Hofreiter and Holger Rompler.