PCR Is Changing Clinical Diagnostics

Advances in real-time PCR: application to clinical laboratory diagnostics.

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become one of the most important tools in molecular diagnostics, providing exquisite sensitivity and specificity for detection of nucleic acid targets. Real-time monitoring of PCR has simplified and accelerated PCR laboratory procedures and has increased information obtained from specimens including routine quantification and differentiation of amplificat...

Companion diagnostics: changing patient management

At the European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress (EMCC), held in Stockholm in September 2011, a recurring theme in many of the workshops was personalised medicine, including the latest developments in prognostic and predictive biomarkers. Such markers, it is hoped, will enable clinicians to use available resources to best effects-by offering treatments to only those patients most likely to ben...

Real-time PCR in Food Science: PCR Diagnostics.

A principal consumer demand is a guarantee of the safety and quality of food. The presence of foodborne pathogens and their potential hazard, the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food production, and the correct labelling in foods suitable for vegetarians are among the subjects where society demands total transparency. The application of controls within the quality assessment pro...

Parasite Diagnostics, an Ever-Changing World

molecular diagnostics in clinical microbiology

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