Toehold Probes (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Toehold Probes

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Toehold probes leverage thermodynamic principles to allow the specific detection of a correct target sequence, or to prevent them from detecting a spurious target sequence that can differ from the correct target sequence by only a single non-matching nucleotide.

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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