Innovative qPCR Using Interfacial Effects to Enable Low Threshold Cycle Detection (IMAGE)

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Innovative qPCR Using Interfacial Effects to Enable Low Threshold Cycle Detection

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Polymerase chain reaction device amplifies DNA directly from tissue samples and achieves smartphone-based quantification at early thermal cycles. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 4 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.K. Harshman at the University of Arizona in Tuscon, AZ, and colleagues was titled, "Innovative qPCR using interfacial effects to enable low threshold cycle detection and inhibition relief."

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