Ultrafast Photonic PCR (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Ultrafast Photonic PCR

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This is an artist's rendering of photonic PCR on a chip using light to rapidly heat and cool electrons at the surface of a thin film of gold. This method yields gene amplification results in mere minutes, and promises to transform point-of-care diagnostics in fields as diverse as medicine, food security and evolutionary biology.

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Image courtesy of Luke Lee's BioPOETS lab

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