BioTechniques

Tracking leishmaniasis with new PCR test

A new HRM PCR approach can track the spread of leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease affecting both animals and humans.
The Scientist

The History and Evolution of PCR

Explore 40 years of PCR history, from Kary Mullis’s invention story to the rise of digital PCR and how it revolutionized diagnostics and molecular biology.
C&EN

Collaborative Validation of an Event-Specific Quantitative Real-Time PCR Method for Genetically Modified Rice Event TT51-1 Detection

† Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 2 Xudong 2nd Road, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of ...
SciELO

Major diseases in edible red algae Pyropia under aquaculture: Infectious agents and procedure, detection, influencing factors, prevention, and treatment

At the infected site, red spots appear, and the spots become bigger over time. The periphery of the spot is always red, but the color of the center of the spot changes to green. As the disease ...
SciELO

Standardization of a rapid quadruplex PCR method for the simultaneous detection of bovine, buffalo, Salmonella spp., and Listeria monocytogenes DNA in milk

The objective of the present study was to Standardize a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) protocol for the authentication of bovine and buffalo milk, and to detect the presence of Salmonella spp. and ...
C&EN

Identification of Species in Animal Feedstuffs by Polymerase Chain Reaction−Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA

Istituto di Zootecnica, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Trentacoste 2, 20134 Milano, Italy, and Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, ...