PCR

FORMULATRIX® Announces Unveiling of New High-throughput Digital PCR System

July 23, 2017

CONSTELLATION Digital PCR system (image credit: FORMULATRIX) July 19, 2016— FORMULATRIX® announced today that the next generation CONSTELLATION® Digital PCR System will be revealed at the qPCR and Digital PCR Congress in Philadelphia [more...]

Bio-Rad to Acquire RainDance Technologies

January 22, 2017

Bio-Rad Laboratories has agreed to acquire RainDance Technologies for an undisclosed price, the companies said today (Jan 16th 2017). “The company’s droplet-based solutions will extend our reach into next-generation sequencing [more...]

Novel Nanoscale Detection of Real-Time DNA Amplification Holds Promise for Diagnostics

September 12, 2016

A photo and a schematic illustration for a nanofluidic diffraction grating. Label-free signals based on a diffraction intensity change were attributed to amplification of DNA molecules, such as human papillomavirus and tubercle bacilli. [more...]

Microfluidic Methods for Molecular Biology

September 6, 2016

Book Description Amazon Link | Springer Link Authors: Lu, Chang, Verbridge, Scott S May 15th, 2016 Springer Summary This book covers the state-of-the-art research on molecular biology assays and molecular techniques enabled or enhanced [more...]

Analyzing DNA on Chip: Carving the PCR Toolbox in Silicon

November 15, 2015

Silicon-based PCR chip (Credit: Tim Stakenborg, Senior Scientist, imec) The PCR technique has given medical doctors and researchers a powerful tool to detect specific DNA sequences in a sample. With PCR, they can determine, for example, [more...]

The Lab-on-Chip Revolution: Finding the Right Niche

October 24, 2015

To trim costs and simplify the design of microfluidic devices, USC’s Krisna Bhargava has harnessed 3D printing to produce modular, Lego-style components for housing the elements of microfluidic systems. In laboratories ranging from [more...]

An integrated CMOS quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction lab-on-chip for point-of-care diagnostics

September 9, 2014

Considerable effort has recently been directed toward the miniaturization of quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction (qPCR) instrumentation in an effort to reduce both cost and form factor for point-of-care applications. Considerable gains [more...]