Real-time PCR is the favored method for measuring gene expression. Researchers benefit from a vast and growing choice of reagents and instruments for their experiments. Laura Bonetta reports.

A poor man's approach to genotyping for research and high-throughput diagnostics. Genotyping with microsatellite markers was first described by Litt and Luty, and is now a widely used method in ...

Tanuka Biswas is a science communication professional, with over a decade of experience in molecular biology, cancer biology, and content strategy. She earned her PhD in biomedical sciences at the ...

Since the emergence of COVID-19 in late 2019, the gold standard in testing for the disease has been a nuclear-derived technique: real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction, or real-time ...

Plasmids are small, circular DNA molecules that are used for genetic engineering, CRISPR applications, gene therapy, pharmaceutical development, and recombinant DNA technologies. Plasmids come in ...