Pcr: Clinical Diagnostics and Research

by Arndt Rolfs, Ulrich Finckh, Irmela Schuller, et al.

In 1985, Kary Mullis was driving late at night through the flowering buckeye to the ancient California redwood forest, cogitating upon new ways to sequence DNA. Instead he came upon a way to double the number of specific DNA modules, and to repeat the process essentially indefinitely. 1 He thought of using two oligonucleotide sequences, oppositely oriented, and a DNA polymerase enzyme, to double the number of DNA targets. Each product would thene...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642774946
• ISBN13: 9783642774942
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 11.0"