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August 06, 2015

Heating and cooling with light leads to ultrafast DNA diagnostics
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2015
New technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, promises to make a workhorse lab tool cheaper, more portable and many times faster by accelerating the heating and cooling of genetic samples with the switch of a light. This turbocharged thermal cycling, described in a paper to be published Friday, July 31, in the journal Light: Science and Application, greatly expands the clinical and research applications of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, with results ... read more

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