If you’ve ever been tasked with developing a PCR reaction you know how hard it can be to get a PCR experiment to work. In fact, a popular and all too accurate lab joke is that PCR stands for “Pipette,…
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What’s in a name? Exploring different types of PCR
The Polymerase Chain Reaction ©Edvotek 2014 PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is a widely used molecular biology technique that amplifies specific DNA segments. Researchers design primers that match the target DNA sequence, which is then amplified by Taq DNA polymerase. Basic…
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How “Ancient Chewing Gum” Highlights the Utility of DNA Analysis
Genomic DNA analysis has become a fundamental component of many high school teaching laboratories. Some of our best-selling kits involve simulations of practical, modern uses of the technique. Specifically, forensic DNA fingerprinting (for example, experiments 130 and 371) and simulations…
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PCR: A Love(ish) Story
Once upon a time, in a laboratory not so far away, there were two polynucleotide chains that coiled around each other to form a double helix. They lived happily in a small test tube surrounded by molecules of Tris-HCL and…
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