DNA can signal the presence of or predisposition to a slew of diseases, including cancer. The ability to flag down these clues, known as biomarkers, allows medical professionals to make critical early ...

Article reviewed by Govind Kaigala, PhD at the University of British Columbia. Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. In situ hybridization (ISH) is a molecular technique that ...

Pipettes? Check. Centrifuges? Check. Microplates? Check. Gloves? Check. Salmon sperm DNA? Check. Wait what? There are a ...

Part of the device is coated with single strands of DNA. When these "probes" encounter DNA biomarkers that have a corresponding, or complementary, genetic sequence, the two strands bind, sending a ...

Probes are short, single-stranded chains of nucleic acid that seek out and latch themselves to a complementary sequence of nucleic acids, often buried anonymously in a much larger section of DNA/RNA.

Characterized by the formation of a stem-loop (hairpin) structure, Molecular Beacon Probes from LGC Biosearch Technologies are dual-labeled probes in which the reporter and quencher come into close ...