Credit: Courtesy of The Smithsonian Institution The "aha" moment and initial experiments in 1983 through which Kary Mullis developed the idea of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are a well trodden ...

With each cycle the amount of template ... who developed a new method for real-time quantitative analysis of RNA called linear-after-the-exponential (LATE)-PCR 5. “When using real-time PCR ...

In most cases, the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is their method of choice for quickly generating a sufficient amount of identical genetic material for study and analysis. Prior to the ...

Things haven’t got much better over the years, largely shutting STEM classes and biohackers out of the PCR market ... primer to replicate the DNA. The cycle repeats and copies of the original ...