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RNA and DNA Diagnostics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
RNA Technologies Series
Coordinators: Erdmann Volker A., Jurga Stefan, Barciszewski Jan
Language: EnglishSubjects for RNA and DNA Diagnostics:
Publication date: 10-2016
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 06-2015
349 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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The aim of molecular diagnostics is preferentially to detect a developing disease before any symptoms appear. There has been a significant increase, fueled by technologies from the human genome project, in the availability of nucleic acid sequence information for all living organisms including bacteria and viruses. When combined with a different type of instrumentation applied, the resulting diagnostics is specific and sensitive. Nucleic acid-based medical diagnosis detects specific DNAs or RNAs from the infecting organism or virus and a specific gene or the expression of a gene associated with a disease. Nucleic acid approaches also stimulate a basic science by opening lines of inquiry that will lead to greater understanding of the molecules at the center of life. One can follow Richard Feynman?s famous statement ?What I cannot create, I do not understand.?