RNA and DNA Diagnostics / edited by Volker A. Erdmann, Stefan Jurga, Jan Barciszewski
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: RNA Technologies | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Cham ; s.l. : Springer International Publishing, 2015Description: Online-Ressource (X, 349 p. 124 illus., 78 illus. in color, online resource)ISBN:- 9783319173054
- RB155-155.8 QH431
- RB155-155.8
- QH431
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Summary: 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.”PPN: PPN: 165734410XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SBL
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