PCR was developed in 1983 ... complementary sequences on nontarget DNAs while the reaction is being set up. “Products created during setup decrease the efficiency of PCR,” says Joseph ...

Each cycle doubles the previous number: two copies become four, four copies become eight, and so on. A standard real time RT–PCR set-up usually goes through 35 cycles, which means that, by the end of ...

Things haven’t got much better over the years, largely shutting STEM classes and biohackers out of the PCR market ... rapidly heat a reaction block up to the 99°C denaturation temperature ...

But one technology more than any other had the ability to render the invisible visible — polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing ... qPCR technology to detect up to 15 targets per test, which ...