In medical research, method optimization evaluates ways to minimize or maximize specific parameters of a study. Optimization can involve parameters such as reducing the costs associated with a procedure, limiting the materials required to develop an assay, or obtaining maximal productivity from a technique.
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Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) are a reliable, sensitive, and accurate diagnostic approach used in viral detection. The approach involves the isolation of nucleic acids from a sampl...
Date: April 22, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The clinical lab is a collection of numerous complex workflows. It is imperative that not only specimens are protected from contaminati...
Directed evolution is an effective strategy to optimize the properties of proteins for specific requirements, either for industrial, therapeutics or research applications. As the theoretical...
Detection and/or amplification of target DNA sequences by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a prevalent method in molecular biology. PCR has a broad range of applications, including use in...
Historically, nasopharyngeal sampling has been considered the gold standard for the detection of most upper respiratory tract infections, however major medical and laboratory supply chain is...
As of March 2021, SARS-CoV-2 has infected 115 million people and caused over 2.56 million deaths. The emergence of mutants associated with changes to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has shown tha...