BACKGROUND As the United States embraces electronic health records (EHRs), improved emergency medical services (EMS) information systems are also a priority; however, little is known about the experiences of EMS agencies as they adopt and implement electronic patient care report (e-PCR) systems. We sought to characterize motivations for adoption of e-PCR systems, challenges associated with adop...

Real time-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) technology has revolutionized the detection landscape in every area of molecular biology. The fundamental basis of this technology has remained unchanged since its inception, however various modifications have enhanced the overall performance of this highly versatile technology. These improvements have ranged from changes in the individual components of the ...

Tradit ional ly cult ivat ion, microscopic and immunological based techniques were only the means by which endodontic microbiota were studied. Because of their several limitations in microbiological diagnosis, newer molecular genetic methods were introduced. Polymerase chain reaction -PCR is a widely spread advance in clinical diagnostic technology and known to be cornerstone in genome sequenci...

This paper evaluates the performance of the newest technique for monitoring the expression of a panel of pathwayor disease-specific genes: the RT2 Profiler PCR Array System from SA Biosciences. The PCR Array System combines the quantitative performance of SYBR® Green-based real-time PCR with the multiple gene profiling capabilities of a microarray. The PCR Array is a 96or 384-well plate contain...

To explore the application of DNA chip technology for the detection and typing of Human Papillomavirus (HPV), the HPV6, 11, 16 and 18 gene fragments were isolated and printed onto aminosilane-coated glass slides by a PixSys 5500 microarrayer as probes to prepare the HPV gene chips. HPV samples, after being labeled with fluorescent dye by restriction display PCR (RD-PCR) technology, were hybridi...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become gold standard for detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA worldwide. However, PCR-based nucleic acid technology remains relatively time-consuming, and requires specialized instrumentation technical personnel; therefore, PCR is difficult to apply at primary-level medical institutions. Antibody-based limitations because late appearance ...

The controller DNA technology allows the detection of multiple mutations in a single codon of genomic DNA. In this technology, the controller DNA is used to control the hybridization of target DNAs with the immobilized DNAs. The controller DNA technology is rapid, specific, and cost-effective for the following reasons, (i) final results in 40 min after PCR, (ii) detection and discrimination of ...

PURPOSE Mutations in mononucleotide repeat sequence (MRS) are good indicators of high-frequency microsatellite instability (MSI-H) cancers, but it has been a challenge to detect such mutations in a large background of wild-type DNA; as in this setting, PCR errors often generate false positive mutant alleles. In this study, we developed a general strategy, referred to as probe clamping primer ex...