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nucleic acid amplification — increase in the number of copies of a specific nucleic acid sequence, either DNA or RNA; usually used to denote an in vitro nucleic acid amplification technique (q.v.) … Medical dictionary
Nucleic acid test — A nucleic acid test, often called a NAT test, (or nucleic acid amplification test NAAT ) is a biochemical technique used to detect a virus or a bacterium. These tests were developed to shorten the window period, a time between when a patient has… … Wikipedia
Nucleic acid thermodynamics — is the study of the thermodynamics of nucleic acid molecules, or how temperature affects nucleic acid structure. For multiple copies of DNA molecules, the melting temperature (Tm) is defined as the temperature at which half of the DNA strands are … Wikipedia
gene amplification technique — a term sometimes used to denote a nucleic acid amplification technique, although the segment of DNA or RNA undergoing amplification does not necessarily correspond to a single, entire gene … Medical dictionary
Nucleic acid methods — For protein methods, see Protein methods. Nucleic acid methods are the techniques used to study nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). Purification Phenol chloroform extraction minicolumn purification RNA extraction Quantification Abundance in weight:… … Wikipedia
DNA amplification technique — see nucleic acid amplification t … Medical dictionary
RNA amplification technique — see nucleic acid amplification t … Medical dictionary
DNA amplification — The production of multiple copies of a sequence of DNA. Repeated copying of a piece of DNA. DNA amplification plays a role in cancer cells. A tumor cell amplifies, or copies, DNA segments as a result of cell signals and sometimes environmental… … Medical dictionary
RNA amplification — an in vitro technique used to increase the number of copies of a specific segment of RNA to aid in its detection; see nucleic acid amplification technique, under technique … Medical dictionary
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification — (LAMP) is a single tube technique for the amplification of DNA. It may be combined with a Reverse transcription step to allow the detection of RNA.LAMP is a novel approach to nucleic acid amplification which uses a single temperature incubation… … Wikipedia
