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Droplet Digital TRAP (ddTRAP): Adaptation of the Telomere Repeat Amplification Protocol to Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction
Published on: May 3, 2019
A simple, fast and highly sensitive assay for the detection of telomerase activity
Quang Huy Quach1, Juyeon Jung, Hyeran Kim
1BioNanotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Major of Nanobiotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Gwahangno, Yuseong, Daejeon 305-806, Republic of Korea.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 18, 2013
Abstract:
A highly sensitive and rapid PCR-free telomerase activity assay has been developed that uses SYBR Green intercalation into the G-quadruplex structures in the presence of K(+).
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