Nucleic Acid Amplification Technologies: Application to Disease Diagnosis

by Stephen A. Morse and Helen Lee

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has proved to be a powerful and versatile tool and has opened new avenues in molecular biol- ogy. Alternative nucleic acid amplification techniques, such as the ligase chain reaction (LCR), nucleic acid sequence-based amplifica- tion (NASBA), and transcription-mediated amplification (TMA), a variation of NASBA, are also now available. These techniques are all designed to amplify specific nucleic acid sequences in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817639217
• ISBN13: 9780817639211
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 286 Pages