학술논문
A cost-effective and efficient approach for generating and assembling reagents for conducting real-time PCR.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*COVID-19 pandemic
*MOUSE leukemia viruses
*REVERSE transcriptase
*COMPLEMENTARY DNA
DEVELOPING countries
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ISSN
0250-5991
Abstract
Real-time PCR is a widely used technique for quantification of gene expression. However, commercially available kits for real-time PCR are very expensive. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has severely hampered the economy in a number of developing countries, resulting in a reduction in available research funding. The fallout of this will result in limiting educational institutes and small enterprises from using cutting edge biological techniques such as real-time PCR. Here, we report a cost-effective approach for preparing and assembling cDNA synthesis and real-time PCR mastermixes with similar efficiencies as commercially available kits. Our results thus demonstrate an alternative to commercially available kits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]