Author: Arndt Rolfs

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) – an in Vitro techniques for producing large amounts of a specific DNA fragment – has rapidly become established as one of the most important, impressive and fasci …

In the ten years since the first publication on PCR (Saiki et al. , 1985), this in vitro method of nucleic acid replication and modification has grown to rival in popularity traditional microbiologic …

PCR, developed at Cetus Corporation/USA by Henry A. Erlich, Kary Mullis and Randall K. Saiki, is a very simple method for amplifying nucleic acids in vitro. The realization of this idea bases on the …