RNA and DNA Diagnostics

349 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The aim of molecular diagnostics is preferentially to detect a developing disease before any symptoms appear. There has been a significant increase, fueled by technologies from the human genome project, in the availability of nucleic acid sequence information for all living organisms including bacteria and viruses. When combined with a different type of instrumentation applied, the resulting diagnostics is specific and sensitive. Nucleic acid-based medical diagnosis detects specific DNAs or RNAs from the infecting organism or virus and a specific gene or the expression of a gene associated with a disease. Nucleic acid approaches also stimulate a basic science by opening lines of inquiry that will lead to greater understanding of the molecules at the center of life. One can follow Richard Feynman’s famous statement “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

• Reihe: RNA Technologies
• Themen: Medizin Vorklinische Medizin, Grundlagenwissenschaften Genetik, Medizin
• ISBN: 9783319361994
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2016
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Volker A. Erdmann, Stefan Jurga, Jan Barciszewski