Automated chip-based device for simple and fast nucleic acid amplification

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 613-620

  Münchow, Götz ^a   Dadic, Dalibor ^a   Doffing, Frank ^a   Hardt, Steffen ^b   Drese, Klaus Stefan ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lab on a chip; Microfluidics; Modular system; PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; DNA EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROFLUIDICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AUTOMATION; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 22044437415     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.5.4.613     Document Type: Article

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