Microfluidic devices harboring unsealed reactors for real-time isothermal helicase-dependent amplification

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 325-336

  Ramalingam, Naveen ^a   San, Tong Chee ^b   Kai, Teo Jin ^b   Mak, Matthew Yew Mun ^b   Gong, Hai Qing ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Capillary microfluidics; Helicase dependent amplification; Isothermal nucleic acid amplification; Microreactor array; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY MICROFLUIDICS; HELICASE-DEPENDENT AMPLIFICATION; ISOTHERMAL NUCLEIC-ACID AMPLIFICATION; MICROREACTOR ARRAY; REAL-TIME PCR;

FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXTURES; PUMPS;

AMPLIFICATION;

EID: 69249236959     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0378-1     Document Type: Article

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