Solar thermal polymerase chain reaction for smartphone-assisted molecular diagnostics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jiang, Li ^a   Mancuso, Matthew ^a   Lu, Zhengda ^a   Akar, Gunkut ^b   Cesarman, Ethel ^b   Erickson, David ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; DEVICES; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; MOBILE PHONE; MOUSE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PROCEDURES; SKIN; SOLAR ENERGY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL PHONES; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MICROFLUIDICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84900565485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04137     Document Type: Article

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