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Chip-in-a-Tube-Based Digital PCR for Quantification of Single Nucleotide Variants
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2025
This video demonstrates the utility of digital PCR in a chip-in-a-tube format for the detection of single nucleotide variations in DNA samples. A single PCR reaction is partitioned into chambers that act as independent PCR reactions, and the detection of fluorescence signals from the amplified targets in the chambers is used to compute the frequency of the variant allele in the sample.
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Milk Collection in the Rat Using Capillary Tubes and Estimation of Milk Fat Content by Creamatocrit
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Cited by 24 •
2015
Milk is a primary source of nutrition for the neonate. Analysis of milk components may provide insight into maternal factors that affect offspring health. This protocol describes a manual method of collecting milk samples from the lactating rat, which can then be used for further downstream analysis.
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Genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus by Ribosomal Spacer PCR (RS-PCR)
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Cited by 9 •
2016
Here, ribosomal spacer PCR (RS-PCR) is used together with a miniaturized electrophoresis system as a fast and high resolution method for genotyping S. aureus at moderate costs allowing a high throughput.
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Tube Thoracostomy
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2023
Source: Rachel Liu, BAO, MBBCh, Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Tube thoracostomy (chest tube placement) is a procedure during which a hollow tube is inserted into the thoracic cavity for drainage of fluid or air. Emergency chest tube insertion is performed for definitive treatment of tension pneumothorax, traumatic hemothorax, large-volume pleural effusions, and empyemas. Irrespective of the cause of air and fluid accumulation in the pleural space, the...
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PCR: The Polymerase Chain Reaction
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2023
The polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is a technique used to amplify DNA through thermocycling – cyles of temperature changes at fixed time intervals. Using a thermostable DNA polymerase, PCR can create numerous copies of DNA from DNA building blocks called dNTPs. There are three steps in PCR: denaturation, annealing, and elongation. Denaturation is the first step in the cycle and causes the DNA to melt by disrupting hydrogen bonds between the bases resulting in single-stranded DNA. Annealing...
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Heat resistance allows the tubes to remain functional as the thermal cycler repeatedly changes reaction temperature. During denaturation, primer annealing, and extension, each tube must contain the reaction mixture while supporting consistent processing. This stability matters because repeated temperature cycling drives amplification of selected DNA sequences for downstream cancer-related analysis.
Consistent tube design helps researchers handle and process multiple reactions in a comparable way. When tubes are organized and used consistently, reaction management becomes more uniform across a collection, supporting reproducible data. This is especially important in cancer research, where results from different samples may be compared during studies of mutations, gene expression targets, or biomarkers.
The tube brings together template DNA, primers, nucleotides, polymerase, and buffer so the thermal cycler can process them as one reaction. Their coordinated presence supports selective amplification during the programmed stages of denaturation, primer annealing, and extension. The resulting amplified sequence can then support analysis of cancer-related molecular targets.
Researchers prepare the reaction mixture in individual heat-resistant tubes, organize the tubes according to the samples or targets being examined, and place them in a thermal cycler. The instrument repeatedly performs denaturation, primer annealing, and extension. Consistent preparation and organization help manage multiple reactions and support reproducible amplification data.
They are useful when investigators need to examine molecular features from tissue or other biological samples. Reactions can support analysis of mutations, gene expression targets, and molecular biomarkers. By keeping individual sample reactions organized during processing, the collection helps researchers generate data relevant to tumor biology, disease classification, and treatment response studies.
PCR processing in these tubes can generate reproducible data about selected DNA sequences and molecular targets. In cancer studies, those data may contribute to investigations of tumor biology, help distinguish disease classifications, or support assessment of treatment response. The value of the collection lies in enabling organized, consistent processing across the reactions required for these analyses.