1. Paternity Test - Comparative DNA Testing
(Category/DNA Testing)

... DNA technologists extracted DNA from the bone cells, amplified it by the PCR, and compared its base composition with DNA obtained from blood cells of living family descendants (including Prince Philip ...

2. Polymerase Chain Reaction - PCR
(Category/DNA Testing)

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) permits the scientist to locate the molecular equivalent of a needle in a haystack. The PCR was developed at the Cetus Corporation in 1984 by Kary Mullis (Nobel laureate ...

3. DNA Analysis and Diagnosis
(Category/DNA Testing)

... environment. Many of these techniques have been made possible by a technology called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Before 1985, hardly anyone had heard of PCR; by today's standards, a laboratory ...

4. Forensic DNA Typing
(Category/DNA Testing)

... (PCR). Virtually all forensic applications of DNA typing now use the PCR technique because it is faster and can be used with much smaller samples of DNA than can RFLP. Less than a year after Jeffreys ...

5. Fossil Avian Eggshell Preserves Ancient DNA
(Category/DNA News)

... by retrieval of both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from many of the samples. Using confocal microscopy and quantitative PCR, this study critically evaluates approaches to maximize DNA recovery from powdered ...