New Technique Improves Sensitivity of PCR Pathogen

Detection.AND

Tests That Use DNA from Mother’s Blood to Determine Sex

of Fetus Often Effective.

By

Cristina Cruz Agudelo

Medicine student

UPB

Medellin

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INTRODUCTION

New Technique Improves Sensitivity of PCR

Pathogen Detection.

Science Daily April 22, 2011

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

New Technique Improves Sensitivity of PCR Pathogen Detection.

Science Daily April 22, 2011

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The diagnostic plant diseases that can cause yield losses and diminished markets among other economic harm.

The test's ability to obtain a "genetic fingerprint" conclusively identifying a culprit pathogen hinges on there being a minimum number of its cells.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

New Technique Improves Sensitivity of PCR Pathogen Detection.

Science Daily April 22, 2011

preliminary step called

Growth-promoting agar or liquid media to increase the number of a target organism's cells in a sample prior to amplification of genetic material.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

New Technique Improves Sensitivity of PCR Pathogen Detection.

Science Daily April 22, 2011

Increase sensitivity by 100- to 1000-fold over conventional PCR methods

Stops substances called inhibitors from interfering with the action of a key enzyme

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New Technique Improves Sensitivity of PCR Pathogen Detection.

Science Daily April 22, 2011

PERSONAL OPINION These studies applied to human medicine, to help early detection of latent diseases in the body, using methods that improve current techniques.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Tests That Use DNA from Mother’s Blood to

Determine Sex of Fetus Often Effective

Science Daily August 9, 2011

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Tests That Use DNA from Mother’s Blood to Determine Sex of Fetus Often Effective

Science Daily August 9, 2011

Important alternative to invasive cytogenetic

determination,

Noninvasive prenatal determination of fetal sex

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Tests That Use DNA from Mother’s Blood to Determine Sex of Fetus Often Effective

Science Daily August 9, 2011

cell-free fetal DNA from Mother’s Blood

some heritable disorders

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Tests That Use DNA from Mother’s Blood to Determine Sex of Fetus Often Effective

Science Daily August 9, 2011

Detect Y chromosome sequences within maternal samples

this "technology can be useful in clinical settings for early detection of fetuses at risk for

sex-linked disorders requiring follow-up testing”.

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It's exciting to see the medicine to serve patients and see how we reduce the risks of the procedures that we as future Doctors will improve the quality of life of mothers. 

Tests That Use DNA from Mother’s Blood to Determine Sex of Fetus Often Effective

Science Daily August 9, 2011

PERSONAL OPINION

MEDICAL UTILITY

MEDICAL UTILITY

MOLECULAR MEDICINE EVERY DAY BRINGS NEW AND TRANSCENDENTAL ADVANCES TO HUMANS

MEDICAL UTILITY

EARLY DIAGNOSIS

EFFECTIVE AND MOLECULAR TREATMENT ENABLING EFFECTIVE

MEDICAL UTILITY

INTERVENTIONS AND INCREASINGLY LESS INVASIVE TO PREEMPT THE APPEARANCE OF SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF DIFFERENT DISEASES HAVE BEATEN TO HUMANITY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

•New Technique Improves Sensitivity of PCR Pathogen Detection. Science Daily [online]. April 22, 2011. Avalibable online.<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110421104508.htm>

 •Tests That Use DNA from Mother’s Blood to Determine Sex of Fetus Often Effective. Science Daily [online]. August 9, 2011. Avalibable online. <http://www.sciencedaily.comreleases/2011/08/110809162000.htm>

•MARTINEZ SÁNCHEZ, Lina María. Biología molecular. 6 ed. Medellín: UPB. Fac. de Medicina, 2011, 120 p.