Bacterial biofilm formation is a widespread phenomenon and a complex process requiring a
set of genes facilitating the initial adhesion, maturation, and production of the extracellular …

In biological research, qPCR is a technique that is frequently used to measure gene
expression levels. The calculation of gene amplification efficiency is a critical step in the …

The newly identified coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2), causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has affected over 25 million …

Resource managers may be hesitant to make decisions based on environmental (e) DNA
results alone since eDNA is an indirect method of species detection. One way to reduce the …

Shortages of reverse transcriptase (RT)-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) reagents and
related equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated the need for …

Food-producing animals are an important reservoir and potential source of transmission of
antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to humans. However, research on AMR in turkey farms is …

Vision under dim light relies on primary cilia elaborated by rod photoreceptors in the retina.
This specialized sensory structure, called the rod outer segment (ROS), comprises hundreds …

There is an ever-increasing number of applications, which use quantitative PCR (qPCR) or
digital PCR (dPCR) to elicit fundamentals of biological processes. Moreover, quantitative …

Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) data are found to display periodic
patterns in the fluorescence intensity as a function of sample number for fixed cycle number …

The quantification of bacteria in cell culture infection models is of paramount importance for
the characterization of host-pathogen interactions and pathogenicity factors involved. The …