EurekAlert - In medical diagnostics, the importance of genetic code assays is growing day by day and modern molecular biology could not do without it. Current DNA analysis techniques, however, are far from perfect. Working on a record high speed genetic research tool Curiosity Diagnostics, a spin-off company of the Warsaw Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and part of the Scope Fluidics group, has developed a new method of DNA analysis, combining the key advantages of the two currently most used methods.
Molecular diagnostics is playing an increasingly important role in today's medicine: in the detection of genetic diseases, the monitoring of the effectiveness of anti-cancer therapy, in the fight against aggressive bacterial infections, where the early identification of the species of bacteria threatening a patient can determine his or her life... >>>