Real-time quantitative PCR (QPCR) is now the benchmark technology for quantifying nucleic acids as traditional methods such as ribonuclease protection assay (RPA) become outdated and serve as ancillary techniques to QPCR.
Kevin Hrusovsky of Caliper Life Sciences, Nick Hughes from PA Consulting Group, David Weber of Stratagene, and Whatman's Dr Jens Beator offer their views on pharma's beating heart: drug discovery.
By Dr Christopher Austin of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Why falling costs and maturing technology mean biochips can revolutionise drug discovery.