Month: January 2023
The Workings of Molecular Diagnostic Testing and its Uses
Post Views: 1,530 When discussing new-age diagnostics, one often hears terms like molecular testing. This revolutionary technique, also known as molecular diagnostics (MDx), molecular pathology or molecular biology, has become critical in medical laboratories as the foundation of disease diagnostics. This is true, especially in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remember the term RT-PCR?…
Methods for purifying and analysing proteins via western blotting
Post Views: 2,360 For many years, the western blotting technique has been a primary method in molecular biology and techniques like proteomics (the large-scale study of proteomes: a set of proteins produced in an organism, system, or biological context). Given that western blot is a multistep process, often requires specialist interpretation and potential errors and…