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- The Molecular/HIV Laboratory
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- Science
- Laboratory
- Scientist 1
- Scientist 2
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- Real time PCR
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- Science
- Clinical
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- Flow cytometry - HIV
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- Science
- Clinical
Background
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a technology originally conceived in the 60’s that enables the user to identify specific DNA, and read the genetic code as well as looking at expression levels of this genetic code. It has revolutionised many biological fields from forensic pathology to environmental biology. Medical laboratory science has also benefited massively from PCR technology. Virology and some Immunology departments use an adaptation of PCR to quantify HIV infection by enabling a count of the viral RNA copy number so that the treatment regimes of patients with the virus can be monitored based on infection level.
Virology and some Immunology departments use an adaptation of PCR to quantify HIV infection by enabling a count of the viral RNA copy number