1st Edition
by Nader Rifai PhD (Editor), A. Rita Horvath (Editor), Carl T. Wittwer (Editor), Jason Park (Editor)
Principles and Applications of Molecular Diagnostics
serves as a comprehensive guide for clinical laboratory professionals
applying molecular technology to clinical diagnosis. The first half of
the book covers principles and analytical concepts in molecular
diagnostics such as genomes and variants, nucleic acids isolation and
amplification methods, and measurement techniques, circulating tumor
cells, and plasma DNA; the second half presents clinical applications of
molecular diagnostics in genetic disease, infectious disease,
hematopoietic malignancies, solid tumors, prenatal diagnosis,
pharmacogenetics, and identity testing. A thorough yet succinct guide to
using molecular testing technology, Principles and Applications of Molecular Diagnostics
is an essential resource for laboratory professionals, biologists,
chemists, pharmaceutical and biotech researchers, and manufacturers of
molecular diagnostics kits and instruments.
- Explains the principles and tools of molecular biology
- Describes standard and state-of-the-art molecular techniques for obtaining qualitative and quantitative results
- Provides a detailed description of current molecular applications used to solve diagnostics tasks
