dPCR: a technology review

PL Quan, M Sauzade, E Brouzes - Sensors, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (dPCR) is a novel method for the absolute quantification
of target nucleic acids. Quantification by dPCR hinges on the fact that the random …

Passive and active droplet generation with microfluidics: a review

P Zhu, L Wang - Lab on a Chip, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Precise and effective control of droplet generation is critical for applications of droplet
microfluidics ranging from materials synthesis to lab-on-a-chip systems. Methods for droplet …

Photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence emission and blinking suppression for single quantum dot digital resolution biosensing

Y **ong, Q Huang, TD Canady, P Barya, S Liu… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
While nanoscale quantum emitters are effective tags for measuring biomolecular
interactions, their utilities for applications that demand single-unit observations are limited by …

Self-powered integrated microfluidic point-of-care low-cost enabling (SIMPLE) chip

EC Yeh, CC Fu, L Hu, R Thakur, J Feng, LP Lee - Science advances, 2017‏ - science.org
Portable, low-cost, and quantitative nucleic acid detection is desirable for point-of-care
diagnostics; however, current polymerase chain reaction testing often requires time …

The Digital MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Digital PCR Experiments

JF Huggett, CA Foy, V Benes, K Emslie… - Clinical …, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
There is growing interest in digital PCR (dPCR) because technological progress makes it a
practical and increasingly affordable technology. dPCR allows the precise quantification of …

Highly precise measurement of HIV DNA by droplet digital PCR

MC Strain, SM Lada, T Luong, SE Rought, S Gianella… - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) provides the most
sensitive measurement of residual infection in patients on effective combination antiretroviral …

Rapid pathogen-specific phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing using digital LAMP quantification in clinical samples

NG Schoepp, TS Schlappi, MS Curtis… - Science translational …, 2017‏ - science.org
Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is urgently needed for informing treatment
decisions and preventing the spread of antimicrobial resistance resulting from the misuse …

Advances in digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) and its emerging biomedical applications

L Cao, X Cui, J Hu, Z Li, JR Choi, Q Yang, M Lin… - Biosensors and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Since the invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 1985, PCR has played a
significant role in molecular diagnostics for genetic diseases, pathogens, oncogenes and …

Comparison of microfluidic digital PCR and conventional quantitative PCR for measuring copy number variation

AS Whale, JF Huggett, S Cowen, V Speirs… - Nucleic acids …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
One of the benefits of Digital PCR (dPCR) is the potential for unparalleled precision
enabling smaller fold change measurements. An example of an assessment that could …

Advances in droplet digital polymerase chain reaction on microfluidic chips

D Xu, W Zhang, H Li, N Li, JM Lin - Lab on a Chip, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The PCR technique has been known to the general public since the pandemic outbreak of
COVID-19. This technique has progressed through three stages: from simple PCR to real …