This Week in Nucleic Acids Research

Jan 25, 2012

In a methods paper published online in advance in Nucleic Acids Research this week, Stanford University's Emily Harcourt and Eric Kool present an approach for isothermal amplified detection of miRNA based on two nucleic acid-templated chemistry steps. Harcourt and Kool say that their doubly templated double-amplification approach offers "significant advantages in ease of operation for miRNA detection."

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