Open AccessHow has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted PCR?
Author(s) -
Joseph Martin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
biotechniques/biotechniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.617
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1940-9818
pISSN - 0736-6205
DOI - 10.2144/btn-2020-0156
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , virology , biology , coronavirus infections , pcr test , computational biology , polymerase chain reaction , genetics , medicine , gene , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , disease
The recent pandemic has posed perhaps the biggest challenge for PCR to date. Is PCR likely to be replaced or will it continue to stand the test of time? [Formula: see text]