National Cancer Institute (source definition)
Real Time PCR
An application of PCR that measures the products generated during each cycle of the polymerase chain reaction process in order to determine the starting amount of template in the reaction.
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2026-10-18
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What it is
An application of PCR that measures the products generated during each cycle of the polymerase chain reaction process in order to determine the starting amount of template in the reaction.
Source: National Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus 26.09d, C51962. NCI definition, reproduced without modification under CC BY 4.0.
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