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Glossary Term
The sample-preparation stage that lyses cells or virions and purifies DNA/RNA before amplification. Extraction quality (yield, purity, inhibitors removed) often limits assay performance more than the PCR itself, and it defines required instruments and hands-on time in a workflow.
Glossary Term
A subunit of DNA or RNA consisting of a nitrogenous base (adenine, guanine, thymine, or cytosine in DNA; adenine, guanine, uracil, or cytosine in RNA), a phosphate molecule, and a sugar molecule (deoxyribose in DNA and ribose in RNA).
Glossary Term
Short DNA oligonucleotide chains used to prime DNA (and in some cases RNA) synthesis.
Article
Research record from Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 2026-10-26. PMID 42928317.
Glossary Term
The enzymatic processing of a polypeptide chain after translation from messenger RNA and after peptide bond formation has occurred. Examples include glycosylation, acylation, limited proteolysis, phosphorylation, isoprenylation.
Glossary Term
General term for a piece of DNA or RNA corresponding to a gene or sequence of interest, that has been labelled either radioactively or with some other detectable molecule, such as biotin, digoxygenin or fluorescein. As stretches of DNA or RNA with complementary sequences will hybridize, a probe will label viral plaques, bacterial colonies or bands on a gel that contain the gene of interest.
Glossary Term
A DNA sequence at which RNA polymerase binds and initiates transcription.
Article
Research record from Clin Chem Lab Med, 2026-05-07. PMID 42089532.
Indicators
This gene is involved in RNA binding and processing.
Tests
The determination of the amount of replication competent lentivirus RNA present in a sample.
Tests
The determination of the amount of respiratory syncytial virus RNA in a biological sample.
Tests
The determination of the respiratory syncytial virus type A RNA in a sample.
