Research on Chlamydia test highlighted in The Biomedical Scientist
An article in the April 2011 issue of The Biomedical Scientist describes an ultra-rapid Chlamydia test under development in a collaboration between the Brown group, LGC and OptiGene.
The research, which is based on HyBeacon technology developed previously by LGC and the Brown group, aims to develop a test using urine samples within two years.
Two papers published this week
Two papers have been published in the last three days: Ultrasensitive fluorescence-based methods for nucleic acid detection: towards amplification-free genetic analysis, a review in ChemComm; and Characterization of photophysical and base-mimicking properties of a novel fluorescent adenine analogue in DNA, a paper in Nucleic Acids Research.
Review on ultrasensitive fluorescence-based nucleic acid detection published online in ChemComm
A review entitled Ultrasensitive fluorescence-based methods for nucleic acid detection: towards amplification-free genetic analysis was published online in ChemComm today. The review, written by former group member Rohan Ranasinghe and Tom Brown, summarizes new methods for the detection of nucleic acids, from a chemical perspective.
The paper follows on from an earlier review by Rohan and Tom on a similar topic, Fluorescence based strategies for genetic analysis. This review, published in ChemComm, in 2005, has been cited almost 100 times.