Sturgeons are considered as living fossils and have very high evolutionary, economical and conservation values. The multiploidy of sturgeon that has been caused by chromosome duplication may lead to the emergence of new microRNAs (miRNAs) involved in the ploidy and ...
Read More »Study finds RNA-Seq, like microarrays, only accurate for relative expression, not absolute quantitation
The collborators at the SEQC/MAQC-III Consortium present primary results from the Sequencing Quality Control (SEQC) project, coordinated by the US Food and Drug Administration. Examining Illumina HiSeq, Life Technologies SOLiD and Roche 454 platforms at multiple laboratory sites using reference ...
Read More »Methods for Quantifying Gene Expression in Ecoimmunology: From qPCR to RNA-Seq
Historically, the use of cutting-edge molecular techniques to study immunological gene expression and related cellular pathways has been largely limited to model organisms. Few studies have been performed that quantify the molecular immunological responses of non-model species, especially in response ...
Read More »Cost comparison for qRT-PCR and RNA-Seq
Gene expression studies are widely diffused in life science research. So far, the most popular techniques adopted for transcript quantification are Northern blot, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), reverse transcription quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), microarrays, and RNA ...
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