“Products created during setup decrease the efficiency of PCR,” says Joseph Donnenhoffer of Roche. The company's FastStart Taq polymerase has a one-base deletion that renders the enzyme ...

Today, PCR is ubiquitous in molecular biology laboratories ... Stoffel purified a thermostable DNA polymerase from Thermus aquaticus—the now-famous Taq polymerase—which survives denaturing ...

Since PCR's advent, scientists have developed filters to manage ... more tightly around the DNA in the active site,” said McLaren. They aimed to improve Taq polymerase by incorporating this feature ...

Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is a laboratory technique used to make multiple copies of a segment of DNA. PCR is very precise and can be used to amplify, or copy, a specific DNA target from a ...