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What does NAA stand for?

Nucleic Acid Amplification


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Corbett recently settled a 2007 infringement suit brought by Idaho Technologies and the University of Utah Research Foundation regarding eight nucleic acid amplification patents (US Patent Nos.
In October 2005 a more sensitive HIV nucleic acid amplification test (NAT) for blood donations was introduced in South Africa to identify donations made during the window period before seroconversion.
Recognize the first NAT and nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) to receive FDA clearance.
Micronics' platform reduces the volume of reagent and sample required to perform nucleic acid amplification and the overall cost and time to obtain a result.
The market consists of DNA and peptide sequencers, DNA and peptide synthesizers, nucleic acid amplification or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) systems, gel electrophoresis equipment, molecular biology purification kits, microarray-based products, biosensors, bioinformatics and cheminformatics, cell analysis technologies and in vivo animal imaging.
The patented technology was invented in the mid-1980's and relates to pathogen detection methods that achieve high clinical sensitivity by coupling Vysis' reversible target capture technology with enzymatic nucleic acid amplification techniques, such as the polymerase chain reaction, Q-beta replicase, and transcription mediated amplification.
Efforts of Canadian Blood Services (CBS) to screen donor blood for hepatitis C are now bolstered by nucleic acid amplification testing (NAT), which identifies viral genetic material in blood before antibodies are produced, according to Canada NewsWire.
Nucleic acid amplification is one of the most commonly performed molecular biology techniques and is a necessary precursor to a range of methods from gene cloning and site-directed mutagenesis to the quantitative analysis of gene expression.

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