Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) – National Human Genome Research Institute

Polymerase chain reaction, PCR. So PCR dates back to the mid-1980s, which is more or less the time when the Human Genome Project was being considered and then started at the end of that decade. PCR has been really fundamental to so much of biology and biomedical research since then. Since we're at the Genome Institute, it's worth noting that it was a fundamental technology behind the early days of the Human Genome Project. And it has played an important role up till today. And it's going to continue to play one for a long time, I suspect, although you never know there's always another groundbreaking technology.

Former Program Director, Genome Technology Program

Division of Genome Sciences

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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) - National Human Genome Research Institute