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Gene manipulation on plastic plates

Oligonucleotide-immobilized plastic plates provide a rapid and easy-to-use tool for use in mRNA research, including the long-term storage, amplification and detection of the specific message, in vitro synthesis of both strands of sense and antisense mRNA, and ligation of cDNA to other DNA molecules.

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Mitsuhashi, M., Keller, C. & Akitaya, T. Gene manipulation on plastic plates. Nature 357, 519–520 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/357519a0

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