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More than 40 years after the invention of semiconductor pH microtransducers known as ISFETs, this transistor-based technology may revolutionize quantitative PCR.

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Figure 1: The ISFET-qPCR device's potential for increased parallelism.

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  1. Carlotta Guiducci and Fabio M. Spiga are at the Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,

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Guiducci, C., Spiga, F. Another transistor-based revolution: on-chip qPCR. Nat Methods 10, 617–618 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2525

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