Recently, Ph.D. student Lei Cao from BEBC has published his first author review in Biosensors and Bioelectronics entitled " Advances in digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) and its emerging biomedical applications ".

This review first discussed the principles of all key steps of dPCR, i.e., sample dispersion, amplification, and quantification, covering commercialized apparatuses and other devices still under lab development. Then, the author highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of different technologies based on these steps, and discussed the emerging biomedical applications of dPCR. Finally, they provide a glimpse of the existing challenges and future perspectives for dPCR. This paper has important reference value in PCR technology, point-of-care testing, precision medical and other research fields.

The work is under the guidance of Feng Xu. The co-authors of the paper include Xingye Cui, Jie Hu, Zedong Li, Jane Ru Choi , lecturer Qingzhen Yang, vice professor Min Lin, professor Ying HuiLi, and professor Feng Xu.