The described platform can be adapted to monitor the other types of abused drugs by using suitably selected biorecognition elements.
The DCDC method, which could be adapted to monitor a wide range of microbes, could be applied broadly in gastrointestinal research to illuminate what happens in the "dark zone" of mammalian guts when diet, environment, and health conditions change or experimental interventions are introduced.
The presented BAN-specific qPCR assay can be applied in animal feeding trials, in order to control the correct inclusion rates of the probiotic to the feed, and it could further be adapted, to monitor the uptake of the probiotic into the gastrointestinal tract of broiler chickens.
In the future, the technology could be adapted to monitor other wildlife in the park - such as birds.
SS was created for the early detection of potential bioterrorism agents and communicable diseases, and has been adapted to monitor non-communicable and chronic disease trends (Paterson and Durrheim 2013).
In addition, polysomal profiling can be adapted to monitor translation of specific mRNAs [5].
This assay may also be utilized to detect surface antigens in a range of cell types, and thus may be adapted to monitor the B cell-derived antibody repertoire in different disease contexts.
The primer/template and composition of the exogenous DNA precursor pool can be adapted to monitor replication fidelity in cell extracts expressing various error-prone Pols or mutator variants of accurate Pols.
While, we have used the approach described here to obtain relative information on the rate of protein synthesis in animals with impaired mRNA translation, the method can be adapted to monitor other facets of gene expression such as DNA transcription, RNA splicing, mRNA transport and turnover, and protein maturation.
For example, this assay could be adapted to monitor the association of certain proteins with differently modified core histones.
