Breaking Leukemia's Limits of Detection with Droplet Digital PCR

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Prof. Alec Morley, a pioneer in digital PCR, describes his use of Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) technology to advance the diagnosis and treatment of leukemia. Morley and his colleagues at Flinders University and Medical Center in Adelaide, South Australia previously developed a digital PCR method for the early detection of residual acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) using a genetic marker instead of traditional microscopy of bone marrow cells, enabling more accurate prediction of relapse risk for ALL patients following chemotherapy.