plaque assays การใช้

• The viral plaque assay is to calculate the number of viruses present in a sample.
• While less accurate than a plaque assay, it is cheaper and quicker ( taking just 30 minutes ).
• Viral plaque assays determine the number of plaque forming units ( pfu ) in a virus sample, which is one measure of virus quantity.
• When, in the 1950s, she and Dulbecco were developing the plaque assay for studying the polio virus, she again did much of the work, laboring under a hood in a basement with a pathogen that other biochemists wouldn't touch.