Gintarė Gervaitytė

TITLE: Exploring the Possibilities of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification

In the face of the rising prevalence of infectious diseases, the need for rapid testing has never been more important. Technologies like Loop-mediated isothermal amplification can be a great solution for the fast and simple detection of infectious diseases. LAMP is a method used for DNA amplification under isothermal conditions that utilizes a DNA polymerase with strong strand displacement activity, such as Bst DNA polymerase. Because of the method‘s simplicity and rapidity, it has become a valuable technology for on-the-spot diagnostics and can be adapted to create molecular tests suitable for point-of-care applications.