How To: Design Primers for PCR

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How To: Design Primers for PCR

Are you looking to design a primer for your PCR? Jennifer Tsang, Science Communication and Marketing Coordinator at Addgene, is here with some tips for creating successful primers.

Oligonucleotide primers are necessary when running a PCR reaction. One needs to design primers that are complementary to the template region of DNA. They are synthesized chemically by joining nucleotides together.