Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in a test sample. Its presence or absence in the sample is determined by nucleic acid based testing methods using primers and/or probes and or molecular beacons that bind to the 16S or 23S ribosomal genes or gene transcripts.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for detecting amplicon generated using loop-mediated amplification (LAMP). In particular, the invention relates to compositions comprising molecular beacons and/or LAMP primers and methods for generating and detecting LAMP amplicons. In particular, molecular beacons that bind to novel regions of a LAMP amplicon, and methods of using these probes, are provided.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in a test sample. Its presence or absence in the sample is determined by nucleic acid based testing methods using primers and/or probes and or molecular beacons that bind to the 16S or 23S ribosomal genes or gene transcripts.

Abstract: A method of making a porous polymeric material by heating a mixture comprising polyvinylidene fluoride and a solvent system initially comprising a first component that is a latent solvent for polyvinylidene fluoride and a second component that is a non-solvent for polyvinylidene fluoride wherein, at elevated temperature, polyvinylidene fluoride dissolves in the solvent system to provide an optically clear solution. The solution is then rapidly cooled so that non-equilibrium liquid-liquid phase separation takes place to form a continuous polymer rich phase and a continuous polymer lean phase with the two phases being intermingled in the form of bicontinuous matrix of large interfacial area, and cooling is continued until the polymer rich phase solidifies. The polymer lean phase is removed from the solid polymeric material.