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Mechanism of molecular beacon chemistry. The molecular beacon includes a hairpin loop structure, the loop being complementary to a target sequence and the stem formed by the addition of internal complementary sequences. The molecular beacon hybridises to the target and the fluorophore and quencher are far enough apart to allow fluorescence to be detected (adapted from [213])
