As traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) often contain plant and animal ingredients, DNA extraction and sequencing may be useful to analyze and standardize lots. A group around Kan NING and Hong BAI at Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences has shown that DNA extraction and high-throughput sequencing is a useful tool to define the quality of certain TCM drugs
China Industrial Biotechnology Consortium news, June 4, 2014
Shandong team proposes HTS DNA sequencing to qualify TCM preparations