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Amplification of the amoA Gene of Nitrosococcus oceani Bacteria Using Eppendorf MasterTaq

University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences This application describes the use of the MasterTaq polymerase kit for improving PCR efficiency when studying functio...

Amplification of Mouse cDNAs for Microarrays Using the Eppendorf MasterTaq Kit

BIOGEM, Division of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0349 e-mail: ghardiman@ucsd.edu www.biogem.ucsd.edu Microarray technology, primarily advanced by Pat...

Enhancing PCR* Efficiency with MasterTaq

Experimental Immunopharmacology, Research Center Borstel, Parkallee 22, D-23845 Borstel, Germany. Tel.: +49 4537 188458 Fax: +49 4537 188404 email: jvdbosch@fz-borstel.de This application describes the use of a n...

The Use of MasterTaq Polymerase for PCR with Humic Material-Contaminated DNA

Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstr.1, 28359 Germany Phone: ++49-421-2028-936, Fax: ++49-421-2028-580, email: kravensc@mpi-bremen.de Direct extraction of total DNA from soils or sediments always results in...

HotStarTaq PCR Handbook

For HotStarTaq DNA Polymerase HotStarTaq Master Mix Kit <a href="#...

HotStarTaq DNA Polymerase

For robust amplification in all applications HotStarTaq DNA Polymerase...

Rapid SNP Genotyping of the Pharmacogenomically Important Allele CYP2D6*4 Using Real-Time qPCR on the DNA Engine Opticon 2 System

MJ Research, Inc., South San Francisco, CA A two-color real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) protocol was used on the MJ Research DNA Engine Opticon 2 system to genotype the CYP2D6*4 allele in 211patient samples. Two hydrolysis probes, one labe...

Why IT change management is more important than ever

(PCAOB) will place a greater emphasis on change management within information systems. There are numerous studies, including our own, that show IT change management as a problem area. It is worth making the investment to fix your change management process...

H-1B jobs: Where is the shortage of skilled workers?

133,000 H-1B visa applications submitted in two days was the cover story of this week's <...

Portal to e-records boosts care at Children's Hospital

It recently shortened its name to the Joint Commission, but its recommenda...

IT worker shortage linked to tech enrollment drop

Pending baby-boomer retirements and a decline in IT enrollment could leave employers struggling to meet recruitment goals as university and technical college systems graduate fewer qualifi...

Court bars patent protection for certain gene fragments

At issue was whether certain gene fragment sequences were useful. Most notably whether the gene fragmen...

Criticare gets OK to market portable cardiac monitor

The system is intended to monitor physiological parameters of patients within any healthcare environment. Its design allows a variety...

Medical device industry growing in importance in Midwest

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Education conference focusing on importance of integrating technology

Conference that runs through Friday; as the technologies involved in distance education have expanded, so have the fields involved. In addition to K-12 and higher education instructo...

Action now can help avoid the coming shortage of math and science grads

In 1975, the United States was third among all nations in the percentage of 18-to-24-year-olds who earned science and engineering degrees. Today, it ranks 17th, behind Taiwan and South Korea, Ireland and Italy. Unless that slide in scientific competency is reversed, the nations economic welfare and security will be threatened. That was the conclusion of a report issued in May 2004 by the...

Contrary to popular belief, holidays are an important time to network

During the holiday season (from Thanksgiving to New Year's), it's common for people to take a break from their networking activities. Understandably, people become busy with family and feel an end-of-the-year crunch with their work. Contrary to popular belief, the holiday season is a great time to network because of holiday parties, holiday cards and companies still in hiring mode. <...

Talent shortage? Cmon.

In an election cycle where both candidates admit job loss, and when off-shoring is becoming de rigueur, these numbers seem over-in...

Scout Project plans online library portal with $2.6 million grant

will use a recent $2.6 million grant to develop a program that will provide community and technical college educators access to the National Science...

Could Tommy Thompsons next stop be Transportation, Homeland Security, or the private sector?

That important disclaimer aside, here are some long-shot predictions about what Wisconsins Thompson will be doing after (and if) he leaves as se...

Californians: Stem cells important enough to go into debt for

Californians have approved putting their state into further debt to fund stem-cell research. In election-day polling, 59 percent of California voters approved Proposition 71, which will provide $3 billion in research grants over the next decade. The proposition, which was endorsed by state Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in mid-October, establishes a California Institute for Regenerative...

It's 99 percent certain: Research cannot rely on adult stem cells alone

dismissed scientific research using human embryonic stem cells as little more than an inconsequential sideshow. Michels said he supports the 99 percent of stem cell research that uses adult stem cells...

Facing shortage of U.S. scientists, UW wants to boost math enrollment

As the United States faces a critical shortage of American scientists, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead an effort to attract more students to mathematics...

"My UW Madison" portal migrating to uPortal

the portal used by University of Wisconsin-Madison students, staff and faculty for online organizational and scheduling tasksis migrating to uPortal, the university announced Wednesday. The vendor for...

Sound Focus plans to enter home-entertainment market after taking Governor's prize

Sound Focus has a plan: rework home entertainment with a speaker system that can project different sounds to different places without complicated acoustic engineering. That plan won top honors in the information technology category at Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle's first annual business-plan contest. But for now, Sound Focus is another start-up looking for enough funding to kick-start its en...

Doyle Preaches Importance of Tech Industry at Summit

Madison, Wis. When Gov. Jim Doyle took office last year he faced the largest budget deficit in the history of Wisconsin a gap of nearly 3.2 billion dollars and a challenge that seemed insurmountable for a first-term governor. However, at the 2004 Governors Conference on Economic Development</a...

WTN Interview: Roberta Gassman

, (DWD) is charged with building and strengthening the states workforce. The department has several initiatives underway to create high-end jobs, increase wages, address workforce shortages and provide re-employment and re-training services to Wisconsin workers. Secretar...

Software Company Tackles Energy Shortage Issues

MADISON, WI - At our states current electricity-usage growth rate, we wont have enough power in 15 years, according to the founder of a local educational software company. With a 2.5 percent growth rate, if we dont build more generation, we will not have enough energy to keep the lights on in 15 years, especially in this state, said Deborah Still, founder of Blue Spark, LLC. Paul Wilson,...

Wisconsin Labor Shortage on the Horizon

MADISON, WI In the middle of a recession and high unemployment it seems ironic to speak about a pending labor shortage in Wisconsin, but that was the message to state economic development and political leaders last week in Madison at an event organized by Forward Wisconsin. Terry Ludeman, labor economist for the Department of Workforce Development and one of Wisconsins foremost economis...

Sony Bets Heavy on Wisconsin Digital Entertainment Presence

On July 29th, ) will hold its annual meeting at which shareholders will be asked to vote to approve the purchase of its entire desktop software business including its Sound Forge, Vegas video editing and ACID music creation...