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Preventing Carry-over Contamination with Uracil-DNA Glycosylase

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can amplify a single molecule over a billionfold. Thus, even minuscule amounts of a contaminant can be amplified and lead to a false positive result. Such contaminants are often products from previous PCR amplifications (carry-over contamination). Therefore, rese...

Combine High Yield, Great Accuracy and the Prevention of Carry-over Contamination by Using the Novel Expand High FidelityPLUS PCR System

Roche Applied Science pioneered the blending of thermostableDNA polymerases and the associated buffersystems. The well-known Expand High Fidelity andExpand Long Template PCR Systems were the first commerciallyavailable blends to provide amplification offragments up t...

Can we prevent Web 2.0 from being a bubble?

I heard from a number of readers who are more than a little suspicious that Web 2.0 is spelled b-u-b-b-l-e, and who want none of it. As one reader, whom I greatly respect, put it: The industry could use a healthy dose of caution to prevent the heavy Kool-Aid drink...

Thompson To Chair MDVIP Committee On Preventive Healthcare

MDVIP is a provider of personalized healthcare made up of a network of 82 physicians in 14 states. Member physicians limit their practices...

Preview: Electronic health records, tech choices explored at Digital Healthcare Conference

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced yesterday that a new organization, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) will be formed to make recommendations for a nationwide system for storing and sharing patient's medical records electronically. This news makes the , which wi...

Businesses and educators to preview video games for training

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How 40-plus tech job seekers can prevent age discrimination

CHICAGO If you're on the Midwest technology job market today, youve learned something about writing resumes and cover letters. You've also learned something about interviewing, thank-you letters and follow-up calls to recruiters and hiring managers. If youre an older job seeker, though, you may have run into an obstacle that frustrates every attempt to surmount your search: your age. W...

Entrepreneurs Preview Liberating Technologies

Scottsdale, Ariz. -- The The conference, now in its 14th year, attracts interna...