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International Diabetes Federation grant supports study to prevent type 2 diabetes in India

...public health recommendations, which will result in broader diabetes prevention efforts in India and other South Asian countries. "India is at the epicentre of the diabetes pandemic. Every effort must be taken to prevent the devastating human, social and economic effects of diabetes," said Dr. Linda Simine...

New Book Pays Homage to Madrid's Eclectic Culinary Traditions

... Madrid is the culinary melting pot of a country which has been named the epicentre of the gourmet world by the New York Times, the author of a new book on Spa...s received a shot in the arm since the New York Times in 2003 dubbed it the epicentre of the gourmet world rather than France. But before that, Spain had...

GPS Could Help to Identify High Risk Zones

...free, the release can cause devastating earthquakes as the Earths surface lifts or falls. Because the worst damage occurs when an earthquake's epicentre is right under a metropolitan area, the team, according to nature.com, is now working to confirm the locked zone's location. Potential catas...

Earthquake Kills Three, Injures 290 in Southwest China

...t China's Yunnan province Sunday. The quake shook the old downtown area of Hani and Yi county of Ning'er, in Pu'er city at 5:34 a.m., with the epicentre at 23 degrees north and 101.1 degrees east, according to the China Earthquake Administration. The quake also forced the evacuation of 120,000 ...

Child Vaccines a Key Issue for OIC Forum in Malaysia

...ries, which account for 11 of the 16 highest rates of mortality in children under five in the world, according to conference organisers. "The epicentre of the global crisis is in sub-Saharan Africa, where the under-five mortality rate is more than twice the world average," the OIC ministers said in a ...

Moderate Quake Injures 35 in Iran

... treatment. Several bulidings were destroyed when a moderate// quake measuring 4.8 on Richter scale hit Iran's Lorestan province Wednesday. The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at 2 a.m., was at Daroud city in west Iran, said an official of the city governor's office. The shards of glass fr...

AIIMS Official Files Complaint Against Venugopal

... been mired in controversy since the central government decided to introduce quotas for other backward classes last year. The institute, which was the epicentre of an anti-quota agitation, was also in the news due to the tussle between Ramadoss and Venugopal over the last eight months. Source-IANS...

AIIMS Goes to Polls Amid Reservation Issues

...aving thousands of patients from across the country to suffer. Nearly 8,000 patients are treated everyday at AIIMS. The institute had become the epicentre of the nation-wide anti-quota stir. Mass protests were held in August as well to prevent the reservation bill from being tabled in parliament. S...

Two AIDS Vaccine Trials Hold Hope Against Epidemic

...land-based International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) several years ago to pursue the idea. "Now attention is focused on the fact that the epicentre of the epidemic is moving toward poor, married women," IPM spokeswoman Pam Norick said. Vaccine development has been slow for good reason, acco...

Russia Bans British Poultry Products

... that Japan had previously banned poultry, eggs and even breeding birds from Britain. // While Hong Kong has banned exports from Norfolk, which is the epicentre of bird flu alert. Peter Mandelson, the European Trade Commissioner, is now being urged to put pressure on Russia to accept most British poultry...

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Fractional dose of scarce meningitis vaccine may be effective in outbreak control

...ces to be stretched further, especially during epidemics in Africa. In a study initiated by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, together with epicentre (the research arm of Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires), and Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda, immune responses in ...

Nitrogen -- the silent species eliminator

... if the effects are the same on a wider range of grasslands, across the entire Atlantic side of Europe. The low countries and northern Germany are the epicentre of European nitrogen deposition, says Gowing. 70 new grasslands in at least nine countries have been added to the picture, including different type...

New study suggests promising drug combinations for sleeping sickness

...aharan Africa and is a serious disease for which there are few treatment options. The most commonly used drug, Melarsoprol, is highly toxic. MSF and epicentre jointly carried out a trial that started in 2001 in Uganda to evaluate the efficacy and safety of three drug combinations for this disease. The aim ...

Emerald Spectre haunts Ontario's ash forests

...mpact than Dutch elm disease. The soon-to-be published study is the first to document the invasive beetle's rate and distribution of spread from its epicentre in the Windsor-Detroit area. "In the Great Lakes region this beetle invasion is mushrooming out like an atomic bomb going off," says the study's c...

WHO suspends Marburg work, appeals for new funds

...ed and damaged by local residents. As the situation has not improved, no surveillance teams were operational today in this province, which remains the epicentre of the outbreak. WHO staff in Uige were notified today of several fatalities but teams were unable to investigate the cause of death or collect the...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...Ministry of Health in Angola has reported 266 cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Of these cases, 244 were fatal. In Uige Province, which remains the epicentre of the outbreak, 253 cases, of which 233 have been fatal, were reported as of 21 April. Assessment of the outbreak The international response to ...

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Monitoring Microbial Populations Using Real-Time qPCR on the MJ Research Opticon 2 System

... and final reaction concentrations are listed in Table 1. SGI was from Molecular Probes (S-7567). MasterAmp PCR premix F was from epicentre Technologies (MHF-925F). AmpliTaq was from Applied Biosystems (4338856). Reaction components were assembled in white-shell/white...

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Proteinase K from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description: Component in MasterPure™ Purification Kits...
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TE Buffer from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

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MasterAmp 2X PCR PreMix F without (NH4)2SO4 from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description: Sold individually or included in the MasterAmp™ PCR Optimization Kit without ammonium sulfate. Includes dNTPs, buffer, and varying amounts of MgCl2 and the MasterAmp™ PCR Enhancer (with betaine)....
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MasterAmp Taq PCR Core Kit from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description: Complete PCR kit. Includes: MasterAmp™ Taq DNA Polymerase, 10X PCR Buffer, MasterAmp™ 10X PCR Enhancer, dNTP Mix, 2.5 mM each, 25 mM MgCl2, Enzyme Dilution Buffer, Control Template and Primers Mix...
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FailSafe PROBES Real-Time PCR Optimization Kit from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description: The FailSafe™ PROBES Real-Time PCR System enables rapid, precise optimization of PCR experiments in which the product is detected using fluorescent target-specific labeled probes....
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MasterPure Plant Leaf DNA Purification Kit from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description: The MasterPure™ Plant Leaf DNA Purification Kit is designed for isolating DNA from 35-100 mg of fresh plant leaf tissue. The protocol can be completed in less than one hour and may be scaled up to obtain larger amounts of DNA. The purified DNA can be used for PCR amplification, restriction dig...
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TE Buffer from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

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DNA Fragment 2X Precipitation Solution from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description: Enables rapid purification of double-stranded DNA fragments = 200 bp, including, for example, PCR reaction products, DNA fragments obtained in restriction enzyme digests, or double-stranded cDNA...
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RNase III, E. coli from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description: Ribonuclease III (RNase III) from E. coli is an endoribonuclease that specifically digests double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to dsRNA fragments that have 2-base, 3'-overhangs. Complete digestion of dsRNA results in dsRNA fragments of 12-15 bp. RNase III can digest double-stranded RNA composed of canoni...
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GELase 50X Reaction Buffer from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies

Description: Component of GELase™ Agarose Gel-Digesting Preparation. 1 ml of 50X Buffer is sufficient for replacing the buffer in at least 5 g of gel....
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EPICENTRE in Biological Dictionary

Transposon

...ts, much of transposon impact may be deleterious to their ... Historically, transposon discovery and analysis have been primarily conducted ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... However, if the transposon is prepared by restriction enzyme digestion...

Transposase

... Transposase is a hyperactive. enzyme that is at least 50 times more active ... MuA Transposase can also catalyze transposi- tion of other ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... HyperMu Transposase can also catalyze transposition of other artificial ...

T7 RNA Polymerase

...ting RNA chains from DNA genes as templates, a process called transcription. RNA polymerase enzymes are essential to life and are found in... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, and RNA research. EPICENTRE's products are used worldwide in a broad range of ...

RNase

...ical definition of RNase from A Dictionary of Biology at Encyclopedia.com ... Each RNase has a specificity for a different cleavage site. ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... Ribonuclease R ( RNase R) from E. coli is a magnesium-dependent 3'5' ... ...

RecA protein

...A protein is unable to bypass the medial heterology ... However RecA (wt) protein is able to bypass such heterology in a similar reaction ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... In vitro, RecA Protein helps promote homologous recombination through ...

Polymerase

...nition,biology terminology,biology terms,biology abbreviations ... DNA polymerase occurs naturally in living organisms, where it functions to ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... DisplaceAce™ DNA Polymerase . dsDNA Conversion Kit for RiboMultiplier™ sRNA...

Ligase

...nformatics Institute ... In human DNA ligase I (P18858), and in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Baker's yeast) ... DNA ligase , conserved site ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... Thermostable RNA Ligase . rGka DNA Polymerase. RNA 5' Polyphosphatase ... ...

Exonuclease

..., S.G., Weiss, B., Exonuclease III of Escherichia coli K-12, an AP ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... ...clease VII digestion of ssDNA occurs in the absence of magnesium. ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... L...

Endonuclease

...gical,biolog y dictionary,biology terminology,biology terms,biology abbreviations ... endonuclease that initiates excision repair at apurinic ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... T4 Endonuclease V has N-glycosylase and apurinic/apyrimidinic lyase (AP .....

DNA polymerase

...can add free nucleotides to only the 3' end of the newly-forming strand. ... No known DNA polymerase is able to begin a new chain (de novo) ... epicentre develops and manufactures reagents and kits for genomics, proteomics, ... DisplaceAce™ DNA Polymerase . dsDNA Conversion Kit for RiboMultiplier™ sR...