New accurate diagnostic test for swine H1N1 influenza using RT-PCR technology
...etic material, enabling rapid detection of new viral strains as they evolve. Using these genetic sequence data and making minor alterations to the PCR primers used in the assay, the test could be easily modified to detect newly emerging viral variants, including avian influenza strains. "Early recognitio...Booster vaccination may help with possible future avian influenza pandemic
...ccompanying editorial, Gregory A. Poland, MD, of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, noted that some are already looking to begin such prevaccination primers against H5N1 influenza. For example, Japan is planning to immunize health care workers starting in 2009, and the U.S. Department of Defense is offerin...Recently discovered virus associated with pediatric respiratory tract infection in Germany
...e genomes of the target viruses or bacteria. If a throat swab contains pathogens with nucleic acid sequences that match those of the primers, then the primers will copy the target DNA several million times. Likewise the molecular tags, different in mass for each of the primers, are also amplified making them...Lab-on-chip testing for 'bird flu' developed by Singapore scientists
...oping the H5N1 detection kits and thus accumulated technical knowledge like primers and cycling conditions for the PCR assay. We are very pleased to see that t...cid diagnostic primers, played a role in the initial designs of the PCR and primers assays in this project. "We have a long journey ahead of us in our batt...TriLink Launches CleanAmp(TM) dNTPs for Hot Start PCR
... CEO and President of TriLink. "TriLink now offers two unique hot start PCR solutions: CleanAmp(TM) dNTPs and CleanAmp(TM) Primers. The CleanAmp(TM) primers will solve specific assay issues whereas CleanAmp(TM) dNTPs will be a more general solution. Either product will provide a very cost effective soluti...TriLink Awarded a Phase II Grant for a Second Hot Start PCR Project
...d Dr. Richard Hogrefe, CEO and President of TriLink. "Now we offer modified primers and modified dNTPs. The CleanAmp(TM) primers will solve specific assay issues whereas the modified dNTPs will be a more ...The Past, Present and Future of HLA Typing
...isen; for example, it is possible to construct PCR primers pre labeled with biotin, and then amplify biotin ...y to detect HLA polymorphisms. In this technique, primers can be constructed specifically to complement HLA polymorphisms; if the primers bind the complementary polymorphism and amplify th...Staphylococcus aureus (SPA) ASR
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... responses in unprecedented ways." Using Xenopus egg extracts as a cell-free system, the researchers found that single-stranded DNA annealed with primers specifically triggers the ATR-mediated checkpoint response. While many proteins involved in the DNA damage response have been uncovered, this type of ...New PCR Primers for Human Diseases
Screen samples for disease states or pathogens Gabriela M. Tobal Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. W. S. Nichols Stratagene is introducing PCR primer sets for detecting 13 human diseases. The sequences of these primers have been published previously and are well character...RT-PCR Primers for the Study of Apoptosis
Investigating programmed cell death Wei-ping Yang Danny Hoang Douglas McKenzie Peter Pingerelli Stratagene The apoptotic response is a complex biological process that requires the regulation of a variety of genes that interact with and respond to intracellular and extr...Gene-Specific Primers for NMDA Receptor Subunits
Additional tools for neuroscience researchers Robert Buchner Peter L. Pingerelli Michael D. Browning Mary Ellen Simcox Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. Stratagene is now offering gene-specific primer sets for the rat and human NMDA receptor. In this article, we descr...Control RT-PCR Primers for Human Gene Transcripts with Varying Abundance
Characterize gene distribution in your cDNA Brenda Rogers Douglas McKenzie Stratagene We introduce six pairs of control RT-PCR primers that are designed to detect specific human gene transcripts with various expression levels. These primer sets provide insig...Choice of reverse transcription primers
Priming affects the size and specificity of the cDNA produced. There are three types of primers that may be used for reverse transcription: Oligo(dT)1218, which binds to the endogenous poly(A) + tail at...Jivan Focuses on Solutions for Transcriptome Sequencing
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