Over the last four decades nucleic acid hybridization techniques have been widely used for
the detection of specific nucleic acid sequences. In this approach a 15-nucleotide or longer …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death among adults with
diabetes, and CVD prevention remains a major challenge. Coronary artery calcium (CAC) …

Background Trichoderma reesei is the main industrial producer of cellulases and
hemicellulases that are used to depolymerize biomass in a variety of biotechnical …

Sugar beet root rot diseases that occur during the cropping season or in storage are
accompanied by high yield losses and a severe reduction of processing quality. The vast …

In April 2009, a new influenza A (H1N1 2009) virus emerged that rapidly spread around the
world. While current variants of this virus have caused widespread disease, particularly in …

Background To investigate translational regulation of gene expression in plant mitochondria,
a mitochondrial polysome isolation protocol was established for tobacco to investigate …

Consumer demand for lean, inexpensive meat products has driven the domestic turkey
(Meleagris gallopavo) industry to unprecedented production; however, this has coincided …

Background Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays are important tools widely used
for genotyping and copy number estimation. This technology utilizes the specific affinity of …

For designing oligonucleotide tiling arrays popular, current methods still rely on simple
criteria like Hamming distance or longest common factors, neglecting base stacking effects …

In the present study, for the first time an attempt was made to isolate microsatellites in finger
millet using pre-cloning enrichment (selective hybridization) strategy which resulted in …