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But I don't do press junkets – especially not state-sponsored ones – so I thought I'd undertake my own assay of the state of Germany, and since walking across cities is what I mostly do (that and write about it), my way was well marked to the point of obviousness.
Each TaqMan qPCR assay is normalized so it requires no control outside of its own assay.
The soluble oestrogen-receptor content of common breast tumours has been measured by 5 different laboratories, each using their own assay procedure.
Copy number data, RNA expression data, and protein expression data were not considered as our own assay only detects single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and small basepair insertions/deletions (INDELs).
In this save vein, when developing one's own assay, it may be a good idea to avoid use of novel proprietary reagents or kits if there is concern about the supplier's ability to supply material consistently or to manufacture the material under GMP, which will be required if a companion diagnostic is required.
Although we use our own assay on the NICU ABLL 835 Flex, Radiometer, Copenhagen, Denmark) for the daily routine with the advantage of being faster, less labor-intensive and less expensive, the central laboratory remains our 'gold standard' as it regulary participates in multi-centre quality assessments.
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For these reasons, unlike genomics, where standards of practice have been widely accepted and off-the-shelf technologies for DNA sequencing have come into wide use, metabolomics remains the realm of experts who devise their own assays and require expensive instrumentation.
Both Mikovits and Ruscetti co-authored the paper, which invalidated their own assays for XMRV.
Although HI is straightforward, most laboratories preferred their own assays.
Part of the confusion is due to the tendency of workers to develop their own assays, and then modify them.
The results shows that studies evaluating this assay are highly heterogeneous, there is no available international standard for CMV PCR, and each study determined its own assays characteristics for their own setup [ 23].
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