A multi-agency coordination centre was set up, containing personnel from most of the groups that had participated in the Urban Shield exercises – Boston police, firefighters and emergency medical, Massachusetts state police, the National Guard and Coast Guard, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBII), and the Boston Athletic Association, which organises the race.
Mesocosms were set up, containing treatments with a plant, an earthworm species, or both.
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In addition, since the Delvotest SP-NT appeared to lack specificity, a list of antibiotics was set up containing the positive LC-MS/MS results and those for which there were more negative than positive Delvotest SP-NT.
In each of at least three experimental replicates per EPN and concentration, three sets of ten small bioassay arenas were set up containing one white grub each (Table 2), as bioassay arenas served toothpick boxes (3 cm diameter × 7 cm high, 3 holes of 2 mm in the lid).
In all experiments duplicates were set up containing the POWER SYBR Green PCR Master Mix (Applied Biosystems) reagent.
The reaction mix was set up containing 20 U ligase, 5 U BpiI and 5 U BsaI, in a total reaction volume of 20 µl.
25µl PCR reactions were set up containing 2µl of template, 2.5µl 10× buffer (Roche Applied Biosystems), and final concentrations of 1.5 mM Mg, 6% DMSO, 0.5 µM primers, 0.8 mM total dNTP (0.2 mM each) and 1U HotStart Polymerase (Roche Applied Biosystems).
A control chamber was set up containing water alone.
The reaction was set up containing 50 mM sodium acetate buffer pH 5.6, 0.2% guaiacol, 0.3%H2O22, and enzyme extract.
The PCR reaction was set up containing UDG-digested DNA, primer A and B, Phusion HF Buffer, dNTP, water, and Phusion II (New England Biolabs).
