Despite the wide variation in bone marrow aspirate specimen cellularity, we describe a series of novel quality control measurements that reliably produce high quality gene expression data, suitable for clinical use.
When first developed, SEM was used to image fixed/dehydrated/gold coated specimens, but here we describe more recent SEM developments as they apply to fungal cells.
Among 26 melanoma resection specimens, we here describe three silent point mutations and two frame shifts of the PTEN/MMAC1 cDNA sequence.
In a new paper I have published today with my co-author Darren Tanke, we describe a specimen of the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus from Alberta, Canada that uniquely shows bites marks inflicted by other tyrannosaurs both during its life and after it had died.
In the present contribution we describe this specimen, its geological provenance, analyze its phylogenetic relationships, and discuss the implications of its anatomy for understanding the evolutionary origin of Sauropoda, with particular emphasis on the pattern of character acquisition in the evolution of the sacrum and body size in Sauropodomorpha.
We describe exceptional specimens of a new early middle Eocene (47.5 Ma) protocetid whale, Maiacetus inuus, that include an adult female skeleton, a near term fetal skeleton, and an adult male skeleton.
We describe new specimens of Mesozoic mantis shrimps (Stomatopoda, Malacostraca) that exhibit morphological and developmental information previously unknown.
From other eight T-matched pair of samples whose frozen specimens were not stored, we also obtained DNA from paraffine-embedded specimens by microdissection techniques as we described in the previous report (Kazama et al, 2006), resulting in obtaining all the 20 T-matched pairs of samples in this LOH analysis.
For silica-dried samples and herbarium specimens, we followed the protocol described by Oxelman et al. [ 31] and performed subsequent purification using the Qiagen QIAquick Purification Kit protocol, Ultra Silica Bead kit (ABgene), or GFX PCR DNA and Gel Band Purification Kit (Amersham Biosciences).
We also accessed microbiology records of cultured empyema and pleural effusion specimens to describe the trends in the epidemiology and microbiology of empyema.
