Sayers, who is competing in Beijing, said she no longer has faith in Russian athletes after the Sunday Times claimed it was "the blood-testing epicentre of the world" with more than 80% of the country's medals at world championships and Olympics between 2001 and 2012 won by athletes with suspicious blood tests.
Therefore, regions from pons and medulla are expected to contribute mostly noise to the correlation analysis intended to test the epicentre model of disease spread.
Last week, Shoebridge paid a visit to the epicentre of the police roadside drug testing blitz: the Northern Rivers region of NSW.
Results from all three tests were collated by CERMES and sent to Epicentre for analysis.
Three ligase enzymes were tested: pfu DNA ligase (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA), ampligase (Epicentre, Madison, WI, USA), and taq ligase (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA, USA).
Tests with commercial PCR optimization kits like the FailSafe PCR system (Epicentre, 12 different conditions) did not outperform the a/b/c/d conditions with Phusion polymerase.
A large protest test camp remained in place on Independence Square, the plaza that is the epicentre of the protests.
In 2011, test drilling had to be suspended after two earthquakes in the area, with the epicentre thought to be 500m from the well in Weeton, Lancashire.
Two different aminoallyl-UTP solutions: aaUTP Li-salt (Epicentre, Madison, WI, USA) and aaUTP Na-salt (Fermentas, Vilnius, Lithuania), were tested separately to determine the optimal concentration range for both.
Balcombe, a pretty village set amid rolling hills in Sussex, became the epicentre of the UK's first major anti-fracking protests two years ago, when the fracking company Cuadrilla began test drilling for oil exploration at a site just over a mile away.
