have warned that allowing their COVID-19 vaccines to be copied without their permission through recourse to compulsory licensing “would undermine innovation and raise the risk of unsafe viruses

There is no evidence that intellectual property rights are a genuine barrier for accessibility of COVID‐​19‐​related medicines and technologies

Earthworms don’t do well in these hot temperatures compared to red wigglers which have a higher tolerance for temperature differences (they can survive at temperatures between 32 and 95°F / 0 - 35°C).

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unexpected extra cluster of positive droplets with fluorescence intensity less than the cluster containing the target of interest can be caused by a sequence variant in the target of interest

The similarity between pBBR1 and some plasmids of gram-positive bacteria has led us to precisely examine its mobilization function

The pUB origin of replication stems from Staphylococcus aureus and is known to be active in a wide range of low GC Gram-positive bacteria (Firmicutes)

For many scientists, a new discovery is followed by a plan to make money, to form a company and get a patent.

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Plasmids are then recovered from yeast DNA by transforming into E. coli

, a hot-start PCR enzyme that prevents non-specific amplification from mispriming or primer-dimer formation during reaction mixture preparation

dsDNA substrate is best for insertions or deletions greater than approximately 20 nucleotides, while ssDNA substrate is best for point mutations or changes of only a few base pairs. 

In contrast, SLiCE is an in vitro recombination method facilitated by bacterial cell extracts.

perhaps immunity will fade faster, for instance. But holding to the current dosing schedules means a slower vaccination program and more deaths.

when assembling Escherichia coli K12 MG1655. This genome can only be assembled into a single contig when the read length exceeds the size of the longest repeat in the genome, a multi-copy rDNA operon

AS-PCR was developed over 30 years ago (Petruska et al., 1988; Wu et al., 1989) and is commonly used for molecular genotyping in laboratory diagnostics

When you have the data-variable in a function argument (i.e. an env-variable that holds a promise2), you need to embrace the argument by surrounding it in doubled braces, like filter(df, {{ var }})

will show in real-time what downstream processes have been completed for each sample.

filtered onto a track-etched membrane (pore size: 0.2 µm, Whatman CycloporeTM, UK). Filters were placed on agar-solidified (15 g/l) SW or MC medium

Phanta Max Super-Fidelity DNA Polymerase is a new generation superior enzyme based on Pfu DNA Polymerase for robust PCR with extreme fidelity. High amplification efficiency and template adaptability makes Phanta Max suitable for almost all PCR reactions. The unique extension factor, specificity-promoting factors and plateau-inhibiting factor in Phanta Max greatly improve its long-fragment amplification ability, specificity and yield

The enzyme offers fast amplification and strong strand displacement capabilities, making it ideal for nucleic acid amplification methods such as whole genome amplification, multiple displacement amplification and isothermal amplification.

patent protections and the profits they derive are a requirement for the innovation that yields lifesaving medicines.

the kinetics of hybridization remain poorly understood, and no models or algorithms have been reported that accurately predict hybridization rate constants from sequence and reaction conditions (temperature and salinity). This knowledge deficiency has adversely impacted the research community by requiring either trial-and-error optimization of DNA primer and probe sequences for new genetic regions of interest, or brute-force use of thousands of DNA probes for target enrichment

resulting suspension was transferred onto sterile 0,2 μm nitrocellulose filters (Advantec) that were placed over 10% TSB agar media

2 ml of mating suspension was transferred to a sterile 0.22-μm Cyclopore membrane (Whatman) by vacuum filtration (<0.4 mbar)

Patients in the placebo group received identical-looking tablets and drops

use of plasmid DNA enabled lower depth sequencing, and assemblies sufficient for full antimicrobial resistance gene annotation were obtained with as few as 2,000 to 5,000 reads, which could be acquired in 20 min of sequencing

Make sure the 3′ end of the primer contains a C or G residue, because T and A residues bind more easily to DNA in a non-specific way

methylated motifs. These motifs often differ among species and strains24,25, making it possible to use combinations of methylated motifs (endogenous epigenetic barcode) for metagenomic binning.

Our method takes advantage of these endogenous epigenetic barcodes to resolve individual reads and assembled contigs into species- and strain-level bins

This work facilitates the reporting of promoters in absolute units, the variability in their activity across a population, and their quantitative toll on cellular resources

getting severely ill when infected with TB if they inherited two copies of a rare variant of the immune gene TKY2, called P1104A.

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The TURBO DNA-free™ Kit contains reagents for the efficient, complete digestion of DNA along with the removal of the enzyme and divalent cations post-digestion.

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Pointing to the country's priority list, announced way ahead of the vaccine rollout earlier this month, he said, "In the first seven to eight months, we are focused on the 30 crore people, about which we have talked quite often and we know who those people are, who are the needier".

viXra will be open to anybody for both reading and submitting articles. We will not prevent anybody from submitting and will only reject articles in extreme cases of abuse, e.g. where the work may be vulgar, libellous, plagiaristic or dangerously misleading.

Our preferred gender pronoun for generic references is the female: “she”, “her”, etc.

Plate-reader measurements of bacterial growth in the presence of various antibiotic concentrations were used for MIC values. For the strains used in conjugative experiments (both within and across genera) as well as the post-conjugation transconjugants,

He picked himself for the match so as to fulfill the BCCI criterion (which requires state administrators to have at least one first-class match experience) for becoming a selector at the state level. After the match, he appointed himself as the chairman of selectors of HPCA Ranji trophy cricket team

curcumin doesn’t have any of the basic qualifications of a good pharmaceutical. Studies have shown that rats absorb less than 1% of the curcumin they eat.

Urban Governance in India -- Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan)

A ribosome typically covers 10 codon positions and hence ℓ = 10 with the A-site of the ribosome located at the sixth codon position in this segment

We have identified several safe insertion regions (SIRs) within E. coli MG1655 that do not contain any known genes or regulatory regions

Aminimumof%20basepairsinacompletelyhomologoussegmentisrequiredforsignificantrecombination.Thereisanexponentialincreaseinthefre-quencyofrecombinationwhenthelengthofhomologousDNAisincreasedfrom20basepairsto74basepairsandanapparentlylinearincreasewithlongerDNAsegments.Mis-matcheswithinahomologoussegmentcandramaticallyde-creasethefrequencyofrecombination.

However, to our knowledge, there is no study that compares microbial communities in different CW designs with different wetland plant species treating pesticides.

newly acquired spacers derived from pTrig were 34 times more prevalent in response to the signal than without, increasing from 0.038(±0.004)% to 1.28(±0.03)% among all arrays in the cell populations

cellular data recorders offer the capacity to measure biologically relevant signals15,16,17,18,19 in places that are otherwise difficult to access, such as inside the body20,21, and over time22

Dr Samiran Panda, a scientist at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), told The Wire Science earlier this week that the “mode” is effectively a single-arm clinical trial that wouldn’t have have a placebo and whose results wouldn’t be published in peer-reviewed journals – but with everything else being the same.

Here, we present the development and application of the BioMe plate, a redesigned microplate device in which pairs of wells are separated by porous membranes

This variant presents 14 non-synonymous mutations, 6 synonymous mutations and 3 deletions. The multiple mutations present in the viral RNA encoding for the spike protein (S) are of most concern, such as the deletion Δ69-70, deletion Δ144, N501Y, A570D, D614G, P681H, T716I, S982A, D1118H

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RSF1010 is maintained at a copy-number of about 10-12 per chromosome in E coli, P. aeruginosa and S. enterica sv.Typhimurium (Frey and Bagdasarian, 1989)

ResCap capture library is a homemade core reference database (which will be available upon request) that comprises both well-known and hypothetical genes encoding resistance to antimicrobials

SeqCapEZ (NimbleGene) technology, which includes probes for 8667 canonical resistance genes (7963 antibiotic resistance genes and 704 genes conferring resistance to metals or biocides), and 2517 relaxase genes (plasmid markers) and 78,600 genes homologous to the previous identified targets (47,806 for antibiotics and 30,794 for biocides or metals)

the bacteria of the recipient strain was unable to grow on the plate containing ampicillin (> 100 mg/L) and gentamicin (> 50 mg/L) by drug sensitivity test

Non-lethal dose chlorine (0.5 mg/L) increased the conjugation transfer frequency,which confirmed that the mRNA expression levels of type IV secretion system (T4SS) proteins vir4D, vir5B and vir10B were significantly enhanced

something that the alternative online media has been unable to do is where mainstream media platforms are still unrivalled – being a one-stop repository for different sets of news consumers. MSM digital platforms, despite many flaws, thrive as catch-all baskets for round-the-clock information seekers, ranging from politics to cricket, from fashion to music and important news (which doesn’t only mean the unusual massacres) from a hamlet in Arwal district in Bihar to that from a Delhi suburb.

we developed a vastly improved INTEGRATE system that uses streamlined expression vectors to direct highly accurate insertions at ~100% efficiency effectively in a single orientation, independent of the cargo size, without requiring selection markers

This work provides CasTn as a new method for host-independent, programmable, targeted DNA insertions to expand the genomic engineering toolbox.

Indeed, the cell-lysate approach was found to be associated with superior sensitivity in some cases5.

using a commercially available reagent (Bio-Rad SPR) that generates RT-qPCR-ready cell lysates with minimal manipulations. Similar reagents are now available from a number of sources (Ambion Cells-to-CT, Invitrogen CellsDirect, Roche RealTime Ready Cell Lysis, etc.)

we demonstrate improved PCR-enhancing cocktails containing nonionic detergent, l-carnitine, d-(+)-trehalose, and heparin. These cocktails, in combination with two inhibitor-resistant Taq mutants, OmniTaq and Omni Klentaq, enabled efficient amplification of exogenous, endogenous, and high-GC content DNA targets directly from crude samples containing human plasma, serum, and whole blood without DNA purification.

We found that a lysis solution containing both the non-ionic detergent (IGEPAL CA-630, chemically equivalent to Nonidet P-40 or NP-40) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) gave the best RT-qPCR yield. This direct lysis to reverse transcription protocol outperformed a column-based extraction method using a commercial kit.

However, by the time scientific studies make it to the real world, shortcomings and limitations are removed to present palatable (and often wrong) conclusions to a general audience.

There are many commercial interests invested in persuading us to eat things that may be edible, but shouldn’t really be considered food

While no serious climate scientist doubts the fact that human activities are causing climate change, this can’t be proved through experimentation on another Earth.

Transformation of S. meliloti is counteracted by the restriction endonuclease HsdR degrading DNA which lacks the appropriate methylation pattern

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Transfer of plasmid RP4 during bacterial conjugation requires the plasmid-encoded TraJ protein, which binds to a 19-base pair invert sequence repetition within the transfer origin

Fluorescence values for sfGFP (excitation, 485 nm; emission, 528 nm) and mCherry (excitation, 580 nm; emission, 610 nm)

. Some SsGCs exhibited universal activation across all hosts in both reporters (constructs A–C

it was liable to impact the final results of the vaccine trial since, as more participants in the placebo arm would become infected, “the result of those getting the vaccine would obviously look better”.

By giving the confidence to participants that they are safe after taking the shots, the participants may become complacent. The people in the placebo group, in reality, have got zero level of protection, hence increasing their chances of getting the infection,” he said.

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it remains unclear exactly why resources are exchanged among trees in the first place

We recommend the following changes to the default settings when designing ddPCR assays:

Strive for a Tm between 50 and 65°C. One way to calculate Tm values is by using the nearest-neighbor method. Use the Tm calculator at http://www.basic.northwestern.edu/biotools/oligocalc.html, with values of 50 mM for salt concentration and 300 nM for oligonucleotide concentration

flow cytometry data were analyzed in R using the flowCore Bioconductor package (

flow cytometry using the red fluorescent nucleic acid dye SYTO17 as a counterstain to improve detection of cells with a low GFP signal

has developed novel bioinformatics software called OliVar, which allows researchers and assay developers to automate and design assays that target regions of the virus genome that have the lowest frequency of mutation

mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate, manufactured by Moderna, encodes the S-2P antigen, consisting of the SARS-CoV-2 glycoprotein with a transmembrane anchor and an intact S1–S2 cleavage site. S-2P is stabilized in its prefusion conformation by two consecutive proline substitutions at amino acid positions 986 and 987, at the top of the central helix in the S2 subunit

Lithium Acetate Borate (LAB) buffer is an agarose gel electrophoresis media for DNA gels

Cell densities achieved with TB were over 3 times greater than those seen with the most commonly used broth, LB, and DNA yields were 2.5 fold higher

SOC is added to E. coli cells to aid recovery after exposure to high salt concentrations and heat shock in many chemical-based DNA transformation protocols

In this study, we have quantitated yields of low copy and single copy number plasmid DNAs after growth of cells in four widely used broths (SB, SOC, TB, and 2xYT) and compared results to those obtained with LB, the most common E. coli cell growth medium

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ROI/Uniformity plate

Custom dyes must excite between 455–672 nm and emit between 505–723 nm.

occupy the fill scale with a slightly darker version of the palette used for color.

All the existing color palettes are available in Paletteer. Just specify the package and palette names to use!

We report the preclinical development of BNT162b2, a lipid-nanoparticle (LNP) formulated N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1Ψ) nucleoside-modified mRNA (modRNA) vaccine candidate that encodes P2 S with a native furin cleavage site resulting in the S1 and S2 cleavage fragments

To generate the template for RNA synthesis, a DNA fragment encoding the SARS-CoV-2 P2 279 S protein (based on GenBank: MN908947), including the amino acid exchanges K986P and 280 V987P, was cloned into a starting plasmid vector with backbone sequence elements for 281 improved RNA stability and translational efficiency19,34

The pBHR1 plasmid is a derivative of the small (2.6-kb), mobilizable broad-host-range plasmid pBBR1, which was isolated from the gram-negative bacterium Bordetella bronchiseptica

Antibiotics, according to strain sensitivity, were used at the following concentrations: tetracycline 2 μg/ml for Rm1021, BM7, BM299 and BM300, 4 μg/ml for LMG18864, 10 μg/ml for other Sinorhizobium strains and for E. coli; streptomycin 600 μg/ml and kanamycin 200 μg/ml were used for Rm1021; kanamycin for E. coli S17.1 was used at 40 μg/ml; gentamicin was used at 20 μg/ml for all strains

All Sinorhizobium strains were grown in TY medium (Beringer, 1974) at 30 °C

TY contained, per litre, 5 g Difco Bacto- Tryptone, 3 g Difco Bacto-yeast extract and 1-3 g CaC1,.6H20.

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The slopes and efficiency for the SARS-CoV-2 standard curves were not consistent over time, confirming the need to include a standard curve each run rather than using a single curve for multiple plates.

Look at filmmaker Anubhav Sinha’s last three films. He went for Muslim minority story (Mulk) then he went to do a Dalit-related, anti-caste-related story in Article 15, and now he has gone for domestic violence (Thappad). He has touched religion, caste and gender.

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P. aeruginosa cells were made competent utilizing a microcentrifuge-based procedure.

Combining acetate with borate retains the deficiencies of both

The voltage is kept low, ∼10 V/cm, where cm refers to the length of the gel

Between them, the three buffers cover all of the molecular biologist’s DNA gel needs

Since most of the power produced in the electrophoretic process is dissipated as heat the following detrimental effects can result: • an increased rate of diffusion of sample and buffer ions leading to broadening of the separated samples • the formation of convection currents, which leads to mixing of separated samples; • thermal instability of samples that are rather sensitive to heat (e.g. denaturation of DNA) • a decrease of buffer viscosity hence a reduction in the resistance of the medium

Using a lower concentration running buffer (0.25x TAE) and higher voltage (300 V), agarose gels can be run 33% faster.

found that the P R promoter from rhizobial phage 16-3 was active in M. extorquens and engineered the promoter to be inducible by either p-isopropyl benzoate (cumate) or anhydrotetracycline. These hybrid promoters, P R/cmtO and P R/tetO, were found to have high levels of expression in M. extorquens with a regulatory range of 10-fold and 30-fold, respectively

Currently, the majority of quorum sensing systems used in synthetic biology rely on self-produced small molecules that result in spatially and temporally self-organized systems, which can not be easily externally regulated

All replication in R6K relies on the two essential components of a minimal replicon, the γ ori, and its cognate Rep, π protein, encoded by the pir gene

appropriately selecting sets of functionally redundant species and adding their abundances can help identify environmental drivers of microbiome composition

in most conceivable cases, we study a particular microbiome in order to understand, predict, and potentially control its functioning, with no particular regard for species content.

Since currentanalytical technologies for genes and metabolites provideonly a “snapshot” information at the time of measurement,temporal shift s in plan t an d microbial physiologies hav e bee na majo r obstacl e to detaile d analyses. Therefore, a stabl e syn‐thetic system may facilitate clearer investigations of plant-microbe interactions, leading to unique insights in this field

transformation efficiencies using a chemical transformation protocol

Fully autoclavable racks (moist heat, 121°C, 20 min., 1 bar); remove blister packaging before autoclaving

Here we present a detailed, genome-wide transcriptomics and proteomics dataset of E. coli grown under 34 different conditions. Additionally, we provide measurements of doubling times and in-vivo metabolic fluxes through the central carbon metabolism

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But humans, we have demonstrated, are not inherently self-interested.

some anthropologists now argue that millions of years of evolution have hard-wired us for altruism, not self-interest.

Since each strand is replicated independently, it is possible for the ssDNA form to accumulate.

Previously, we and others have shown that the inclusion of an antitoxin and the careful balancing of toxin and antitoxin expression levels across relevant conditions can mitigate this effect, resulting in a kill switch that is evolutionarily stable over biologically relevant periods

Cells are aliquoted into chilled tubes, frozen in a dry ice bath and stored at −80 °C until use.

Solutions can be autoclaved for 15-20 minutes at a maximum of 121 °C. There will be some hydrolysis to glucose and fructose, depending in part on how rapidly the autoclave comes to the required temperature and pressure. Care must be taken to prevent solutions from caramelizing.

V. natriegens grows rapidly in BHIN complex medium with a μ of up to 4.43 h−1 (doubling time of 9.4 min) as well as in minimal medium supplemented with various industrially relevant substrates.

Antibiotic concentrations used for plasmid selection in V. natriegens: ampicillin–carbenicillin 100 µg ml−1, kanamycin 75 µg ml−1, chloramphenicol 5 µg ml−1, spectinomycin 100 µg ml−1. E. coli experiments were performed in standard LB and M9 media.

model incorporated the time series correlation structure through an autoregressive model of order 1 for the error process

might also translate to other respiratory

. For example, when applied to the sewershed 177MUD#203 (Fig. 3B) the predictive model could be used to estimate positivity rate during periods 178when clinical testing data was sparse. This approach illustrates the power of using wastewater 179viral load to forecast positivity rates in communitie

. We observed a 110strong cross-correlation up to fourteen days

A moving average is commonly used with time series data to smooth out short-term fluctuations and highlight longer-term trends or cycles. The threshold between short-term and long-term depends on the application, and the parameters of the moving average will be set accordingly.

Linear mixed models are an extension of simple linear models to allow both fixed and random effects, and are particularly used when there is non independence in the data, such as arises from a hierarchical structure