Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genetics dictate adaptive cellular immune responses, making robust MHC genotyping methods essential for studies of infectious disease, vaccine development and ...

Multiple fields of microbiology rely on techniques of microbial identification, such as in food microbiology for detecting contaminants, and in microbial ecology to characterize biodiversity. Image ...

A dog's indiscriminate taste is not always a positive trait. In fact, it often leads to gastrointestinal infections and consequent ailments such as diarrhea and vomiting that come from eating spoiled ...

A Swedish biotech firm has signed an exclusive agreement with Harvard Medical School (HMS) that provides the firm broad access to nucleic acid technology developed by HMS. The new discoveries, which ...

Diverse sessile organisms inhabit the coral reef ecosystems, including corals, sponges, and sea anemones. In the past decades, scleractinian corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) and their ...

Determining true HER2 status in breast cancers with polysomy using alternative chromosome 17 reference genes: Implications for trastuzumab therapy. Background: Systemic chemo- and chemoradiation ...

Zhao-Ming Gao, Yong Wang, On On Lee, Ren-Mao Tian, Yue Him Wong, Salim Bougouffa, Zenon Batang, Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem, Feras F. Lafi, Vladimir B. Bajic and Pei-Yuan Qian Abnormality and disease in ...