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All of the islands are now officially and proudly part of France, not colonies as they were for some three centuries.
The elimination of these false positive colonies from the initial screening of the cDNA library resulted in a total of 64 colonies whose library clones encoded potentially true interacting proteins with the extracellular domain of proHB-EGF.
DNA obtained from the resultant colonies was sequenced with the USB Sequenase version 2.0 DNA Sequencing kit (Amersham, Cleveland, OH) using T3 and T7 primers.
In the early centuries of the Christian era, the peninsula’s advantageous position made it an ideal way-station for trade with Bengal and southern India, and attracted Indianized colonies from the Mekong valley of Indochina.
White colonies from these two sets were carefully picked and used to inoculate single cells of a 96 well culture block with each well containing 1.2 ml of TB (1.