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Most correspondents felt sure that they had encountered deep-seated elitism, when actually all they had run into was a playful desire to keep the newspapers fun.
This problem is most often encountered when newly discovered or characterized genes have been selected from the literature.
A few months ago, a colleague wrote saying that he had encountered my mention of it but had been unable to find any reference in Dryden's writings.
They struggled, under difficult circumstances, to improvise a homeland defense against an unprecedented challenge they had never before encountered and had never trained to meet.
Applying this strategy, we were able to effectively reduce the cross-reactivity among the signal and capture probes for those HPV types where problems of non-specific signal had initially been encountered without compromising hybridization strengths.