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Now, in a paper published in this month's PLoS Medicine , they have gone further by extending the analysis to patients with different types of cancer, and producing an algorithm that allows semiautomation of the procedure.
Transcripts extending through the 5' splice site, proximal intron and into the provirus would produce RT-PCR products of 917 and 598 nucleotides with PR1 and PR2, respectively.
The guide cannula was closed with a 33-ga obturator extending 1 mm beyond the guide.
When the Chinese were confronted with the problem of expressing foreign terms and names, as happened on a large scale with the introduction of Buddhism in the first century A.D., they did so by further extending the use of Chinese characters as phonetic symbols.
The Release 3 telomeric sequence, extending approximately 5 kb farther than that of Release 2, ends in 11 copies of the TAS repeat.