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30 μg of biotinylated cRNA were then randomly sheared (to an approximate length of 50 nucleotides).
As he coughed up his sources he sheared the sharper edges off his story.
Total M. paratuberculosis genomic DNA was isolated and randomly sheared using a nebulizer and compressed nitrogen according to protocols developed by Bruce Roe's laboratory http://www.genome.ou.edu.
Libraries were prepared according to the double adaptor method [ 39] with the following modifications: DNA was sheared using the Hydroshear (Gene Machines, San Carlos, CA) at speed code 2 for 25 cycles.
Finally, we analyzed 548 recombinant clones from a randomly sheared M. paratuberculosis small insert library in order to obtain specific rates of nucleotide substitutions.