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Nucleic Acid Therapeutics: Current Targets for Antisense Oligonucleotides and Ribozymes [full text]
Pramod K Yadava

Vectors for Generation of Precise Transcripts of Inserted Sequence [full text]
Ramesh S. Yadava and Pramod K. Yadava

SwaN-MR from Infancy to Maturity [full text]
Giuseppe Balacco

Isolation of Intact High Molecular Weight Chromosomal DNA from Desulfovibrio spp. [full text]
Vitaly Zinkevich and Iwona B Beech

The Role of Subunit Assembly in the Functional Control of Type I Restriction-Modification Enzymes
Keith Firman, Christina Dutta, Marie Weiserova, and Pavel Janscak

Possible Mechanisms of Methylmercury Cytotoxicity [full text]
Michael Aschner

Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Can Fail to Separate 16S rDNA Fragments with Multiple Base Differences [full text]
Colin R. Jackson, Eric E. Roden, and Perry F. Churchill

Strain Differentiation Among Indian Clinical Isolates of M. tuberculosis by RFLP Analysis [full text]
A. Chander, R. Yadava, S. Ghosh, P.C. Rath, P.K. Yadava, I. Orme and R. K. Saxena

Phage T4-Encoded Stp Alleviates the DNA Restriction Activity of EcoR124I Endonuclease by Affecting a Critical Step in the Subunit Assembly Pathway [full text]
Warren Lisle, Christina F. Dutta, Michal Penner, Gabriel Kaufmann and Keith Firman

Direct Colony Identification by PCR-Miniprep [full text]
Tarig H. Dafa'alla, Gerd Hobom, and Horst Zahner

The Effect of Hairpin Structure on PCR Amplification Efficiency [full text]
Vinay K. Singh, R Govindarajan, Sita Naik, and Anil Kumar

An Evaluation of the ERIC-PCR Profiles generated from Gardnerella vaginalis Genomic DNA
Kamalendu Nath, Joseph Sarosy, Charles J. Di Como, and Truc Tran

Sub-unit Peptide and Genetic Vaccination with Measles Virus [full text]
Pradip Bhattacharya and Pramod Yadava