Mass spectrometry has become an important analytical tool in biology in the past two
decades. In principle, mass spectrometry offers high-throughput, sensitive and specific …

When confronted with a septic patient or dealing with an emerging epidemic, clinicians,
infection control specialists and microbiologists have often felt an immense 'need for …

For bacterial ty** to be useful, the development, validation and appropriate application of
ty** methods must follow unified criteria. Over a decade ago, ESGEM, the ESCMID …

Methylation is one of the major epigenetic processes pivotal to our understanding of
carcinogenesis. It is now widely accepted that there is a relationship between DNA …

The prospect of finding epigenetic risk factors for complex diseases would be greatly
enhanced if DNA from existing biobanks, which is generally extracted from whole blood …

Left–right asymmetrical brain function underlies much of human cognition, behavior and
emotion. Abnormalities of cerebral asymmetry are associated with schizophrenia and other …

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) is widely used
for characterization of large, thermally labile biomolecules. Advantages of this analytical …

DNA methylation of cytosine residues is a stable epigenetic alteration, beginning as early as
foetal development in the uterus and continuously evolving throughout life. DNA methylation …

Transgenic methods have been successfully applied to trait improvement in a number of
crops. However, reverse genetics studies by transgenic means are not practical in many …

Abstract Background Oat, Avena sativa is the sixth most important cereal in the world.
Presently oat is mostly used as feed for animals. However, oat also has special properties …