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Killing cancer cells by targeted drug-carrying phage nanomedicines
Hagit Bar, Iftach Yacoby, Itai Benhar BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:37 (3 April 2008)
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Genetically modified, filamentous bacteriophage act as novel chemotherapy-delivery platforms, with nanoparticles using anti-ErbB2 antibodies to target mammary cancer cells in vitro, offering the promise of clinical cancer therapy with fewer systemic side-effects.
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An efficient one-step site-directed deletion, insertion, single and multiple-site plasmid mutagenesis protocol
Huanting Liu, James H Naismith BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:91 (4 December 2008)
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Viral and murine interleukin-10 are correctly processed and retain their biological activity when produced in tobacco
Luisa Bortesi, Marzia Rossato, Flora Schuster, Nicole Raven, Johannes Stadlmann, Linda Avesani, Alberto Falorni, Flavia Bazzoni, Ralph Bock, Stefan Schillberg, Mario Pezzotti BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9:22 (19 March 2009)
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The efficient production of biologically-active murine and viral Interleukin-10 (IL-10) in transgenic tobacco paves the way for oral administration of this anti-inflammatory cytokine in animal studies of autoimmune disease.
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Pseudomonas fluorescens biofilms subjected to phage phiIBB-PF7A
Sanna Sillankorva, Peter Neubauer, Joana Azeredo BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:79 (27 October 2008)
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Real-time PCR based on SYBR-Green I fluorescence: An alternative to the TaqMan assay for a relative quantification of gene rearrangements, gene amplifications and micro gene deletions
Frederique Ponchel, Carmel Toomes, Kieran Bransfield, Fong T Leong, Susan H Douglas, Sarah L Field, Sandra M Bell, Valerie Combaret, Alain Puisieux, Alan J Mighell, Philip A Robinson, Chris F Inglehearn, John D Isaacs, Alex F Markham BMC Biotechnology 2003, 3:18 (13 October 2003)
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Measuring microRNAs: Comparisons of microarray and quantitative PCR measurements, and of different total RNA prep methods
Robert A Ach, Hui Wang, Bo Curry BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:69 (11 September 2008)
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Antibody expressing pea seeds as fodder for prevention of gastrointestinal parasitic infections in chickens
Jana Zimmermann, Isolde Saalbach, Doreen Jahn, Martin Giersberg, Sigrun Haehnel, Julia Wedel, Jeanette Macek, Karen Zoufal, Gerhard Glünder, Dieter Falkenburg, Sergey M Kipriyanov BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9:79 (11 September 2009)
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Chickens are protected from developing the economically-important illness coccidiosis by eating pea seeds expressing antibodies against the parasite Eimeria, showing passive immunization to be a cost-effective method of controlling this infectious disease.
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A kinetic-based sigmoidal model for the polymerase chain reaction and its application to high-capacity absolute quantitative real-time PCR
Robert G Rutledge, Don Stewart BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:47 (8 May 2008)
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The LRE (linear regression of efficiency) algorithm for estimating PCR efficiency is a kinetic-based sigmoidal approach that, when coupled with optical calibration, provides data comparison without using standard curves, allowing high-capacity absolute PCR quantification.
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PCR-based gene synthesis to produce recombinant proteins for crystallization
Damien Marsic, Ronny C Hughes, Miranda L Byrne-Steele, Joseph D Ng BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:44 (29 April 2008)
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FastCloning: a highly simplified, purification-free, sequence- and ligation-independent PCR cloning method
Chaokun Li, Aiyun Wen, Benchang Shen, Jia Lu, Yao Huang, Yongchang Chang BMC Biotechnology 2011, 11:92 (12 October 2011)
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Preparation of alginate coated chitosan microparticles for vaccine delivery
XingYi Li, XiangYe Kong, Shuai Shi, XiuLing Zheng, Gang Guo, YuQuan Wei, ZhiYong Qian BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:89 (19 November 2008)
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Providing chitosan microparticles with a coating of alginate improves their potential ability to deliver mucosal vaccines orally by both reducing the degradation of attached antigens by gastric juices and by delaying antigen release.
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Electrospun micro- and nanofiber tubes for functional nervous regeneration in sciatic nerve transections
Silvia Panseri, Carla Cunha, Joseph Lowery, Ubaldo Del Carro, Francesca Taraballi, Stefano Amadio, Angelo Vescovi, Fabrizio Gelain BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:39 (11 April 2008)
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Simultaneous detection of mRNA and protein stem cell markers in live cells
Won Jong Rhee, Gang Bao BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9:30 (2 April 2009)
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Improved Tet-responsive promoters with minimized background expression
Rainer Loew, Niels Heinz, Mathias Hampf, Hermann Bujard, Manfred Gossen BMC Biotechnology 2010, 10:81 (24 November 2010)
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A comparison between two brine shrimp assays to detect in vitro cytotoxicity in marine natural products
José Carballo, Zaira L Hernández-Inda, Pilar Pérez, María D García-Grávalos BMC Biotechnology 2002, 2:17 (23 September 2002)
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Critical evaluation of HPV16 gene copy number quantification by SYBR green PCR
Ian Roberts, Grace Ng, Nicola Foster, Margaret Stanley, Michael T Herdman, Mark R Pett, Andrew Teschendorff, Nicholas Coleman BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:57 (24 July 2008)
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Assessment of HPV16 load in cervical cancer using SYBR green PCR produces unavoidable inaccuracies, but calibration using a HPV16 E6 gene construct gives a useful indication of viral load.
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Microporation is a valuable transfection method for efficient gene delivery into human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells
Jung Lim, Sun Park, Chang Jeong, Ji Oh, Seong Kim, Chung Ryu, Soon A Park, Jae Ahn, Wonil Oh, Sin-Soo Jeun, Jong Chang BMC Biotechnology 2010, 10:38 (13 May 2010)
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Cloning, overexpression, purification, and characterization of a polyextremophilic β-galactosidase from the Antarctic haloarchaeon Halorubrum lacusprofundi
Ram Karan, Melinda D Capes, Priya DasSarma, Shiladitya DasSarma BMC Biotechnology 2013, 13:3 (16 January 2013)
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Collagen matrices from sponge to nano: new perspectives for tissue engineering of skeletal muscle
Justus P Beier, Dorothee Klumpp, Markus Rudisile, Roland Dersch, Joachim H Wendorff, Oliver Bleiziffer, Andreas Arkudas, Elias Polykandriotis, Raymund E Horch, Ulrich Kneser BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9:34 (15 April 2009)
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Generation of Cell Lines to Complement Adenovirus Vectors using Recombination-Mediated Cassette Exchange
Susan J Morris, Daniel C Farley, Keith N Leppard BMC Biotechnology 2010, 10:92 (23 December 2010)
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Construction of a series of vectors for high throughput cloning and expression screening of membrane proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Huajun Qin, Jian Hu, Yuanzhi Hua, Shridhar V Challa, Timothy A Cross, Fei P Gao BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8:51 (16 May 2008)
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Immunohistochemical detection of transgene expression in the brain using small epitope tags
Evy Lobbestael, Veerle Reumers, Abdelilah Ibrahimi, Kirsten Paesen, Irina Thiry, Rik Gijsbers, Chris Van den Haute, Zeger Debyser, Veerle Baekelandt, Jean-Marc Taymans BMC Biotechnology 2010, 10:16 (18 February 2010)
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Oil accumulation in the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: characterization, variability between common laboratory strains and relationship with starch reserves
Magali Siaut, Stéphan Cuiné, Caroline Cagnon, Boris Fessler, Mai Nguyen, Patrick Carrier, Audrey Beyly, Fred Beisson, Christian Triantaphylidès, Yonghua Li-Beisson, Gilles Peltier BMC Biotechnology 2011, 11:7 (21 January 2011)
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An intein with genetically selectable markers provides a new approach to internally label proteins with GFP
Richard Ramsden, Luther Arms, Trisha N Davis, Eric GD Muller BMC Biotechnology 2011, 11:71 (27 June 2011)
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Jellyfish mucin may have potential disease-modifying effects on osteoarthritis
Naoshi Ohta, Masato Sato, Kiminori Ushida, Mami Kokubo, Takayuki Baba, Kayoko Taniguchi, Makoto Urai, Koji Kihira, Joji Mochida BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9:98 (8 December 2009)
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