Scrapies Scrapies is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects the central nervous system of sheep and goats. It is classified a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy also known as a TSE. Scrapies is the oldest known TSE. There is no cure or treatment for scrapies meaning it is a terminal disease. The name scrapies came from the symptom that leads constant itching due to the damage in the brain. The constant itching results in scabs and scrapes all over the body. The number one theory
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SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGHLY CROSSLINKED HYALURONAN HYDROGELS Newell R. Washburn1‚ Sidi A. Bencherif1‚ Abiraman Srinivasan2‚ Jeffrey O. Hollinger2‚ Ferenc Horkay3‚ Krzysztof Matyjaszewski1 Departments of 1Chemistry and 2Biomedical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University‚ Pittsburgh‚ PA 15213 3 Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics National Institutes of Health‚ NICHD 13 South Drive‚ Bethesda‚ MD 20892 Introduction Methacrylation of hyaluronic acid (HA) with glycidyl methacrylate
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Introduction Dulaglutide is a Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist (RA) indicated for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Dulaglutide was invented by Wolfgang Glaesner‚ Rohn Lee Millican Jr‚ and Andrew Mark Vick‚ employees of Eli Lilly and Company. In the United States dulaglutide is manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis‚ Indiana under the trade name Trulicity. T2DM is a progressive disease that is characterized by the dysfunction of β pancreatic islet
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PHL 126-01 10/31/12 “Congratulations! You are having a baby!!” “Pregnant”‚ a little disyllabic noun‚ but it has one of the biggest implications‚ especially with words ending with suffix –lee. Geographically‚ a pregnancy intended to be kept full-term could be a good or bad thing; for example‚ in China‚ where population size is being somewhat monitored‚ a second or third pregnancy would cause alarm‚ and potential sanctions. Religiously‚ it would prove pre-marital sex‚ which is not encouraged
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Unnatural births in Adi Parva Adi parva is the first of eighteen parvas of the great epic of Mahabharata. It is also the first book in Mahabharata that is considered to be the book of beginning. Mahabharata‚ ancient Indian epic is full of miracles‚ unnatural at the same time unbelievable and unquestionable things taking place‚ in the sense that there are specifically no satisfying explanation and justification on their occurrence. Mahabharata is an epic which even consists of things that we see
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Genetic Variation in Sordaria Finicola Introduction: The purpose of the Sordaria Lab was to explore the affects of genetic variation caused by meiosis and to record how sexual reproduction] affects the amount of crossing over in certain strains of Sordaria Fimicola. These organisms are ascomycetes and are also known as sac fungi. This is because the shape of their asci is in the form of a sac; inside each sac there are structures called ascospores. It is these structures‚ ascospores‚ where genetic
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All in a day’s work Employee empowerment is the latest buzzword in business and a variety of Tata companies are working overtime to place their people in the driver’s seat The crowd holds its collective breath as Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar prepares to strike. But the batsman‚ B Muthuraman‚ is unperturbed. The delivery is sent flying into the stands. The cheers get louder as the Tata Steel managing director raises his bat in triumph. Not real life‚ but an inspirational film. "It’s
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ENDANGERED SPECIES IN DOUGHERTY COUNTY BALD EAGLE [pic] FOR: SCIENCE MR. DEGUIRE Name / Scientific Name [pic] The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)‚ our national bird‚ is the only eagle unique to North America. The bald eagle’s scientific name signifies a sea (halo) eagle (aeetos) with a white (leukos) head. At one time‚ the word "bald" meant "white‚" not hairless. Bald eagles are found over most of North America‚ from Alaska and Canada to northern Mexico. About half of the
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streak was performed and nutrient agar plates were to be incubated in a room temperature for the next 48 hours. Nutrient Agar plate was used for isolation streak technique in order to see two types of bacterium growing in a room temperature. After incubating for 48 hours Nutrient agar plates were examined for bacterial growth of two different colonies. On a Nutrient agar plate two different cultures were observed. In order to proceed identification‚ those cultures were isolated as separate organisms
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Transformation of E. coli with your unknown plasmid Learning Goals: Insert your uncut unknown plasmid into chemically competent DH-5 E.coli cells and use antibiotic resistance to confirm the success of the transformation. You should familiarize yourself with the various methods of transformation and the advantages/disadvantages of each type. You should also understand how heat shock transformation works and how chemically competent cells make this type of transformation possible. For this transformation
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