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Comparison of methods in the recovery of nucleic acids from archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded autopsy tissues
Okello, John B. A.; Zurek, Jaymi; Devault, Alison M.; Kuch, Melanie; Okwi, Andrew L.; Sewankambo, Nelson K.; Bimenya, Gabriel S.; Poinar, Debi; Poinar, Hendrik N. (Elsevier, 2010)Archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) human tissue collections are typically in poor states of storage across the developing world. With advances in biomolecular techniques, these extraordinary and virtually ... -
Quantitative assessment of the sensitivity of various commercial reverse transcriptases based on armored HIV RNA
Okello, John B. A.; Rodriguez, Linda; Poinar, Debi; Bos, Kirsten; Okwi, Andrew L.; Bimenya, Gabriel S.; Sewankambo, Nelson K.; Henry, Keneth R.; Kuch, Melanie; Poinar, Hendrik N. (Public Library of Science, 2010)Background: The in-vitro reverse transcription of RNA to its complementary DNA, catalyzed by the enzyme reverse transcriptase, is the most fundamental step in the quantitative RNA detection in genomic studies. As such, ...