The Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is one of the most important pest of fruits and vegetables in tropical and subtropical countries. The sterile insect technique (SIT) as a component of area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) approaches is being used for the successful management of this pest. VIENNA 8 is a genetic sexing strain (GSS) that ha...

BACKGROUND In high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence population, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. HIV is driving the TB epidemic in many countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed the survival time and predictors of mortality among tuberculosis patients under directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) strategy in Dessie Ref...

Charles B. Fenster,1,2,3 Silvana Martén-Rodriguez,2,4 and Douglas W. Schemske5,6 1Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 2Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 3E-mail: [email protected] 4E-mail: [email protected] 5Department of Plant Biology and Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State Uni...

This Application Note shows how to carry out qualitative and quantitative analysis of fat soluble vitamins from two different food matrixes. A robust reverse phase high performance liquid chromatographic (RP-HPLC) method for simultaneous determination of nine fat soluble vitamins was developed. Separation and quantification was achieved by an Agilent 1260 Infinity LC System using an Agilent Por...

The Agilent 1260 Bio-inert Quaternary LC System and Agilent BioSEC columns were used to investigate the purity and stability of two monoclonal antibodies (mAb): AntiFLAG and BL05. The high sensitivity of the Agilent 1260 Infinity Diode Array Detector was used to characterize these antibodies at low concentrations. The bio-inert LC system in combination with BioSEC columns resulted in the develo...

Mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes predispose to hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer. Those leading to truncated proteins bring about a MMR defect, but phenotypes of missense mutations are harder to predict especially if they do not affect conserved residues. Several systems capable of predicting the phenotypes of MMR missense mutations were described. We deployed one of these to study t...