Affinity tags have become powerful tools from basic biological research to structural and functional proteomics. They were widely used to facilitate the purification and detection of proteins of interest, as well as the separation of protein complexes. Here, we mainly discuss the benefits and drawbacks of several affinity or epitope tags frequently used, including hexahistidine tag, FLAG tag, S...

BACKGROUND Previous reports of chromosomal aberrations in different forms of congenital diaphragmatic hernia have been described as comprising aneuploidies (for example, trisomy 21), microdeletions, and duplications (for example, monosomy 15q24, 22q11.2). CASE PRESENTATION We describe the first association of a de novo partial tetrasomy 4q35.2 in a father with left-sided, isolated renal agene...

tawfigh al-hakim is a contemporary egyptian playwright who is known as the father of arabic playwriting. he felt the need to search about the human character and its dimensions, so, this issue, has been the major them in his plays. through benefiting from humanistic theories in some western literary and philosophical schools, he has combined them with religious issues and eastern mythology to i...

yusuf ibn mohammad ibn yusuf heravi, commonly known as “hakim yosefi” and “molana ibn yusuf”, son of mohammad yosefi, was a 10th century ah physician. it seems he was a native from khaf, khorasan which studied in mā varā al-nahr and leaved in harat. since of he fear of sorkh kolahan, he moved to india with his father. his works are important from that he poetry to facilitate medicine subjects. ...

Jean DuMortier from whom he received a rich physical and mental' inheritance. His early education was received in the Norwalk public schools and at Harstrom's Preparatory School. He went to Williams College for two years, where he creditably participated in athletics-swimming, track, and football. His last two years of college were spent at Columbia University where he received the degree of Ba...

In the works of Cervantes, one can observe a detailed knowledge of dental matters. Although some of his biographers think that this is the result of the very broad cultural knowledge of this distinguished Spanish writer, the authors of this paper think differently. Having studied and analyzed many documents referring to the Cervantes family, especially those which dealt with the strong influenc...

out of the minds of the monks he has had psychoanalysed by a distinguished Jewish woman, but also how to purge his own brain of such poison. The man is Gregoire Lemercier, the sixth of an artillery officer's thirteen children who feared his father and at the same time wanted to emulate him. When he became a priest he transferred his complex to God. His autoanalytical sermons bloom with double f...

Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum is an inherited disorder characterized by generalized fragmentation and progressive calcification of the elastic tissues in the dermis, blood vessels and Bruch’s membrane of the eye. Herein, we report 3 patients in a family with pseudoxanthoma elasticum: a father and his two sons.