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Can't You Just Use a Label Maker?

May 02, 2007

The new edition of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols offers a couple of free-access methods. One protocol describes growing cells in a particular medium that marks the cells with nitrogen-15 so that they can be distinguished from other cells by mass spec. Another protocol describes how to tag DNA probes with visibly different fluorescent markers.

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Alzheimer's Risk Gene Among Women

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Still Hanging Around

The Guardian writes that persistent pockets of SARS-CoV-2 in the body could contribute to long COVID.

Through a Little Spit

Enteric viruses like norovirus may also be transmitted through saliva, not just the fecal-oral route, according to New Scientist.

Nature Papers Present Method to Detect Full Transcriptome, Viruses Infecting Asgard Archaea, More

In Nature this week: VASA-seq approach to detect full transcriptome, analysis of viruses infecting Asgard archaea, and more.