Barbara Brezna

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Do survivors of tetanus sometime acquire natural immunity ?

I was told that survivors of tetanus do not generally acguire natural immunity to the disease. However, does it happen at least sometimes? Or, if not imuunity, do they have tetanus antibodies...

03 March 2018 338 4 View

Are there correlation graphs between the blood glucose level and the newborn weight ?

We know that gestational diabetes (diabetes triggered by pregnancy) can cause that the baby is born too large. Is there a publication with more detailed statistics or correlation graphs between...

01 January 2015 1,135 1 View

What is the legal liability in PCR methods for food allergen detection?

A complicated question, but even partial answers are wellcome: What is the legal liability for people, who are developing or commercially resp. non-commercially administering the analytical...

11 November 2014 9,733 10 View

Is there an easy way to locate variable regions V1, V2 etc. in a 16s rRNA sequence?

I needed the sequences of variable region V1, V2, V3, and V4 of 16s rRNA of Staphylococcus aureus. I solved the problem by manually locating the regions, using the alignment in this article and...

10 October 2014 1,021 7 View

Is anyone familiar with Logarithmic calibration and geometric means?

I have a logarithmic calibration line: MachineSignal = -3.21 log(concentration) + 21.9 It seems obvious to me, that if I have a triplicate measurement of concentrations (measured indirectly...

09 September 2014 2,247 12 View

Do you have experience or references regarding effects of indel-like primer-template single nucleotide insertion or deletion-like mismatch?

Hi, I am unable to find data on how single nucleotide insertion or deletion-like mismatch inside a primer affects PCR. I would be interested even in anecdotal empirical evidence. Have you ever...

01 January 2014 4,218 4 View

Has anyone compared DNA content in seeds vs. fruit flesh?

Is there a publication comparing DNA yield and / or PCR-amplifiability after extraction from fruit flesh (like apples, oranges, cherries etc) in comparison to seeds of the same fruits? I would...

01 January 2014 7,093 0 View