The draft document is critically reviewed by the Standards of Practice Committee members,
either by telephone conference calling or faceto-face meeting. The finalized draft from the …

Chitin is one of the most diverse and naturally occurring biopolymers, and it is mainly present
in crustaceans, insects, and fungi. Chitosan is derived from chitin by deacetylation process. …

Aquaculture industry is one of the world’s fastest and largest growing food producing sector.
Most importantly, the usage of fish meal in aquaculture has been replaced with alternate …

Many patients suffering from developmental disorders harbor submicroscopic deletions or
duplications that, by affecting the copy number of dosage-sensitive genes or disrupting normal …

The National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) has
provided evidence-based guidelines for hemodialysis vascular access since 1996. Since the …

Background Human genome sequencing has transformed our understanding of genomic
variation and its relevance to health and disease, and is now starting to enter clinical practice …

Sexual intercourse is the major route of HIV transmission. To identify endogenous factors
that affect the efficiency of sexual viral transmission, we screened a complex peptide/protein …

We have systematically compared copy number variant (CNV) detection on eleven microarrays
to evaluate data quality and CNV calling, reproducibility, concordance across array …

Alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) is a rare,
neonatally lethal developmental disorder of the lung with defining histologic abnormalities …

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) have a neonatal incidence of 0.8–1% (refs. 1 , 2 ). Despite
abundant examples of monogenic CHD in humans and mice, CHD has a low absolute …