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Distinct Profiles of Cell-Free MicroRNAs in Plasma of Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

July 2019 Authors: Min Young Lee, David Baxter, Kelsey Scherler , Taek-Kyun Kim, Xiaogang Wu , Duna Abu-Amara, Janine Flory, Rachel Yehuda, Charles Marma, Marti Jett, Inyoul Lee, Kai Wang, and Leroy Hood Info: Researchers report on studies that profile … more »

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Identification of whole blood mRNA and microRNA biomarkers of tissue damage and immune function resulting from amphetamine exposure or heat stroke in adult male rats

February 2019 Authors: Luısa Camacho, Camila S. Silva, Joseph P. Hanig, Robert P. Schleimer, Nysia I. George, John F. Bowyer Info: A report from the USDA and others evaluate the effect of amphetamine and methamphetamine toxicity on immune systems and … more »

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Transmission of microRNA antimiRs to mouse offspring via the maternal-placental-fetal unit

March 2018 Authors: Jonas Hönig, Ivana Mižíková, Claudio Nardiello, David Emanuel Surate Solaligue, et al. Info: In Germany, researchers delivered microRNA inhibitors to pregnant mice, finding that the antimiRs were then detectable in offspring, where they caused fewer off-target effects … more »

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MicroRNA biomarkers of pancreatic injury in a canine model

January 2017 Authors: Rodney Rouse, Barry Rosenzweig, Katie Shea, Alan Knapton, Sharron Stewart, Lin Xu, Ashok Chockalingam, Leah Zadrozny, and Karol Thompson Info: FDA scientists report results of studying five pancreas-enriched microRNAs as potential biomarkers for pancreatic injury. They used … more »

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Association of MicroRNAs with Antibody Response to Mycoplasma bovis in Beef Cattle

August 2016 Authors: Eduardo Casas, Guohong Cai, Larry A. Kuehn, Karen B. Register, Tara G. McDaneld, John D. Neill Info: USDA scientists performed a longitudinal study of young cows to identify microRNAs linked to a serum antibody produced after exposure … more »

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MicroRNAs in the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis: extending Drosophilid miRNA conservation to the Tephritidae

October 2015 Authors: Bernarda Calla and Scott M. Geib Info: Scientists analyzed small RNAs in Bactrocera dorsalis, the oriental fruit fly, and compared the resulting gene expression profile with that of Drosophila melanogaster. BluePippin was used to enrich for cDNAs … more »

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For MicroRNA Discovery, Pippin Prep Delivers Highest Yield and Specificity

In a highly accessed paper in BMC Medical Genomics, scientists from McGill University and EMBL tested several steps to find the most robust pipeline for discovering small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) that might be useful as biomarkers. As part of this … more »

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Biomarker discovery: quantification of microRNAs and other small non-coding RNAs using next generation sequencing

July 2015 Authors: Juan Pablo Lopez, Alpha Diallo, Cristiana Cruceanu, Laura M. Fiori, Sylvie Laboissiere, Isabelle Guillet, Joelle Fontaine, Jiannis Ragoussis, Vladimir Benes, Gustavo Turecki, and Carl Ernst Info: Scientists from McGill University and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory evaluated … more »

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Pippin Enriches for MicroRNAs in Zebrafish Transcriptome Study

Scientists from the Mayo Clinic, Institute for Systems Biology, and University of Illinois recently published a study investigating the effects of vitamin D on microRNA regulation of gene expression in zebrafish. The team used our Pippin Prep together with the … more »

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MicroRNA

Pippin instruments can be used for isolation of microRNA libraries from adapter-dimer content and larger cDNAs. The Pippin 3% agarose gel cassette was developed for the preparation of miRNA libraries. Adapter-ligated cDNAs of miRNAs (typically 100-170 base pairs depending on … more »

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