Erratum: Polyclonal antibodies step out of the shadows

Requirement of a Blocking Step in Affinity Purification of Polyclonal Antibodies

Production of Erythropoietin-specific polyclonal Antibodies

Background: Erythropoietin, as a principal hormone promotes red blood cell production in bone marrow. Varieties of erythropoietin biosimilar are being produced by recombinant DNA technology in cell cultures. The detection or quantification of these molecules are being performed by diff erent methods which some of theme such as Western blot and enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) require sp...

Polyclonal Antibodies for Detection of Witches’ Broom Disease of Lime

The witches’ broom disease of lime trees is a destructing disease caused by the bacterium Candidatus <span style="font-variant: normal; fon...

Child maltreatment comes out of the shadows.

Sabah and Nidal (names changed) were abandoned by their mother as toddlers and left with their father, who had no idea how to look after them. After feeding them and changing their diapers in the morning, he would leave them alone for 10 hours while he went to work. The children are now in the care of the Dar Al Aman child protection centre in Amman, Jordan. Dar Al Aman – which means “house of ...

Childhood tuberculosis—out of the shadows

Historically, childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been in the shadows, with global TB control programs focused exclusively on adults with sputum smear-positive TB [1]. This was based on a firm belief that the most costeffective method to contain the TB epidemic and thereby benefit the whole community, including children, was to identify and treat the most infectious adult cases. The fact that this ...