One hundred and eighty-nine Thoroughbred horses that had won Graded Stakes races in North America were genotyped with the Illumina Equine SNP50 bead chip. Association tests using PLINK to determine whether any SNPs were associated with optimum racing distance (7 furlongs and under compared to 8-10 furlongs) identified a locus on ECA18 that was statistically significant (-log 10 EMP2=1.63) at th...

Abstract INTRODUCTION Glioma stem cells (GSC) constitute a subpopulation of tumor with stem-cell like properties and are believed to enhance glioblastoma’s ability grow confer resistance against chemoradiotherapy. It has been shown that non-adherent three-dimensional (3D) growth conditions facilitate neurosphere formation enable isolation GSCs in vitro. This can serve as an invaluable tool bett...