Bankers owed 800 million pounds meet this morning to consider a breathing space for the tottering Maxwell empire, as Ian and Kevin Maxwell struggle to hold their inheritance against potential buyers eyeing assets such as Mirror Group Newspapers.

Liquid extraction surface analysis (LESA) mass spectrometry is a promising tool for the analysis of intact proteins from biological substrates. Here, we demonstrate native LESA mass spectrometry of noncovalent protein complexes of myoglobin and hemoglobin from a range of surfaces. Holomyoglobin, in which apomyoglobin is noncovalently bound to the prosthetic heme group, was observed following LE...

BACKGROUND Assays have been developed for cross-sectional HIV incidence estimation using plasma samples. Large scale surveillance programs are planned using dried blood spot (DBS) specimens for incidence assessment. However, limited information exists on the performance of HIV cross-sectional incidence assays using DBS. METHODS The assays evaluated were: Maxim HIV-1 Limiting Antigen Avidity E...

Agarwal et al in their article published in August 2006 issue of IJMR compared the prevalence of anaemia as measured by the HemoCue method in the 1998-1999 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2) with anaemia estimates in the same enumeration areas in seven states using the indirect cyanmethaemoglobin laboratory method [using dried blood spots (DBS) on filter paper]. They found that the prevalen...

Objectives. Development of a simple mutation directed method in order to allow lowering the cost of mutation testing using an easily obtainable biological material. Assessment of the feasibility of such method was tested using a GC-rich amplicon. Design and Methods. A method of denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (dHPLC) was improved and implemented as a technique for the detectio...

An ambient method for rapid monitoring and quantitation of drugs of abuse in dried blood spots was developed using paper spray tandem mass spectrometry (PS-MS).

By recent results in [19], the standard localization theory for function and section spaces due to Hilton-Mislin-Roitberg and Möller extend outside the CW category to the case of compact metric domain in the presence of a grouplike structure. We study applications in two cases directly generalizing the gauge group of a principal bundle. We prove an identity for the monoid aut(ξ) of fibre-homoto...

Laboratory-based HIV tests for recent infection (TRIs), which primarily measure a specific serological biomarker(s) that distinguishes recent from long-term HIV infection, have facilitated the estimation of population-based incidence. Dried blood spots (DBS) on filter paper are an attractive sample source for HIV surveillance, given the simplified and cost-effective methods of specimen collecti...

In the past decade, there have been a number of highprofile legal cases that have involved the removal of human blood samples from the hands of researchers. In one case, more than 5 10 dried blood spots from infants were destroyed after a suit was filed that challenged the state of Texas’ right to store infant blood spots for use in future research. In all these cases, there was argument over w...

The authors would like to thank Aaron Blaisdell for the invitation to contribute to this special issue. We would also like to thank Rob Honey and Ulrike Hahn for their comments on previous versions of this manuscript. Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. D. M. Dwyer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK. ([email protected]). Ration...