The engineering and testing of genes that result in refractory phenotypes are important components of the continuing effort towards the use of population replacement strategies for vector control. Both ‘endogenous’ and ‘synthetic’ refractory phenotypes are being considered. Additional research is required to determine the prevalence of such phenotypes in the various vector–pathogen combinations...

In human glioma, quantitative real-time reverse-transcription PCR (qPCR) is a frequently used research tool. However, no systematic analysis of suitable reference genes for reliable gene expression analysis has been performed so far. In the current study, we tested 19 commonly used reference genes for their expression stability in human astrocytoma WHO Grade II, astrocytoma WHO Grade III, and g...

The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) beta4/alpha3/alpha5 gene cluster encodes several heteromeric transmitter receptor subtypes that are essential for cholinergic synaptic transmission in adrenal gland, autonomic ganglia, pineal gland, and several nuclei in the central nervous system. However, the transcriptional mechanisms coordinating expression of these subunit genes in different cel...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non coding RNAs acting as negative regulators. miRNA are involved in lung development and pulmonary diseases. Measurement of their levels by qPCR is directly influenced by the stability of normalization gene(s), which can be affected by the experimental conditions. The developing lung is a changing tissue and one normalization gene showing stability on on...

Fatty acid elongase 1 (FAE1) and delta-12 fatty desaturase 2 (FAD2) are two key enzymes in plant biosynthesis pathway. Five different types of transgenic lines with identical genetic background were developed by single double-expression regulation the genes coding for these same  Brassica napus  variety CY2. Seeds five wild-type control, which planted under same environmental conditio...

Interference with genes is the foundation of reverse genetics and is key to manipulation of living cells for biomedical and biotechnological applications. However, classical genetic knockout and transcriptional knockdown technologies have different drawbacks and offer no control over existing protein levels. Here, we describe an efficient genome editing approach that affects specific protein ab...