DNA-based techniques are frequently used to confirm the relatedness of putative outbreak isolates. These techniques often lack the discriminatory power when analyzing closely related microbes such as E. coli. Here the value of Raman spectroscopy as a typing tool for E. coli in a clinical setting was …

Mobile Rapid-DNA devices have recently become available on the market. These devices can perform DNA analyses within 90 min with an easy ‘sample in–answer out’ system, with the option of performing comparisons with a DNA database or reference profile. However, these fast mobile systems cannot yet compete …

Both inhabitants and tourists of Ameland are in need for a new entry to the island. The lack of quality and adaptability of the current entry from the Wadden Sea makes separation between freight and passenger flows to and from the island necessary. The demand for aanew harbour creates new opportunities. …

Purpose: Parentally transmitted germ-line chromothripsis (G-CTH) has been identified in only a few cases. Most of these rearrangements were stably transmitted, in an unbalanced form, from a healthy mother to her child with congenital abnormalities probably caused by de novo copy-number changes of dosage …

Motivation: Unambiguous sequence variant descriptions are important in reporting the outcome of clinical diagnostic DNA tests. The standard nomenclature of the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) describes the observed variant sequence relative to a given reference sequence. We propose an efficient …

In het kader van de Kaderrichtlijn Water (KRW) vormt monitoring een zware belasting voor de jaarlijkse begroting van waterbeheerders. Een goedkopere monitoringsmethode is daarom gewenst. Environmental DNA (eDNA) is in potentie geschikt om de huidige monitoring te vervangen. De verwachting is dat het …

Gebiedsmarketing en de rol van de ondernemer. Marketing is verbinding merk en stakeholders, met o.a. productverbetering, communicatie vanuit het DNA!

Conclusie : Vertaald naar het nu kan gesteld worden dat het Europese erfgoed in het spirituele en culturele “Europese DNA” zit en dus niet aan actualiteit heeft ingeboet. Zo zijn de Griekse en Romeinse traditie en de Joods‐Christelijke wortels voor altijd terug te vinden in de oorsprong en ontwikkeling …