Abstract Background South Africa is experiencing an HIV/AIDS pandemic of shattering dimensions.The availability and provision of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs could bring relief to the situation, but the treatment is unfortunately complex with each patient being assigned a different antiretroviral therapy varying in diet-medication regiment.The contex
Abstract Background RNA sequencing offers advantages over other quantification methods for microRNA (miRNA), yet numerous biases make reliable quantification challenging.Previous evaluations of these biases have focused on adapter ligation bias with limited evaluation of reverse transcription bias or amplification bias.Furthermore, evaluations of t
Background: Low vaccination rates in children remain a major problem in resource-poor areas of the world.Missed opportunities for vaccination may be one of the important contributors to the menace.Objectives: To determine the prevalence of missed opportunities for vaccination and identify factors associated with this among Nigerian children in the
Plant cell walls display a considerable degree of diversity in their compositions and molecular architectures.In some cases the functional significance of a particular cell wall type appears to be easy to discern: secondary cells walls are often heavy reinforced with lignin that provides the required durability; the thin cell walls of pollen tubes