We would like to thank Mr. Chao Gao for his technical support. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31100777, 30988003 and 90608010) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2011013). Jie Xu, Xi Chert, Donghai Li, Qun Chen, Zhen Zhou, Dongxia Hou, Jin Wang, Qipeng Zhang, Ke Zen and Chen-Yu Zhang declare that they have no conflict of interest. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.
SMALL RNA IN REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE: TOO SMALL TO BE FOUND Significant background in no-template or no-primer RT-PCR is frequently noted. However, the underlying mechanism is still unclear. In this issue, Jie Xu and c...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.30988003,31071232,3100032331000478 and 90608010);the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)(No.2011CB504803).
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