The recently developed liquid-based Papanicolaou (Pap) smear allows not only cytologic evaluation but also collection of DNA for detection of HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer. We tested these samples to detect somatic mutations present in rare tumor cells that might accumulate in the cer...
This method can be used, for example to inhibit the infectivity of oral secretions, for example in a hospital setting where medical personnel are exposed to infectious HIV-1 secretions. In one embodiment, the method comprises contacting an HIV-1 virion with the human SAG compositions described ...
Write a function called best that take two arguments: the 2-character abbreviated name of a state and an outcome name. The function reads the outcome-of-care-measures.csv _le and returns a character vector with the name of the hospital that has the best (i.e. lowest) 30-day mortality ...