Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

National Institutes of Health, a Component of the US Dept. of Health & Human Services

Patrick R Murray

Michael A Brasch

Timothy M Wiles

Brent Ronald Pohl

Charles C Yu

Patrick Shawn Beaty

Ming-hsiung Yeh

Mei Yang-Woytowitz

Liping Feng

Ben Turng

Gary F Hershner

Eric Ursprung

Xiaofei Chang

Dwight Livingston

Ammon David Lentz

Kevin Bailey

David E Greenberg

Adrian Zelazny

Gerard Lotz

Steven M Holland

Ming-Hsiung Yeh

An apparatus and associated methods of use for a controlled combination of reagents is disclosed. The apparatus includes a vessel, a vessel insert, and a cap element. The vesselhas a body portionfor receiving a biological sample. The vessel insertreceives at least one reagent therein. Preferably, the vessel insertis received in a portionof the vessel. The cap elementis attached to the vesselto secure the vessel insertin the vessel. During use, the vessel insertis adapted to release its contents when the biological sample is introduced into the body portionof the vesselupon application of an intermixing force to the vessel insert. A variety of intermixing forces may be applied, depending upon the embodiment of the present invention and its associated methods of use.

Blood culture bottles with mechanisms for controlled release of substances into culture media

Provided is an isolated novel Gram-negative bacterium, wherein the bacterium is an aerobic, facultative methylotroph that produces colonies that are yellow pigmented, wherein the bacterium can use methanol as a sole carbon source and can oxidize glucose and ethanol into acid. Also provided are novel purified polypeptides and isolated nucleic acids from the bacterium. Further provided are methods of using the bacterium and the purified polypeptides to degrade organic material and for use in biofuel cells.

Newly discovered bacterium in the family acetobacteraceae

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Gibson Island, MD, United States of America

Patrick R Murray