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Synthesis of DNA Using a New Two-Step Cycle
Douglas J. Dellinger, Jason R. Betley, Tadeusz K. Wyrzykiewicz, and Marvin H. Caruthers

RNA Synthesis Using 2'-O-(Tert-Butyldimethylsilyl) Protection
Brian S. Sproat

RNA Oligonucleotide Synthesis Via 5'-Silyl-2'-Orthoester Chemistry
Stephanie A. Hartsel, David E. Kitchen, Stephen A. Scaringe, and William S. Marshall

Dimethylthiarum Disulfide: New Sulfur Transfer Reagent in Phosphorothioates Oligonucleotide Synthesis
Zhiwei Wang, Quanlai Song, and Yogesh S. Sanghvi

Assay for Evaluating Ribonuclease H-Mediated Degradation of RNA-Antisense Oligonucleotide Duplexes
Annie Galarneau, Kyung-Lyum Min, Maria M. Mangos, and Masad J. Damha

Di- and Oligonucleotide Synthesis Using H-Phosphonate Chemistry
Jacek Stawinski and Roger Strömberg

Solid-Phase Synthesis of Circular Oligonucleotides
Enrique Pedroso, Nuria Escaja, Miriam Frieden, and Anna Grandas

Locked Nucleic Acid Synthesis
Henrik M. Pfundheller, Anders M. Sørensen, Christian Lomholt, Anders M. Johansen, Troels Koch, and Jesper Wengel

Synthesis of DNA Mimics Representing HypNA-pPNA Hetero-oligomers
Vladimir A. Efimov and Oksana G. Chakhmakhcheva

Base-Modified Oligonucleotides With Increased Duplex Stability: Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines Replacing Purines
Frank Seela, Yang He, Junlin He, Georg Becher, Rita Kröschel, Matthias Zulauf, and Peter Leonard

Introduction of Hypermodified Nucleotides in RNA
Darrell R. Davis and Ashok C. Bajji

Chemical Methods for Peptide-Oligonucleotide Conjugate Synthesis
Dmitry A. Stetsenko and Michael J. Gait

Biotin-Labeled Oligonucleotides With Extraordinarily Long Tethering Arms
A. Michael Morocho, Valeri Karamyshev, Olga Shcherbinina, and Nikolai Polushin

Universal Labeling Chemistry for Nucleic Acid Detection on DNA Chips
Ali Laayoun,Eloy Bernal-Méndez, Isabelle Sothier, Mitsuharu Kotera, and Alain Troesch

Postsynthetic Functionalization of Triple Helix-Forming Oligonucleotides
Alexandre S. Boutorine, and Jian-Sheng Sun

Fluorescence-Based On-Line Detection as an Analytical Tool in RNA Electrophoresis
Ute Scheffer and Michael Göbel

Design and Optimization of Molecular Beacon Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays
Jacqueline A. M. Vet and Salvatore A. E. Marras

High-Throughput Production of Optimized Primers (Fimers) for Whole-Genome Direct Sequencing
Nikolai Polushin, Andrei Malykh, A. Michael Morocho, Alexei Slesarev, and Sergei Kozyavkin

Nonenzymatic Template-Directed RNA Synthesis
Marcus Hey and Michael Göbel

DNAse I Footprinting of Small Molecule Binding Sites on DNA
Christian Bailly, Jérôme Kluza, Christopher Martin, Thomas Ellis, and Michael J. Waring

Gene Targeting Using Peptide Nucleic Acid
Peter E. Nielsen

Nucleic Acid Library Construction Using Synthetic DNA Constructs
Hani S. Zaher and Peter J. Unrau

In Vitro Selection From Combinatorial Nucleic Acid Libraries
Andres Jäschke

In Vitro Selection Procedures for Identifying DNA and RNA Aptamers Targeted to Nucleic Acids and Proteins
Eric Dausse, Christian Cazenave, Bernard Rayner, and Jean-Jacques Toulmé

Short Double-Stranded Ribonucleic Acid as Inhibitor of Gene Expression by the Interference Mechanism
Jean-Rémi Bertrand, Andrei Maksimenko, and Claude Malvy

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