1.   The restriction sites EcoRI and NcoI were used to generate the ble gene specific fragment for the run-on transciption assays.

2.   Biotech firms have sparked a controversy in their race to discover and patent a type of gene fragment called an expressed sequence tag.

3.   But he rejected suggestions that the Patent Office will cause trouble if it issues many patents on gene fragments.

4.   Each gene fragment is designed to catch one and only one gene.

5.   Gene chips are pieces of glass or plastic about the size of a microscopic slide on which thousands of genes or gene fragments can be placed.

6.   Hundreds of gene fragments are recombined to produce millions of antibody shapes, and they vary in length, width, electric charge and other properties.

7.   If the suspect gene is present, it will bind to the gene fragments on the chip.

8.   Incyte actually inserts its gene fragments into harmless bacteria.

9.   In what has often been compared to a land grab, companies and universities have filed for patents on hundreds of thousands of genes and gene fragments.

10.   It has already received patents on hundreds of genes or gene fragments, and has thousands more applications pending before the patent office.