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unusual facts about hinge



Agostino Ferrari

Agostino Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian hinge manufacturer located in Verderio Superiore, Province of Lecco.

Needle remover

So Becton Dickinson (BD) has recently come out with a variation on this safety: instead of a hinge, the device slides over the needle and fully covers the tip of the needle, so accidental needle-sticks do not occur (Becton, Dickinson, and Company, 2004, BD SafetyGlide).

Small nucleolar RNA F1/F2/snoR5a

These three snoRNas identified in rice (Oryza sativa), called F1, F2 and snoR5a, belong to the H/ACA box class of snoRNAs as they have the predicted hairpin-hinge-hairpin-tail structure and has the conserved H/ACA-box motifs.


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