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Biotechnology
**-Lin Wang
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Genetic Regulatory Networks Guiding Islet Development
The pancreatic islet is a mini-organ that consists of several hormone-secreting endocrine cell types in adults. Islets execute a vital physiological function in regulating glucose homeostasis, and endocrine ce...
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Roadmap to Low-Cost Catalytic Pyrolysis of Plastic Wastes for Production of Liquid Fuels
Catalytic pyrolysis is an emerging process that can help eliminate the harmful effects of plastic wastes by turning them into liquid fuels. This chapter presents an overview of low-cost catalytic processing of...
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Recent Progress in Biomedical Applications of Chitosan Derivatives as Gene Carrier
Appropriate gene carriers are vital components of gene therapy for treating numerous intractable diseases. Compared with viral carriers, non-viral carriers exhibit lower immunogenicity and higher biosafety, wh...
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Recent Trends in Sustainable Textile Waste Recycling Methods: Current Situation and Future Prospects
In recent years, there have been increasing concerns in the disposal of textile waste around the globe. The growth of textile markets not only depends on population growth but also depends on economic and fash...
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An Evolutionary View of the Biogenesis and Function of Rice Small RNAs
Small RNAs are key players in transcriptional and posttranscriptional gene silencing. The rice genus Oryza comprises two domesticated species and 22 wild species. Using deep-sequencing technology, a variety of sm...
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Advances and Practices of Bioprocess Scale-up
This chapter addresses the update progress in bioprocess engineering. In addition to an overview of the theory of multi-scale analysis for fermentation process, examples of scale-up practice combining microbia...
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Application of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers in Purification and Separation for Epothilones
A highly effective purification process combined with molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) was developed to selectively isolate Epothilones (Epos) from a complex milieu. The MIPs of Epos were successfully syn...
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Isolation and Identification of a Cellulose-Producing Bacterial Strain from the Genus Bacillus
Strain ZF-7 was isolated from defective fruits in this study, and its product was determined as bacterial cellulose in view of the results of cellulose special reaction, FTIR spectroscopy analysis, and cellulo...
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Disruption of Microvessels by Focused Ultrasound with Microbubbles to Cause the Extravasation of Macromolecules and Observed by Two-photon Fluorescence Microscopy
In this study, we investigated the permeability variation of blood vessels produced by focused ultrasound in presence of micro-bubbles (MB). Both diameter and radius of curvature for the ultrasound transducer ...
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Wireless Nanotransducers for In-Vivo Medical Applications
Nanotechnology has the potential to allow the development of more effective and less invasive methodologies for the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. In particular, wirelessly-linked implantable nanotr...
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Boronic Acid-Based Fluorescence Sensors for Glucose Monitoring
As of today there is no cure of diabetes, and approximately 2.1% of world population is affected by this disease.1 The inability for diabetic patients to appropriately control blood glucose level has long-term he...
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Cost Estimates and Sensitivity Analyses for the Ammonia Fiber Explosion Process
Process designs were conducted for each unit of the conceptual ammonia fiber explosion (AFEX) process, and fixed capital investment and operating costs were estimated. AFEX costs about $20-40/t of dry biomass ...
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Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Resources: A Study on Sinorhizobium fredii and Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Their Applications
With the development of problems, such as that of food, population, energy resources and environmental pollution, scientists are now focusing on biological dinitrogen fixation in order to make a contribution t...
