44 Result(s)
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Downstream Processing of Medicinal Mushroom Products
Medicinal mushrooms are higher fungi that consist of ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, and imperfect fungi. They have been long used as tonic and traditional medicine in East Asia, Europe, and Africa. Contemporary ...
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Fundamentals and Applications of Optically Active Melanin-Based Materials
Melanin is a group of ubiquitous biological pigments. It has excellent photonic properties such as broadband light absorption and high refractive index, combined with other physicochemical functions like free ...
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Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) as a Platform for Vaccination and Targeted Drug Delivery
Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are nanoparticles secreted from the bacterial cell surface. They range from 10 to 300 nm in size and possess similar surface characteristics to the cell from which they are deriv...
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Marine Sponge Metagenomics
The sponge is one of the oldest multicellular invertebrates in the world. Because of its special pore canal structure and characteristics of filter feeding, a large amount of microorganisms adhere to it. After...
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Nanomaterial-Based Dual Detection Platforms: Optics Meets Electrochemistry
Nanoparticles are becoming popular tools for optical and electrochemical biosensors; in this chapter we aim to provide a basic understanding of gold nanoparticles and quantum dots. We begin with the intrinsic ...
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Microwave-Assisted Conversion of Lignin
is the most abundant natural aromatic compounds in the world consisting of three : , and alcohol, which are cross-linked to each other with a variety of different . Although the compositional propert...
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Utilization of Green Chemical Techniques in Enzymolysis of Cellulose
The effective utilization of cellulose is topic concept. Among various methods, the interest in enzymolysis of cellulose is doubtless. Cellulase provides the highest selectivity for the hydrolysis of the β-glycos...
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Microalgae Lipid Extraction Methods and the Fuel Characteristics of Isochrysis galbana by Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction
Fuel characteristics of microalgae lipid extracted by the ultrasound-assisted method accompanied with solvents are investigated. Successfully developed microalgae lipid separation methods include supercritical...
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Stem Cells for Cardiac Regeneration by Cell Therapy and Myocardial Tissue Engineering
Congestive heart failure, which often occurs progressively following a myocardial infarction, is characterized by impaired myocardial perfusion, ventricular dilatation, and cardiac dysfunction. Novel treatment...
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Recent Developments in Biodesulfurization of Fossil Fuels
The emission of sulfur oxides can have adverse effects on the environment. Biodesulfurization of fossil fuels is attracting more and more attention because such a bioprocess is environmentally friendly. Some t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MetNet: Systems Biology Tools for Arabidopsis
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Quantitative Colocalisation Imaging: Concepts, Measurements, and Pitfalls
Many questions in cell biology and biophysics involve the quantitation of the colocalisation of proteins tagged with different fluorophores and their interaction. However, the incomplete separation of the diff...
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Visualization in Genomics and Proteomics
In the age of high-throughput biological technology, experimental data have grown exponentially. Searching for data structures and succinctly presenting them is challenging but all the more essential. Genomic ...
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Cellular to Tissue Informatics: Approaches to Optimizing Cellular Function of Engineered Tissue
Tissue engineering is a rapidly expanding, multi-disciplinary field in biomedicine. It provides the ability to manipulate living cells and biomaterials for the purpose of restoring, maintaining, and enhanc...
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Suppression of Cell Growth by Platinum Nanocolloids as Scavengers against Reactive Oxygen Species
Electrolysed-reduced water (ERW) contained Platinum nanocolloids (PtNCs) of 1–10 nm, suggesting that PtNCs in ERW functioned as active hydrogen donors and scavenge intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS). ...
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Effect of Reduced Water on the Apoptotic Cell Death Triggered by Oxidative Stress in Pancreatic β HIT-T15 Cell
Recent studies have demonstrated that reactive oxygen species9ROS9and the resulting oxidative stress play an important role in apoptosis. Apoptosis is implicated in pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus. Antiox...
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Biological Sample Preparation System Using Pressure Cycling Technology (PCT)
Boston Biomedica Inc., (BBI) has developed a proprietary Pressure Cycling Technology (PCT) based Sample Preparation System (PCT SPS) that utilizes a specially designed instrument (BarocyclerTM) and reaction conta...
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Physical Stabilization of Proteins in Aqueous Solution
The formulation scientist’s key goal is to achieve long-term stability of a drug compound. In the case of protein drugs, stabilization means not only maintaining the native chemical structure, but the native s...
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Recombinant Production of Native Proteins from Escherichia coli
The production of large quantities of proteins became possible with the advent of recombinant DNA technology, and the subsequent expression of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli (E. coli) (Itakura, 1977). R...
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Microbial Communities in the World’s Deepest Ocean Bottom -The Mariana Trench
We have performed the molecular analyses of the DNA extracted from the sediment of the Mariana Trench. DNA fragments corresponding to the 16S rDNA sequences of bacteria and archaea, and the pressure-regulated ...
