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Recent Progress in Microbial Cultivation Techniques
Recent advances in the improvement of microbial cultivation are reviewed, with emphasis on biochemical engineering techniques as a means of obtaining...
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High Rate Production of Hydrogen/Methane from Various Substrates and Wastes
To treat soluble and solid wastes and recover energy from them, high rate methane fermentation, especially using the UASB (upflow anaerobic sludge...
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Structural features of fungal genomes
Eighteen fungal genomes have been sequenced to date from a variety of taxonomic groups, with fifteen Ascomycota, two Basidomycota and one...
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Comparison of Molecular Mechanisms of Somatic and Zygotic Embryogenesis
Somatic embryogenesis has been used as a model system to understand the mechanisms regulating plant embryogenesis. The morphological and...
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Importance of Cytoskeleton and Cell Wall in Somatic Embryogenesis
Both the cytoskeleton composed of microtubules and actin microfilaments as well as cell wall components such as arabinogalactan proteins and...
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Gametic Embryogenesis in Triticum: a Study of Some Critical Factors in Haploid (Microspore) Embryogenesis
This review of embryogenesis from microspores in two types of wheat examines the influences of various procedures used to induce and produce...
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Comparative genomics and gene finding in fungi
In the spring of 2005, we had access to 18 fully sequenced fungal genomes, and more are coming rapidly. New approaches and methods are being...
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Cancer Classification with Microarray Data Using Support Vector Machines
Microarrays (Schena et al. 1995) are also called gene chips or DNA chips. On a microarray chip, there are thousands of spots. Each spot contains the...
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Random Voronoi Ensembles for Gene Selection in DNA Microarray Data
Currently, cancer and other complex pathologies are analyzed mainly by morphological classification. In the past few decades there have been dramatic...
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Class Prediction with Microarray Datasets
Microarray technology is having a significant impact in the biological and medical sciences and class prediction will play an increasingly important...
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Advanced Targeting Strategies for Murine Retroviral and Adeno-associated Viral Vectors
Targeted gene delivery involves broadening viral tropism to infect previously nonpermissive cells, replacing viral tropism to infect a target cell...
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Nonviral Delivery of Cancer Genetic Vaccines
The potential use of genetic vaccines to address numerous diseases including cancer is promising, but currently unrealized. Here, we review...
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Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Linkage
This chapter provides a summary of fundamental materials on genetic algorithms. It presents definitions of genetic algorithm terms and briefly...
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Production and Formulation of Adenovirus Vectors
Adenovirus vectors have attracted considerable interest over the past decade, with ongoing clinical development programs for applications ranging...
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Molecular Conjugates
Molecular conjugates are nanometer-sized entities consisting of synthetic materials (lipids, polycations, targeting agents, and so on) and nucleic...
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Genetic Linkage Learning Techniques
The importance of learning genetic linkage has been discussed in the previous chapter and recognized in the field of genetic and evolutionary...
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A Dynamic Model of Gene Regulatory Networks Based on Inertia Principle
In molecular biology, functions are produced by a set of macromolecules that interact at different levels. Genes and their products, proteins,...
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Regeneration of Urologic Tissues and Organs
Patients suffering from a variety of urologic diseases may be treated with transplanted tissues and organs. However, there is a shortage of donor...
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Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy with Autofluorescent Proteins
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a versatile technique operating at the single-molecule level, that successfully meets many challenges...
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Solid Sulfur Allotropes
Sulfur is the element with the largest number of solid allotropes. Most of these consist of unbranched cyclic molecules with ring sizes ranging from...