22 Result(s)
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Climate Change Resilient Crops to Combat Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Marginal Lands
Food security and environmental conservation are crucial worldwide issues, especially given climate change’s uncertainty. The food system still deals with increased food production demand and dietary changes d...
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Verfügbarkeit von pluripotenten Stammzellen aus normalen Zellen in der Krebsforschung
Seit der Einführung induzierter pluripotenter Stammzellen (iPSCs) im Bereich der Biowissenschaften haben sich die Möglichkeiten zur Erforschung von Krankheiten und zur Entwicklung von Therapien aus verschieden...
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Molecular Events and Defence Mechanism Against Biotic Stress Induced by Bio-Priming of Beneficial Microbes
The monotonous and regular use of chemical pesticides or fertilisers not only adversely affects the nutrient and food quality but also affects the health of human beings and surrounding environment. Hence nowa...
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Lingzhi, An Overview
Lingzhi mushroom refers to a group of fungal species belonging to the genus Ganoderma. During the past 10 years, the genetic studies of Lingzhi have made great strides. The nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of se...
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Availability of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Normal Cells in Cancer Science
Since the innovation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) came up in the life science field, the opportunities to study diseases and to develop therapies have arisen with different perspectives. With iPSC...
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Micro/Nano Neuronal Network Cell Biosensors
Neuronal network cell biosensors were developed by coupling the neuronal network with multisite detection devices. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on three major issues, including the patterned growth of...
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Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Photosynthetic Cells in Plants and Algae
Plant and algal oils are some of the most energy-dense renewable compounds provided by nature. Triacylglycerols (TAGs) are the major constituent of plant oils, which can be converted into fatty acid methyl est...
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Label-Free DNA Biosensors with Field-Effect Devices
In the recent decades, the detection of specific deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules has attracted more and more attention due to the fast increasing demand of DNA analysis, which plays very important roles ...
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Smell Sensors Based on Olfactory Receptor
The discovery of (ORs) multigene superfamily promotes the research in the field of olfactory molecular mechanisms and signal transduction pathways greatly.
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DNA-Decorated Devices as Smell Sensors
Biomimetic smell sensors have achieved significant progress in the recent two decades, which have shown promising prospects and potential applications in many fields such as biomedicine, environmental protecti...
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Taste Sensors with Gustatory Cells
With the fast advancements of cell-based biosensors in the past two decades, extensive amount of works have been performed in the development of gustatory cell-based taste sensors for chemical sensing that con...
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Gustatory Receptor-Based Taste Sensors
A number of studies are dedicated to studying “electronic tongues” to imitate human taste, which can be applied at the food and beverage industries by using sensor arrays in previous decades.
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Smell Sensors with Insect Antenna
Biologically inspired sensors utilize highly developed biological olfactory functional components as sensitive elements for the detection of specific chemical compounds. Biological olfactory functional compone...
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Thin Cell Layer Technology in Micropropagation of Jatropha curcas L.
Physic nut plant (Jatropha curcas L.) is considered as one of potential sources for a non-edible biofuel-producing energy crop throughout the world. The conventional propagation methods for this species present m...
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Recent Advances in Embryonic Stem Cell Engineering Toward Tailored Lineage Differentiation
Embryonic stem cell-based drug screening and therapeutics provide unique opportunities for drug discovery, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Despite the great promise, a major limitation in transl...
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Cancer Stem Cells in Solid Tumors
The existence of cancer stem cells continues to be extensively debated among scientists, and given the mounting evidence, it is an area that needs further examination. The possible reason for resistance to cur...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Diversity of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
The discovery of the physical phenomenon of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in 1946 gave rise to the spectroscopic technique that has become a remarkably versatile research tool. One could oversimplify NMR sp...
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Post-translational modification of ACC oxidase of white clover (Trifolium repens L.)
From studies on ethylene biosynthesis in the pasture legume white clover (Trifolium repens L.), it is clear that transcription of the two committed enzymes in the pathway, ACC synthase and ACC oxidase, is under s...
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Commercial Applications of Thermophile Bioleaching
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Use of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Markers to Assist Wide Hybridization in Cotton
In recent years, molecular marker-assisted selection has been integrated into several plant breeding programs to select traits of agronomical importance. Isozymes were initially sought for this purpose, but th...
