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Use of inadequate data and methodological errors lead to a dramatic overestimation of the water footprint of Jatropha curcas
In their recent article, Gerbens-Leenes et al. (1) calculated the water footprint (WF, the amount of water required to produce 1 GJ of energy) of several bioenergy crops. One of the most remarkable…
Received 08 July 2009 10:20 UTC; Posted 08 July 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Ecology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
ECoG-based short-range recurrent stimulation techniques to stabilize tissue at risk of progressive damage: Theory based on clinical observations
We introduce theoretical concepts based on chaos control to stabilize in acute stroke the tissue at risk of progressive damage by preventing adverse effects of waves of mass neuronal depolarization…
Received 07 July 2009 16:13 UTC; Posted 08 July 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Neuroscience
Development of a new method to preserve caprine cauda epididymal spermatozoa in-situ at -10 degrees Centigrade
Electrolyte free mediums prepared with soybean lecithin-glycerol,Coenzyme Q10–glycerol and soybean lecithin-Coenzyme Q10-glycerol were inoculated separately into ligated cauda epididymides, equilib…
Received 26 June 2009 10:45 UTC; Posted 26 June 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology
Herbal Drugs in Mirror of Alzheimer’s Disease
Commercially available Ginkgo biloba leaf extracts may lack specificity as to the binding of copper and zinc ions in human cells. This might be the reason why Ginkgo extracts have no predictable an…
Received 11 June 2009 07:38 UTC; Posted 11 June 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Plant Biology
Screening Lactic Acid Bacteria for Antimicrobial Compound Production
Lactic Acid Bacteria was known as potential probiotic used in food industries and dairy products and probable to produce antimicrobial compound that inhibit variety of microorganisms. The objective…
Received 05 June 2009 02:56 UTC; Posted 05 June 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology
Effect of Stimulating Magenetic Field on Plants
A plant’s metabolism contains 90-95 percent of diamagnetic water and rest contains several apra, ferro and dia metals and non-metals.The present work is to study stimulating magnetic effect on plan…
Received 02 June 2009 14:21 UTC; Posted 08 June 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Plant Biology
Fatty acids composition of some freshwater fish
The aims of this paper were to investigate the component fatty acids of some freshwater fish species by comparing the levels of essential fatty acids present. The FAME were determined by GC-MS and …
Received 12 May 2009 11:06 UTC; Posted 13 May 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Chemistry
Design of selective peptide antibiotics by using the sequence moment concept
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Received 02 May 2009 08:02 UTC; Posted 04 May 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Bioinformatics
Reflect: Augmented Browsing for the Life Scientist
Anyone who regularly reads life science literature often comes across names of genes, proteins, or small molecules that they would like to know more about. To make this process easier, we have deve…
Received 02 May 2009 01:44 UTC; Posted 04 May 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Chemistry, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Intelligence-based medicine
Despite seven hundred thousand new medical references last year, the relationship between a given set of medical features and specific pathophysiology, treatment, and criteria of improvement is oft…
Received 28 April 2009 14:39 UTC; Posted 01 May 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology
