Bioethanol and plant oil-derived biodiesel are generally considered first generation biofuels.
Recognizing their apparent disadvantages, scientists and engineers are developing more …

… Dembitsky VM, Srebnik M., Variability of hydrocarbon and fatty acid components in cultures
of the filamentous cyanobacterium Scytonema sp. isolated from microbial community “black …

… 0.4 M NaCl (buffer A) followed by a 20-min gradient (3 ml/min) from 0.4 M NaCl to 1 M NaCl
in the … The column was washed and eluted with a 7-min gradient from 0 to 0.25 M NaCl in the …

Importance Chemotherapy may induce alopecia. Although scalp cooling devices have been
used to prevent this alopecia, efficacy has not been assessed in a randomized clinical trial. …

An optical switch operating at a wavelength of 1.55 μm and showing a 12 dB modulation
depth is introduced. The device is implemented in a silicon racetrack resonator using an …

Background— Although aldosterone, acting via mineralocorticoid receptors, causes left
ventricular (LV) hypertrophy in experimental models of high-aldosterone hypertension, little is …

… The conventional pathway for amorphization is to heat the crystalline state above the
melting point (T m = 615 C; ref. 8) to disorder the lattice and then rapidly quench the system to …

Management of acute pain remains a significant clinical problem. In preclinical studies, CB
2 cannabinoid receptor-selective agonists inhibit nociception without producing central …

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), aldosterone, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are
implicated in myocardial remodeling. Although ROS, cytokines, and neurohormones regulate …

Unrelieved pain is a major medical problem. In response to this problem, the Joint Commission
on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) launched new standards for pain …