Biology Resources (page 17)

Introduction In the last decade HIV has become a global epidemic, in 2009 there was a record of 33.3 million people living with HIV and 1.8 million deaths by AIDS (WHO, 2009). HI...

Each person on the earth generates waste to carry out his activities. 'The word "Waste" is highly subjective, while some persons see waste as a risk to public health and the environme...

It can feel good lounging around and doing nothing... sometimes too good! Whether it is to avoid work or escape a physical activity, we`ve all had those days. But why are some people ...

The Human Microbiome and Preventive Medicine The human body is host to hundreds of species of "friendly" bacteria, mainly residing in the gut, and we are only now beginning to...

We have sequenced miRNA libraries from human embryonic, neural and foetal mesenchymal stem cells. We report that the majority of miRNA genes encode mature isomers that vary in siz...

Voluntary movement forms a key aspect of mammalian life in several ways, including both planned and goal-directed movement, and rapid responses to constantly changing external stimuli...

The specificity of vesicle fusion is achieved in three ways 1) vesicle transport, 2) tethering of vesicles to target membranes, and 3) membrane fusion. Protein-protein interaction ena...

As a race, humanity is an inefficient and wasteful organism. We are also the only entity on the planet which adapts the environment to suit ourselves rather than adapting ourselves to...

The Quest! The quest to make it stick! Isn't that what we all desperately strive towards as teachers; the magic formula to make the contents of that lesson stick and not dissipate th...

BIOTECHNOLOGY : PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES Biotechnology is the techniques of using live organisms or their parts to produce products and processes useful to humans EFB (Euro...