The usage of pulsed electric field for conditioning substrates can significantly enhance biogas yield in…
Month: August 2015
Modelling the effect of vaccines on cholera transmission
Cholera is a diarrheal disease that is caused by an intestinal bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. Recently…
Social factors linked to heart disease for all
The social determinants of health are multi-dimensional and multi-level, yet we have few studies that…
Process concept for a zero-emission route to clean middle-distillate fuels from coal
A novel process configuration has been developed for producing clean middle-distillate fuels from coal with…
Scaffold-integrated microchips for end-to-end in vitro tumor cell attachment, xenograft formation
A new microchip has been developed that can retrieve microfluidically attached cancer cells for serial…
Consortium of motile, cellulose degrading bacteria can be used for solid state cellulose hydrolysis
Cellulose hydrolysis has many industrial applications in such fields as biofuel production, food, paper, cosmetic,…
Volcanic bacteria take minimalist approach to survival
New research is helping to solve the puzzle of how bacteria are able to live…
Employee health codes of conduct
Workplace wellness can be a positive source of health and empowerment for employees. While many…
Understanding molecular mechanism leading to addiction in humans
A new study opens the field to new understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying addiction…
New biosensors for managing microbial ‘workers’
New biosensors have been developed that could improve control and complexity of metabolically engineered microbes,…