Genetic diversity is crucial for progress in plant breeding as well as for adaptation to future environmental challenges. Maize is the most genetically diverse crop species. Maize was domesticated from teosinte about ...

Anxiety disorders cause chronic reactions to a triggering event that disrupt pursuit of normal daily routines. Disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder or specific phobia can be ameliorated through the process of ...

Beef tenderness is a major factor influencing consumer satisfaction which can only be quantitatively measured using Warner-Bratzler Shear Force (WBSF) after carcasses are harvested and samples have been aged for fourteen ...

In vertebrates, command systems in the brain activate central pattern generators (CPGs) in the spinal cord to generate the basic pattern of locomotor activity, such as swimming or walking.  Reticulospinal (RS) neurons in ...

Part of America's answer to the current energy crisis could be fuels made from plants. Fuel made from plant materials, such as cellulose or corn kernels, not only holds promise of reducing our nation's dependence on foreign ...

Blog entry about human skin. Posted on September 6, 2008.

A number of resistant bacterial pathogens have become the focus of recent concern in human medicine. Studies and facts on use of antibiotics in animals suggest that animal sources contribute little to the problem. The ...

Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) was discovered in 1936, since then this sensitive tool has been used to determine elemental compositions in a variety of sample matrices in the low parts per billion (ppb) range. Researchers ...

A standard approach for the analytical separation of proteins in the field of proteomics is the use of two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE), which separates a complex crude protein samples from a ...

The American Heart Association estimates that cardiovascular disease will claim the lives of nearly two and a half million Americans in 2006. To combat high cholesterol, one of the most common causes of cardiovascular ...

The trans-Golgi network (TGN) reporter protein A-ALP, which is composed of the luminal (LD) and transmembrane domain (TMD) of TGN resident protein ALP fused to the cytosolic domain (CD) of Ste13, allows us to detect its ...

Food allergies affect up to 8% of children and 2% of adults, and peanut allergies are one of the most prevalent and enduring. To understand the mechanisms and how they interact with antibodies it is important to analyze ...

One of the newer methods for imaging and treating cancer is pretargeting. Pretargeting is a relatively simple concept to understand. First, a non-radioactive antibody conjugated to streptavidin is injected into the blood ...

Making decisions is a part of our everyday lives. However, research has focused little on the dimensions of the decision itself as a predictor of decision making behavior. A review of the literature found that much research ...

Relatively new to the scientific community is the RNA interference pathway (RNAi) that can be used to silence post-transcriptional gene expression. Long dsRNA can be introduced into cells and through various mechanisms ...

Recent studies show that adult neural tissues can harbor stem cells within unique niches. In the mammalian central nervous system, neural stem cell (NSC) niches are present in the dentate gyrus and the subventricular zone ...

This is a study of perceived entrepreneurial ability and perceived obstacles to important business relationships of business managers/owners in the Midwest. It was expected that the self perceived entrepreneurial ability ...

Western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, is a major pest in the maize fields of North America; causing tremendous economic loss. WCR vectors Wolbachia spp., an obligate intracellular bacterium. ...

Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) (Applied Materials P5000, CA) was used to deposit three different types of hydrogenated amorphous Silicon Carbide (a-SiC:H) films on quartz and n-type Si substrates. These ...