Cell Surface and Membrane Engineering: Emerging Technologies and Applications

Cell Surface and Membrane Engineering: Emerging Technologies and Applications

Membranes constitute the interface between the basic unit of life-a single cell-and the outside environment and thus in many ways comprise the ultimate "functional biomaterial". To perform the many and often conflicting functions required in this role, for example to partition intracellular contents from the outside environment while maintaining rapid intake of nutrients and efflux of waste pro...

Emerging Security Technologies and Applications

Due to the quick increase in number of mobile, ubiquitous, cloud, network and communication applications and studies, many computer and communication systems, wired or wireless, have been released to service their customers (human users or other systems). However, hackers everywhere around the world may attack these systems for some reasons, e.g., stealing one company’s business secrets for ano...

Microbial Cell Surface Display: Its Medical and Environmental Applications

Cell-surface display is the expression of peptides and proteins on the surface of living cells by fusing them tofunctional components of cells which are exposed to the environment of cells. This strategy can be carriedout using different surface proteins of cells as anchoring motifs and different proteins from different sourcesas a passenger protein. It is a promising strategy...

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Genetic Engineering and Biological Weapons

Software Engineering: Evolution and Emerging Technologies

The success of free software and open source projects has increased interest in utilizing the open source model for mature software development. However, the ad hoc nature of open source development may result in poor quality software or failures for a number of volunteer projects. In this paper, projects from SourceForge are assessed to test the hypothesis that there is a relationship between ...