Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the world. Present therapies for COPD have limited effect on reducing the progression of COPD and suppressing the inflammatory response in the lung. Bulbs of Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don (BFC) have been used in many Asian countries for a long time to treat pulmonary diseases, such as cough, expectoration, and ast...

A protocol has been devised for enhanced in vitro regeneration of critically endangered Mantisia spathulata Schult. and Mantisia wengeri Fischer. Highest Bud Forming Capacity (BFC) of 6.10 +/- 0.55 with an average of 19.93 +/- 3.19 roots was obtained for M. spathulata within 5-6 weeks in Murashige and Skoogs (MS) medium supplemented with a combination of 10.0 microM of N6-benzyladenine (BA) and...

Abstract Bipartite graphs are of great importance in many real-world applications. Butterfly, which is a complete $$2 \times 2$$ 2 × biclique, plays key role bipartite graphs. In this paper, we investigate the problem efficient counting number butterflies. The most adva...

BFC obtained his undergraduate education at Stanford University, receiving a BS in the Biological Sciences and a BA in History. After receiving a PhD in Macromolecular and Cellular Structure and Chemistry from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in 1996, he joined the faculty at TSRI as a member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and the departments of Cell Biology and Chemistry. Hi...

Verticillium dahliae is a soil-borne pathogen that difficult to eliminate, causes severe reduction in the yield and quality of eggplant, could be controlled through environmentally friendly biofumigation. However, mechanisms its effects on dynamic changes soil microbes not clear. In this study, we examined efficacy two Brassica vegetables, mustard (Brassica napiformis, BFN) oilseed rape napus, ...

A self-circulation system is presented for a self-refueling insect-mountable biofuel cell (BFC) using trehalose, the main sugar of insect hemolymph. The maximum power density of 10.5 μW/cm was obtained from cockroach hemolymph (CHL) with added trehalase and mutarotase. The electrodes were protected by a dialysis membrane to prevent decrease of open-circuit voltage by adsorption of proteins in t...

Differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) is used to assess protein stability, transition states, or the Kd values of various ligands, drug molecules, and antibodies. All fluorescent probes published to date either are incompatible with hydrophobic proteins/ligands, precluding analyses of transmembrane or membrane-associated proteins, or have excitation and detection wavelengths outside the range...

The need for new clean energy sources portable devices in biomedical, agro-food industry and environmental related sectors boosts scientists towards the development of strategies harvesting their application biodevices development. In this sense, enzymatic biofuel cells (BFCs) have gained much attention last years. This work faces challenge develop generation BFCs able to be adapted remote pers...