The story of kuru for me has been an opportunity to work with and know some of the most extraordinary people: Dr Carleton Gajdusek, Dr Vin Zigas and Dr Mike Alpers, to name only a few, and, of course, their many interesting colleagues, families and friends. To begin: I first heard of kuru ca 1960. I was still in high school and was fascinated by many of the interesting facts in the Guinness Boo...

INTRODUCTION Childhood obesity rates appear to be more pronounced among youth in rural areas of the USA. The availability of retail food outlets in rural communities that sell quality, affordable, nutritious foods may be an important factor for encouraging rural families to select a healthy diet and potentially reduce obesity rates. Researchers use the term 'food desert' to describe communities...

Automation can now be found in nearly every industry. However, home automation has yet to reach Pakistan. This paper presents an Internet of Things smart kitchen project that includes and monitoring. In this project, a system was developed automatically detects the temperature. It also monitors humidity level kitchen. built-in gas detection sensors detect any leaks notify user if pressure excee...

Introduction Household-level food storage can make available to consumers, and promotes security. Nevertheless, attention is mostly devoted enhancing at the farmer national levels, neglecting household level. It therefore critical assess practices of households. This study examined households, evaluated expert opinions on household-level storage, assessed effect characteristics has Methods Dzor...

Abstract Background and Aims Recent advances in proteomics have enabled to quantify proteins comprehensively. We aimed establish a platform of urine quantitative for selection the biomarkers assessment health conditions. Since plasma varying amounts were present especially from proteinuric patients, we subtracted protein conteents total proteomes after discovery kidney injuries. On other hand, ...

I F A SERUM contains a gamma globulin which will react with ( agglutinate, hemolyze or sens tize ) certain enetically well-defined red blood cells but not others, it is said to possess an antibody and the antibody is said to be specific for a certain property of the red cells. Thus the specificity of an antibody depends on this selective reactivity. This is often difficult to demonstrate if the...

UNLABELLED According to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter <797> (USP <797>), "Pharmaceutical Compounding-Sterile Preparations," the compounding facility must be physically designed and environmentally controlled to minimize airborne contamination from contacting critical sites. The goal of the project was to evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of our approaches in ...

Concerns over insect resistance, regulatory action, and the needs of organic processors have generated renewed interest in developing nonchemical alternative postharvest treatments to fumigants used on dried fruits and nuts. Low-temperature storage has been identified as one alternative for the Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hiibner), and navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Walker)...

Maintaining and preserving fungal cultures are essential elements of systematics and biodiversity studies. Because fungi are such a diverse group, several methods of cultivation and preservation are required to ensure the viability and morphological, physiological, and genetic integrity of the cultures over time. The cost and convenience of each method, however, also must be considered. We enco...