BACKGROUND Microalgae can accumulate considerable amounts of lipids under different nutrient-deficient conditions, making them as one of the most promising sustainable sources for biofuel production. These inducible processes provide a powerful experimental basis for fully understanding the mechanisms of physiological acclimation, lipid hyperaccumulation and gene expression in algae. In this st...

Diabetes is an important chronic disease and the 4th leading cause of death in Taiwan. Hyperglycemia-induced oxidative and inflammatory damage are the main causes of chronic complications in diabetic patients. The red guava (red-fleshed guava cultivar of Psidium guajava L.) is a tropical fruit belonging to the Myrtaceae family and an important commercial crop in Taiwan. In this study, the prote...

Recently, evidence suggests that dark CO2 fixation in the pelagic realm of the ocean does not only occur in the suboxic and anoxic water bodies but also in the oxygenated meso- and bathypelagic waters of the North Atlantic. To elucidate the significance and phylogeny of the key organisms mediating dark CO2 fixation in the tropical Atlantic, we quantified functional genes indicative for CO2 fixa...

The research activities of ACCA are situated in four domains, all centred around the industrial employment of advanced computer architectures: 1) ACCA is specialised in the development of system level design tools for the real-time prototyping and implementation of heterogeneous digital signal processing (DSP) systems. With these tools, it also implements DSP applications for third parties on c...

Shwachman–Diamond syndrome (SDS) is an autosomal recessive disorder (OMIM 260400), characterized by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, skeletal abnormalities and bone marrow (BM) dysfunction, with a risk, as high as 30%, to develop myelodysplastic syndrome and/or acute myeloid leukaemia (MDS/AML). The SBDS gene (OMIM 607744) is localized on chromosome 7 at the band q11 and mutations of this gen...