Plant seeds naturally accumulate storage reserves (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids) that are mobilized during germination to provide energy and raw materials to support early seedling growth. Seeds have been exploited as bioreactors for the production to foreign materials, but stable, high level expression has been elusive, in part due to the intrinsic bias for producing the natural reserves in...

A model of inward foreign direct investment for Australia is estimated. Foreign direct investment is found to be positively related to economic and productivity growth and negatively related to foreign portfolio investment, trade openness, the exchange rate and the foreign real interest rate. Foreign direct investment is found to be a substitute for both portfolio investment and trade in goods ...

The expression of cloned genes in mammalian cells is a basic tool for understanding gene expression, protein structure, and function, and biological regulatory mechanisms. The level of protein expression from heterologous genes introduced into mammalian cells depends upon multiple factors including DNA copy number, efficiency of transportation, mRNA processing, mRNA transport, mRNA stability, a...

OBJECTIVE Ear, nose and throat foreign bodies are common in ENT clinical practice. This study was designed to establish the local data of otorhinolaryngeal foreign bodies in term of prevalence among paediatric and adult groups, the clinical features, types of foreign body at different sites, and laterality of foreign bodies. METHOD This study was carried out at ENT department, Sarawak General...

Detailing the inflammatory mechanisms of biomaterial-implant induced foreign body responses (FBR) has implications for revealing targetable pathways that may reduce leukocyte activation and fibrotic encapsulation of the implant. We have adapted a model of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) bead injection to perform an assessment of the mechanistic role of the ASC-dependent inflammasome in this pro...

Neurogenic foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is diagnosed when listeners perceive speech associated with motor speech impairments as foreign rather than disordered. Speakers with foreign accent syndrome typically have aphasia. It remains unclear how far language changes might contribute to the perception of foreign accent syndrome independent of accent. Judges with and without training in language ...

A Cas protein from the CRISPR defence system against foreign DNA, also functions in endogenous gene regulation. Sampson et al (2013) have revealed that in pathogenic Francisella bacteria, the Cas9 protein guided by small RNAs represses the mRNA of a lipoprotein. This novel mechanism of post-transcriptional regulation enables the infecting bacteria to evade the TLR2-based innate immune response ...

SlH,-Doorgaova Doorgaya, a female child, aged 1 year, of the YVaddar caste, resident of the village Kaniarevadi in the Chittapur Taluq of the Kalgi (Paigoh) District in H. H. the Nizam's Dominions, was brought to the Civil dispensary in the morning of the 17th December 1911 at about 10 A.M. The child was suffering from great dyspnoea and when enquiied into, her father said that the child had ac...

Biomimetic calcium phosphate coatings have been developed for bone regeneration and repair because of their biocompatibility, osteoconductivity, and easy preparation. They can be rendered osteoinductive by incorporating an osteogenic agent, such as bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2), into the crystalline lattice work in physiological situations. The biomimetic calcium phosphate coating enable...