This study investigated two hypotheses: 1) that consistent between-boar variation in frozen semen quality exists and is genetically determined, and 2) molecular markers linked to genes controlling semen freezability can be identified using amplified restriction fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technology. Five ejaculates were collected from each of 129 boars. Semen was diluted into a commerc...

Researchers are calling for a strengthening of the Antarctic Treaty in the face of expected growth in the search for organisms on the continent that may provide lucrative material for biotechnology companies. The call comes because of the background of scientific collaboration that has been in place for more than 40 years which has helped maintain an almost unique international collaboration to...

Abstract Worldwide, hundreds of potato dishes exist, originally composed by cooks in traditional kitchens. Gradually more and applied processed products as ingredients to save time widen their range dishes. The are classified according features, ranging from thickeners soups ready-to-eat snacks. Besides cooks, also the food industry makes ample use (modified) starches, flakes, flour granulates....

We invited Tom Humphreys to Cambridge in 1976, for an EMBO workshop on translational control; Tom worked on protein synthesis in sea urchin eggs. I lent him my yellow bicycle (in those days, you couldn't rent bikes in Cambridge) and we became friends. Tom was director of the Embryology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, and asked if I would like to teach there next su...

ANNALS COMMENTARY " Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) " enshrined under the OECD guidelines provide an excellent framework in raising the bar in research productivity in our country. Ironically, none of the publicaly funded labs in the country have adopted these norms for basic research investigations. If these norms are adopted it may result in enhancing the quality standards, increase credibili...

Keywords: Biobank plasma variable storage time age season Development of the field of biorepository and biospecimen science has been shown to be a crucial tool for the development of biomarkers for health and disease and the development of testable hypotheses in clinical research (Vaught et al., 2011). The times when bio-specimens were tracked through laboratory notebooks and kept in a few free...

In the household appliance industry, heat pump systems have been used for a long time in refrigerators and freezers to cool food, and the industry has driven the development of small, high-quality, low-price heat pump components. The low price of good quality heat pump components, along with an increased willingness by customers to pay extra for lower electricity consumption and environmental i...

Citation: Crouse JJ and Moustafa AA (2015) A commentary on: " A 12-year population-based study of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease ". A recent study by Forsaa et al. (2015) details the prospective assessments of a population-based Parkinson's disease (PD) cohort, investigating the long-term progression and associated risk factors of freezing of gait (FOG). Building on previous work exami...

Position Statement Wireless communication systems are widening ever futher from “connecting people” to “connecting technical constructions of a modern infrastructure”. This UBI (Ubiquitous Computing) environment consists of freezers, cars, housing apparatus, watches, remote health care and wellness monitoring devices etc., which are capable to wireless mutual and/or outside communication. This ...

Embryos and oocytes were first successfully cryopreserved more than 30 years ago, when Whittingham et al. and Wilmut separately described that mouse embryos could be frozen and stored at -196 degrees C and, a few years later, Parkening et al. reported the birth of live offspring resulting from in vitro fertilization (IVF) of cryopreserved oocytes. Since then, the use of cryopreservation techniq...