Radioligand methods are now well established for measurement of serum vitamin B12 and folate. Often these two assays are requested together. Thus a way of doing them simultaneously would save considerable time and expense. The objectives of this study were to determine the precision of a simultaneous assay and to compare it with previously established assays for these vitamins.

Many microalgae acquire vitamin B12 from marine prokaryotes. A new study demonstrates that vitamin B12 is synthesized by planktonic cyanobacteria as pseudocobalamin, a form not bioactive in microalgae. However, some microalgae can remodel pseudocobalamin to the active cobalamin form, adding complexity to our assessment of active vitamin B12 in the environment.

Abstract Traditional refrigeration technologies based on compression cycles of greenhouse gases pose serious threats to the environment and cannot be downscaled electronic device dimensions. Solid-state cooling exploits thermal response caloric materials changes in applied external fields (i.e., magnetic, electric and/or mechanical stress) represents a promising alternative current methods. How...