Lactobacillus acidophilus MN-BM-F01 was originally isolated from a traditional fermented dairy product in China. The characteristics of this bacterium are its low post-acidification ability and high acid-producing rate. Here, we report the main genome features of L. acidophilus MN-BM-F01.

Researchers have hypothesized that autistics are missing core modules of the brain, critical neural tissue necessary for accomplishing various processes. In this article, we critically review the evidence supporting two such hypothesized deficits. We ask whether autistic brains lack a module for understanding the behavior of others (i.e., theory of mind) and whether they lack a module for proce...

Columbia River, in the Wind River valley. Studying forests is slow business. A tree can easily outlive a human, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest had outlived civilizations. The young researchers faced trees that were larger and older than any they had studied back east, in forests that were more ancient than anything described in their European texts. Yet the same scourges that had ravi...

The live measles virus (MV) vaccine strain AIK-C was attenuated from the wild-type strain Edmonston by plaque purification at 33 degrees C. Strain AIK-C grew well at 33 degrees C with a mixture of small-and medium-sized plaques in Vero cells, but did not grow well at 40 degrees C. To investigate fusion inducibility, expression plasmids for the fusion (F) and haemagglutinin (H) protein regions o...

Two alternative, fairly compact proofs are presented of the Pfaffian integration theorem that is surfaced in the recent studies of spectral properties of Ginibre’s Orthogonal Ensemble. The first proof is based on a concept of the Fredholm Pfaffian; the second proof is purely linear algebraic. PACS numbers: 02.10.Yn, 02.50.-r, 05.40.-a doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/40/36/F01

The underlying mechanism of Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn) in the carcinogenesis of colorectal cancer (CRC) is poorly understood. Here, we examined Fn abundance in CRC tissues, as well as β-catenin, TLR4 and PAK1 protein abundance in Fn positive and Fn negative CRCs. Furthermore, we isolated a strain of Fn (F01) from a CRC tissue and examined whether Fn (F01) infection of colon cancer cells activ...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is valued mainly for high content starch in its roots. Our understanding of mechanisms promoting high starch accumulation in the roots is, however, still very limited. Two field-grown cassava cultivars, Huanan 124(H124) with low root starch and Fuxuan 01(F01) with high root starch, were characterised comparatively at four main growth stages. Changes in key sugars in ...