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Childhood obesity has become a disturbing national epidemic and has grown considerably in the past two decades. The percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight has more than doubled since the early 1970s. Overweight children are mu...

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Heart failure is a major health problem in the United States, affecting about 4.6 million Americans. About 550,000 new cases of heart failure occur each year. It is the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than 65. Recent research is providing earl...

The goal of vaccine researchers has been induction of a specific and active immune response, which offers patients cancer therapy with limited toxicity and long-standing protection. There have been great strides made toward this goal, as evidenced by the recent FDA appr...

Random mutagenesis is an incredibly powerful tool for altering the properties of enzymes. Imagine, for example, you were studying a G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) and wanted to create a temperature-sensitive version of the receptor or one that was activated by a different ligand than the wild-...

Amyloidosis is not cancer, but it is an equally serious and potentially life-threatening condition. Amyloidosis may also be linked with certain blood cancers. The basis of the disease is an abnormal protein called amyloid that builds up in tissues or organs. When there are ...

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Environmental studies provide an approach towards understanding the environment of our planet and the impact of human life upon the environment. Thus environment is actually global in nature, it is a multidisciplinary subject including physics, geology, geography, his...

Evolution is an important idea in the concept of biology, there is a saying that things only appear sensible in chemistry in the perspective of evolution. Most researchers believe that life first appeared on World around 3.8 million decades ago. The earliest fossilized bone...

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An introduction to elements of biology mainly used in bioinformatics - cells, molecules, genes and functional genomics. It is suitable for those with an interest in science and technology who do not have a strong scientific knowledge. We have attempted to reduce the...

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Pharmaceutical proteins produced via fermentation in transgenic microbes or mammalian cell culture systems provide economical systems for production of therapeutic proteins. These include antibodies, vaccines, blood proteins, etc. Pharmaceutical proteins produ...

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Although tornadoes occur in many areas of the world, they are found most regularly in the United States. In a typical year, 1,200 tornadoes cause 70 deaths and 1,500 injuries nationwide. The normal storm moves Southwest to Northeast, but tornadoes have been known to m...