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Microorganisms are contributing to a great degree nowadays in the field of biotechnology, with increasing demand as they provide a wide range of by-products that show promising economic importance and value in many specialized branches of…
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During autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), the body incorrectly recognizes and attacks “self ” tissues. Conventional clinical therapies for MS employ broad immunosuppression, which has provided important benefits for…
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Yvonne Perrie University of Strathclyde Glasgow, ScotlandIt is one the most exciting sports stories of all time—Leicester City Football Club won the English Premier League title. For those of you outside England, you may question this statement. But the background to this is rather…
Macromolecular prodrugs (MP), or polymer–drug conjugates, are successful tools of drug delivery investigated broadly toward optimization of pharmacokinetics of drugs.1 Specific advantage is gained when, for example, the polymer increases solubility of the drug or aids in localizing an enhanced…
I went to an art auction last night with the theme of moths. Why moths? A friend set up MothNet as a citizen science project to engage the public in science through discovering the beauty and importance of moths (twitter.com/mothNetNZ). I learned that most of New Zealand’s moths occur nowhere else…
