Web World of Biotechnology

Petroleum Eating Mushrooms

2011-12-03T18:48:00.000+05:30

In the fight to use nature against contamination, Dr Mohamed Hijri, professor of biological sciences at University of Montreal along with B. Franz Lang have successfully created petroleum eating mushrooms.

This began by planting willow plants in the spring into the contaminated soil. All the contaminants that reduce the soil quality will be absorbed by the plants and by the end of spring, these plants are burnt. After 2-3 cycles, the area will be fresh and clear void of any contaminants.

The area for this kind of research was provided by an oil company in Montreal. This area was very badly contaminated that nothing grew here. This land proved to be the perfect spot for Hijri to collect microorganisms that could ingest fuels.

Following these findings a project has been launched, named as Improving Bioremediation of Polluted Soils Through Environmental Genomics. This project has been based on the simple process of phytoremediation where plant matter is used for decontamination. With reference to the earlier researches conducted in this area, the team came to a conclusion that in phytoremediation it is not the plant that carried out the decontamination, but the combination of bacteria and mushrooms that processed the removal of contaminants. By finding the best plant-mushroom combination through this project, the team aims to create the best method of decontaminating even the worse areas of land.

In -Vitro Meat: From the Lab to the Home

2011-11-27T12:39:00.000+05:30

Imagine eating away tasty meat which is not produced from livestock, but in the lab.

This was a dream, long realized by Winston Churchill and now Scientist Mark Post is trying to make this vision a reality. From the stem cells of animal waste in slaughter houses, new whole meat can be produced. They grown in petri dishes to produce muscle like strips which are packed together along with a little of artificial fat to produce artificial meat.

The product has been tasted by a few people, but there are not much positive reviews regarding the taste. The scientists plans to add in a few more better tasting artificial fat and little of lab prepared blood and also increase the nutritional value of in-vitro meat.
The product is expected to be a little overpriced when it reaches the market, yet will be healthy and the price might come down with further experiments to meet the demands. This can do great good to the environment and that's the main reason why PETA has offered $1 million to the person who first launches it successfully in the market. Let us wait till August or Sepetember to see how welcome is it in the markets.

SEO Optimization

2011-01-09T16:15:00.000+05:30

Running a blog or a website is a task. The main aim is always to make a few pennies. Be it a shopping website, a company website or even a simple personal blog. There are also who do it just for the fun of it. But what ever be the reason, the site traffic is the main thing that which one looks into. Sometimes even if you have a great looking blog with good content, the site fails to attract traffic. Search Engine Optimisation is the key here.

There are many websites and SEO blog out there which can tell you what actually is meant by SEO . CqWen is a great website from which you can get a good deal of SEO tips. Its gives information on how to alter your existent websites as per SEO norms to gain more traffic and therefore a better business strategy. Read about Ethical SEO and Black hat SEO and how each works. The website is simple to see written to easy to understand language. Any beginner can read through the website and understand the basics and concept of SEO. The site give a brief article on the worlds best search engines. There are also other articles that may interet you like, how to write a good articles. etc.

Biofouling

2011-01-09T16:11:00.000+05:30

Biofouling is the undesirable accumualtion of microorganisms, plants, algae and animals on submerged structures, especially ships hulls. Biofouling is also found in membrane systems, such as membrane bioreactors and reverse osmosis spiral bound membranes. Biofouling is divided into Microfouling, a biofilm formation and bacterial adhesion and Macrofouling, an attachment of larger organisms, of which the main culprits are barnacles, mussels, polychaete worms, bryozoans and seaweed. marine biofouling is the undesirable growth of marine organisms on immersed artificial structures such as ship hulls, jetty pilings, navigational instruments, aquaculture net cages and seawater intake pipes.

Functions of body organs

2011-01-09T14:34:00.000+05:30

Our Body is a great mystery as to how a small system performs so many functions. Each of our body part has several roles to play. The sense organs are our sense, but they play many other roles in the proper functioning of the body without even we knowing. The ear for example, helps you to hear noises, but it also maintains the air circulation and pressure balance of the body. The vestibules and semicircular canals of the ear maintain the balance and positioning of your body. There are many other such purposes served by each body part.

The skin plays dual role. The first thought that comes to our mind when we think about the role of Skin is - to protect our body. Imagine if you had no skin in your body.. Eekks. .. I would be scary wouldn’t it. all the germs and dirt from the surrounding would have easily entered into your body. But there are also other protective functions played by the skin. The skin has a hydrolipid film which neutralizes substances on its surfaces and prevents it from attacking us. It also protects the body from sun’s radiation. The skin secretes sweat, sebum etc whereby drugs and other harmful substances are eliminated from the body.

It is very esential to know the various body functions played by each body part. One has to take proper care of ones body to keep ourself healthy. There are medicines for each and every disease but the increasing health care costs are becoming a major concern. better Prevention than a costly Cure.

Cells Contain RNA as well as DNA

2010-12-14T17:13:00.000+05:30

In the nineteenth century it had been discovered that cells have a second kind of nucleic acid - what we now call ribonucleic acid (RNA). Unlike DNA, which is located primarily in the nucleus, RNA is found in abundance in the cytoplasm as well as in the nucleus. Within the nucleus, RNA is concentrated in few dense granules (nucleoli) that are attached to chromosomes.

Both DNA and RNA resemble proteins in that they are constructed from many smaller building blocks linked end to end. However, nucleotides, the building blocks of nucleic acid, are more complex than any amino acid. Each nucleotide contains a phosphate group, a sugar moiety and either a purine or pyrimidine base. When nucleotides are linked together in large numbers, they are called polynucleotides.

Early on, the sugar component of RNA was known to be different from that DNA. Yet it was not until the 1920's that the work of Phoebus Levine of the Rockefeller Institute revealed that the sugar of DNA is deoxy ribose while the sugar in RNA is ribose. Two purines and two pyrimidines are found in both DNA and RNA. The two purines, adenine and guanine is used in both DNA and RNA; the pyrimidine cytosine is like wise found in DNA and RNA. However, the pyrimidine thymine is found only in DNA, while the structurally similar pyrimidine - Uracil appears in RNA.

In both DNA and RNA, the nucleotides are linked together to form very long poly nucleotide chains. The linkage consists of chemical bonds running from the phosphate group of one nucleotide to the deoxyribose (or ribose) group of the adjacent nucleotide. Each deoxyribose (ribose) residue contains several atoms to which phosphate groups might attach, and there was initially much difficulty in identifying the exact atoms that are bridged by the phosphate group.

Another question that went unanswered for a long time was how the four different ribonucleotides are ordered along a DNA (or RNA) molecule. No methods existed for even estimating the exact amounts of the four nucleotides within the DNA or RNA ; as late as the 1940s, the possibility could not be dismissed that DNA and RNA had regular repeating structures in which each base was repeated every four nucleotides along the poly nucleotide chain. More interesting, however, was the alternative possibility, that there were a very large number of different DNA and RNA molecules, each with its own specific irregular sequence of bases. If this were the way these molecules were constructed, DNA and RNA could have encoded in their varying base sequences the massive amount of information needed to specify the order of the very large number of amino acid sequences found in the proteins of the living world

How the herpes Simplex Virus Uses MicroRNA to Hide Out in Cells

2010-10-23T16:52:00.002+05:30

Researchers at the University of Pennysylvanis School of Medicine have discovered part of the reason why cold sores, caused by a herpes virus, come back again and again. The study points to a small RNA molecule, called a microRNA (miRNA) as the culprit that keeps the virus-infected cell alive. These findings could one day lead to a new way to fight the virus and offers the first target for intervention in the latent infection.

It was found that the herpes simples virus 1 produces the miRNA molecule. This miRNA is encoded bythe Latency-Associated Transcript gene (LAT) in the viral genome and works through a process called RNA interference to prevent normal cell death or apoptosis.

My Google Page Rank is 1 for this blog and I think I can Earn from it

2010-10-23T16:34:00.000+05:30

This is one blog that I have caressed very carefully. Last day when I had to sign up for a paid to blog website, this page rank 1 came to my notice. I will be updating my website again from time to time with some very good bitotechnolgy information, for my monetary needs and surely to be informative for you.

Well, to talk about getting paid to write a blog, this has increased the number of blogs on the web. Each of them having a diverse way of blogging. It has increased the amount of available information on the web. There are many online means of earning from you blog. There is certain criteria. Your blog should rank good in Alexa ranking. Should have a good google pank, atleast 1 or 2. Actually there are no offers open for blogs with zero page rank. MMM.... many of my blogs have zero rank. Lets see about what I can d to increase my page rank. I love to write certain topics and also to surf the web for some topics I love. As I will writing about all that in my blog. Hope my blog makes good and entertains the readers too.

There are also ghost writers, who are paid to write blogs. The blog owner earns from affliates and from paid to blog websites. The writer is paid to keep the blog going.

Introducing Winalite Anion Sanitary Napkin

2010-04-16T20:56:00.003+05:30

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New device to record fetal heart beat for high risk pregnancies

2009-01-31T16:42:00.000+05:30

Being pregnant is a great feeling. The tension lies in the risk factors affecting pregnancies these days. Risky pregnancies are a lot prevalent today. Pregnancy specialists have put down a lot of hard work to create a baby and mother foetal monitor. This monitor records baby and mother heart beats as different signals. The device works at a strech for 24 hours. It is portable and is worn around the mother's stomach which has 5 electodes attached around the mother's stomach. The data is stored in an USB. The device is a mobile phone sized one.

Usually an ultrasound monitor is used to check baby foetal heart rate. But this not a very reliable one, especially for high risk pregnancies. The device does not monitor the uterus, baby position or movements. It keeps track of baby activities round the clock.

Magnets World

2009-01-27T14:43:00.002+05:30

Magnets are used for a wide range of purposes. Magnets are fixed to fridge doors, promotional materials on car doors, leaflets,, invitations, business cards, information magnets and much more. When choosing magnets, we have to make sure that the magnets are of high quality or else they may loose their power very easily.
AMF Magnetics create the best quality magnets using German technology. They produce magnets of all colors. They also produce readymade magnet tabs for you to attch to your existant promotional materials. The magnets produced by them are flexible and of high quality. There are self adhesive magnetic rolls, isotropic rubber magnets etc. Promotional Fridge magnets are a great means of promtional items and is available at AMF Magnetics. They can be printed in unlimited colors. The magnets are then laminated with cellosheen giving a classy touch. The pricing is also reasonable.

Car door promotional magnetic display forms a moving billboard for your vehicle. This is the latest and one of the most effective means of advertising your business. They can be easily removed too. This makes things easier. You can stick on the promotional car door magnets when you want to and remove it when you need your privacy. As easy as that.

So are you ready to try your promotional magnet todayt!!

www.biofueldebate.com

2007-12-10T18:35:00.000+05:30

Biofueldebate.com is a biofuel forum. Interested may join as free members and take active participation in the forum discussions. The members can exchange ideas, give advice, ask questions and make the forum on bio fuels interesting.

The forum has general discussions on biofuel basics, ethanol, bio diesel, impact of bio fuel and bio fuel vs. fossil fuel discussions. The site also hosts discussions on the latest and greatest bio fuel technologies and advancements made in this field.

The application and advancement of bio fuel into automotives, home applications, and business applications, various industrial applications, etc are discussed in this forum.

The Biodiesel thread discusses different new methods used to produce bio diesel. Both the positive and negative effects of bio fuels are discussed in the forum.

Even people who are interested in bio fuel topics can join the forum and ask questions to the experienced bio fuel experts at the forum. This will act as a great help for students as they can find answers to all their queries related to bio fuels.

The also has discussions on other alternative energy sources other than bio fuels like hydrogen fuel cells, wind farms, geothermal power and nuclear power.

The forum also gives information on how to make one’s own bio fuels, latest bio fuel news and advancements in bio fuel technology and much more information on bio fuels.

Scientists process skin tissue to mimic embryonic stem cells

2007-11-28T13:56:00.000+05:30

Dolly’s Creator Shuns the Technique Used to Create her

2007-11-18T20:17:00.000+05:30

Ian Wilmut, the scientist who discovered the cloning technique has abandoned it. Therapeutic cloning was a major break through in the field of biotechnology.

He proclaimed to have abandoned the technique after a rival method was discovered in Japan. Prof Shinya Yamanka of Kyoto University suggested a new way to create human embryo cells from skin tissues. This process does not require human eggs. This will be socially accepted as it does not require creating and destroying cloned embryos.

Ian Wilmut has been inspired by this technique and has proclaimed that he wont pursue his license to clone human embryo cells. He says that the new technique has put forward a new future for stem cell research than his technique.

The reason for the fowl breath of dinosaurs

2007-11-14T19:59:00.000+05:30

The mechanism by which Dinosaurs may have breathed have been found by the biologists and paleontologists at the University of Manchester.

It has been discovered that theropod dinosaurs like Velociraptor has respiratory systems as in present day diving birds. Dinosaurs had many similarities to birds and this similarity has been found to be present in the respiratory system as air sac respiratory system.

Studies were conducted on the fossil remains of Maniraptoran dinosaurs and Achaeopteryx. They were found to possess breathing structures called as uncinate processes as in birds. The dinosaurs which were examined were found to have long uncinate processes as in diving birds.

This also proves that dinosaurs were highly active animals.

Reduce sugar for a healthy sex life

2007-11-12T19:17:00.000+05:30

The Child and Family Research Institute, West Canada has reported that too much of fructose and glucose suppresses the activity of the genes that control the release of sex steroids. The study was conducted in mice and human cell cultures.

This has spread advices to the public to consume complex carbohydrates and to reduce sugar consumption.

Glucose and fructose metabolism takes place in the liver and the excess sugar is converted to lipid. It has been discovered that excess lipid production shut down a gene called SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin). This gene plays a major role in controlling the release of testosterone and estrogen. Less of SHBG protein, consecutively the testosterone and estrogen release will also decrease. This leads to increased risk of acne, infertility, polycystic ovaries and uterine cancer.

Pumice as a green house option

2007-11-04T19:37:00.000+05:30

Artificial Reef In Red Sea

2007-10-16T18:40:00.001+05:30

'See through' frogs bred

2007-10-03T18:57:00.000+05:30

Scientists have bred 'translucent frogs' making it possible to see their internal organs.

Check your calorie content

2007-09-18T15:40:00.001+05:30

Overweight and obesity are the major problems that the world is facing today. The reason for this is careless eating habits. Many awareness programs are being carried out to reach this warning to people. Diet control is advised for all people.

Myfitnesspal.com is one site where you can access calorie counter for free. The counter helps to calculate the calories in taken and what changes should be made to better the diet. Visitors can subscribe to the free diet journal. The diet journal keeps you updated of the newest foods and findings in the diet world.

The site also has a calorie chart which gives information on the calorie content of all food items.

Check your calorie content

2007-09-18T15:40:00.000+05:30

Genetic variation linked to colon cancer

2007-09-17T13:23:00.000+05:30

Scientists from around teh world ahve found a new genetic marker for colon cancer, which they hope will help better identify those people who are at higher risk of the disease.

Product Reviews

2007-09-17T12:58:00.000+05:30

Before using a product we all prefer to try a test sample of the product or try to get a review from some one who has used the product. This also has been made much easier by online websites which provide extensive review of the various products available in the market now. The reviews are mostly provided by people who have used the product. But you have to make sure that the reviews are genuine, so it is advised to rely on the reviews in genuine sites.

Trustsource.org is one such site which provides genuine reviews of products. The site evaluates the reviews and checks if it is genuine. The results are published after a long round of processing and the products are ranked after that according to the genuine reviews provided by the customers.

The site has a hair loss products review, and the visitors have ranked Provillus to be the best hair loss cure. Procerin gives way for the formation of new hair. It acts as nutritional supplement and nourishes the dead and damaged follicles to life.

Procerin has been ranked second. Procerin has to be found to be effective against hair loss in men caused by androgenetic alopecia.

Spider's getting ready to create a massive web

2007-09-16T12:26:00.000+05:30

Alzheimer's Memory Loss Mechanism Found

2007-09-11T20:49:00.000+05:30

British regulators say yes to human-animal embryo research

2007-09-10T19:00:00.000+05:30

British regulators have agreed in principle to allow human-animal embroyos to be created and used for research, the BBC reports.The decision follows months of consultation.

Male Mouse with two X chromosomes created

2007-08-22T17:32:00.000+05:30

US wants to create implantable biochip

2007-07-31T10:47:00.000+05:30

Photomacrography

2006-11-26T14:29:00.000+05:30

Photomacrography shows extreme closeups of tiny objects that the eyes would otherwise struggle to see.

The site http://www.photomacrography2.net displays surprising images in which beauty jumps out and grabs the viewer.

Check out the site and see how beautiful beetles and crab spiders can be. The photomacrpgraphers are determined to change the way we look at the world.

Eatabugaday

2006-11-01T02:44:00.000+05:30

Pitcher Plant

Sundew

Venus Fly Trap

Bladderwort

Butterwort

Cobra Plant

Humans have a love/hate relationship with insects. We adore butterflies. But other athan entomologists, no one likes ants, houseflies or mosquitoes. We use chemicals to poison the insectsand Uv lights and pheromons to make them trapped in high voltage screens.

Even many plants have mixed feelings for chitinous creatures. many plants depend winged creatures for pollination while some plants see insects as dinner.

The Carnivorous Plants web site tracks all information on the 'meat eating' plants.

If you thought that Venus Fly Trap was the only carnivorous plant then jump in here and discover the wide world of green meat eaters. You are in for a surprise.

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