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Cloning, Biochemical Properties, and Distribution of Mycobacterial Haloalkane Dehalogenases
16.5.2006 | Press monitoring
Haloalkane dehalogenases are enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of the carbon-halogen bond by a hydrolytic mechanism. Genomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis contain at least two open reading frames coding for the polypeptides showing a high sequence similarity with biochemically characterized haloalkane dehalogenases. We describe here...
Detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Retail Cheeses from Greece and the Czech Republic
16.5.2006 | Press monitoring
We investigated the presence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in retail cheeses from Greece and the Czech Republic. We found that 31.7% and 3.6% of our samples reacted positive by PCR and culture, respectively. Consumption of these cheeses is likely to result in human exposure to M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis, albeit at a low...
Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis Cultured from Locally and Commercially Pasteurized Cow's Milk in the Czech Republic
15.5.2006 | Press monitoring
Between November 2002 and April 2003, 244 bottles and cartons of commercially pasteurized cow's milk were obtained at random from retail outlets throughout the Czech Republic.
Age-specific prevalence, transmission and phylogeny of TT virus in the Czech Republic
15.5.2006 | Press monitoring
TT virus is prevalent worldwide, but its prevalence and genotype distribution in Central and East-Europe has not been determined. The high prevalence of TTV in multiply-transfused patients points to the importance of a parenteral mode of transmission, but since more than half of the general population is infected other possible routes of...
Distribution of Serogroups and Genotypes among Disease-Associated and Carried Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from the Czech Republic, Greece, and Norway
15.5.2006 | Press monitoring
The distribution of serogroups and multilocus sequence types (STs) in collections of disease-associated and carried meningococci from the period 1991 to 2000 in three European countries (the Czech Republic, Greece, and Norway) was investigated.
Changes in extracellular space size and geometry in APP23 transgenic mice: A model of Alzheimer's disease
15.5.2006 | Press monitoring
Diffusion parameters of the extracellular space (ECS) are changed in many brain pathologies, disturbing synaptic as well as extrasynaptic “volume” transmission, which is based on the diffusion of neuroactive substances in the ECS.
European Course on Biotechnology Ethics - 29 June - 6 July, in Brno, The Czech Republic
15.5.2006 | Press monitoring
The European Course on Biotechnology Ethics is designed to provide, through a case-based approach, an interdisciplinary forum of discussion covering the themes of ethical theory and practice, European law on biotechnology and New Member States problems, risk and risk perception, ethical factors in new research, technological practice, policy and...
Enzymes and Ethanol
12.5.2006 | Press monitoring
Mark Emalfarb, Founder and CEO of Dyadic International, thinks his company can transform release the economy from its dependence on oil using technology that enables us to use carbohydrates as a fuel.
New drug could reduce tissue damage after heart attack
12.5.2006 | Press monitoring
CRP is normally present at trace levels in the blood but its concentration increases sharply in almost all diseases including trauma, infection, strokes and chronic illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease. CRP levels also rise dramatically after a heart attack. Patients with the greatest and most persistent increases in CRP...
New cancer drug to fight bird flu?
11.5.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers at Erimos Pharmaceuticals and North Carolina State University (NCSU) now believe they have stumbled on a possible new treatment for the deadly virus during research on Erimos's lead drug compound, EM-1421, for malignant tumours.Upon realising that the systems that bird flu require are common with the systems that they have already been...
