Cartilage injury is a central issue in orthopedics to which there is no known physiological treatment. Neuropeptides playa role in the proliferative and reparative processes of many tissue types, but little is known about ...

Studies on the hemolymph Juvenile Hormone Binding Protein (hJHBP) and Juvenile Hormone (JH) interaction have been considerably limited by the availability of pure hJHBP. An expression vector was created by cloning the ...

A distinguishing characteristic of prokaryotes was long thought to be the lack of a cytoskeleton similar to eukaryotes consisting of actin filaments, microtubules, and intermediate filaments. However, recent work has shown ...

Arabidopsis FLS2 is a leucine-rich repeat (LRR) transmernbrane receptor-kinase that recognizes bacterial flagellin and induces plant innate immune responses. Flg22 is a 22 amino acid peptide based on a sequence of flagellin ...

The aim of this study is to isolate and characterize mutant fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) which are defective in central processing, with the ultimate goals of! finding the genes necessary for this process to ...

Vitamin D (1,25 D3) is an important transcriptional regulator of many genes including our gene of interest, osteopontin. Osteopontin is a known regulator of bone calcification and mineralization and is involved in signaling ...

Maltose binding protein (MBP), a solubility-enhancing fusion protein, has demonstrated great success in the application of protein purification when fused to a protein of interest. It has already been engineered to include ...

With the onset of novel genomic sequence data, much effort is now being taken to discover the role of many genes and the corresponding proteins that remain unknown. One of the limiting steps in such efforts has been the ...

In January 2006, I worked with Community Based Integrated Nutrition (COBIN) to perform water quality testing and design & distribute health questionnaires to 40 households in the Lyantonde and Kiruhura districts of rural ...