Biochemical Changes in Alcoholism

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Predicting Depression Levels Using Social Media Posts

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What is the role of asparagine in cancer?

Asparaginase is useful in the treatment of leukemia as it degrades asparagine. What role does asparagine play in the proliferation of cancer cells?

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Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Aquaculture and Fisheries sector.

Hello all, With all the lockdown regulations, sales and trade may not be as it was before, goods and services are impacted; fish and fish products and services are not left out. Would you...

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The Role of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System in the Severity of COVID-19 in Diabetic/Hypertensive Patients

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The 'Biochemistry' of permed hair

Is there more to a permed hair than the alteration of the disulphide bonds between adjacent strands of protein in hair?

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'Biotechnology'- A textbook authored by V. Satyanarayana

Please who can help with copy of this textbook in PDF?

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Cancer cells and metastatic phenotype

Why do cancer cells use distinct transcriptomic and proteomic programs to reach the same metastatic phenotype?

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Biotechnology: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Downsides?

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can I treat waste water containing solvents and alcohol with electrocoagulation?

there are solvents and alcohol in the waste water of a factory that produces disinfectants. Increasing this waste water requires very serious operations. Can I treat this waste water with...

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How do you prepare a porous crosslinked Polyvinyl alcohol and Glutaraldehyde membrane or film?

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Is there a faster way of removing and collecting the carbon nanotubes on the surface of the stainless steel 304 plates other than sonification?

The usual way of properly removing and collecting carbon nanotubes (CNT) is to sonicate the stainless steel plates coated with CNT under isopropyl alcohol (IPA) solution, remove the plates after...

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I accidentally poked my finger with very thiny tweezers after I used them to remove a slide from A549 cell culture??

I accidentally poked my finger with very thiny tweezers after I used them to remove a slide from A549 cell culture. I got poked after sprayed them with 70 % alcohol and dried them right away. Is...

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I would like to know any methods and steps could be use to treat waste containing mixture of alcohol solvent, oils and glycerol?

I'm not sure the steps to treat wastewater containing mixture of alcohol solvent, oils and glycerol. do we neet to separate before further treatment.

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Can alcohol feeding treat respiratory infections in birds?

In discussion with some farmers and colleagues, I came to know that poultry birds are fed alcohols to enhance their production/performance and treat the respiratory infecions. Is there any...

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How many times should I inject the drug before I take samples for RNA-Sequencing?

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Lactophenol Cotton Blue with benzyl alcohol?

In the preparation of a Lactophenol Cotton Blue, can phenol be substituted by benzul alcohol? (Question for some students in a laboratory lacking some reagents.)

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Drying of PVA dissolved in NMP?

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For better dispersion and intercalation of polyvinyl alcohol/bentonite which are the suitable surfactants or compatibilizers are mostly used??

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