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There should be understandable correlation between structural biology and physiological function, e.g.,...
04 April 2016 4,530 3 View
Most online journals ask for payment for publishing research/review articles, under the pretext that no one is making money in the process. Is it really so.
03 March 2016 8,653 5 View
Gram negative microbes signal their environment via outer membrane vesicles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_outer_membrane_vesicles
06 June 2014 994 0 View
Is ultrastructure, seeing smaller than light microscopy http://pediaview.com/openpedia/Ultrastructure ?
05 May 2014 9,533 2 View
Should scientists feel social responsibility in choosing research projects.
05 May 2014 2,216 2 View
Antibiotics are given to safe guard against secondary bacterial infections due to reduced immunity during viral infections.
04 April 2014 5,358 5 View
How to get the best health results from probiotics.
03 March 2014 5,679 2 View
Is there any doubt or bais against citing single-authors research papers?
02 February 2014 4,069 2 View
Can a question be called 'good' if it is difficult to answer, or else, it generates interesting discussion?
02 February 2014 5,537 13 View
Most mark in bioscience research has been made by experimental and instrument-based research. Was DNA double helix breakthrough more theoretical?
02 February 2014 5,915 0 View
Protein and biochemical secretions from small microbes must not go waste. Is this more efficient by orchestrated secretion of different biochemicals or quantized secretion via outer membrane...
01 January 2014 2,335 0 View
Neem is regarded as medical dispensary. It has special anti-diabetic potential @...
11 November 2013 6,649 3 View
Thylakoid lamellae are unique phospolipid-defficient bilayers with a lot of light-absorbing chlorophyll...
10 October 2013 4,002 2 View
Most readers pay attention and read a research paper when its 'Title" generates interest. However, exact statement of the main finding as 'Title' educates the 'in-field' researcher.
10 October 2013 4,302 16 View
Without strictly following exact methodology and controls, research results obtained can be misleading.
10 October 2013 3,406 0 View
The current trend is to publish research work in e-journals, which may not have hard paper versions in conventional libraries of the world. How safe is this virtual archiving for future generations?
10 October 2013 3,574 2 View
Prokaryotes lack a conventional cytoplasm. However, the outer membrane-bounded periplasm of gram negative microbes allows them to execute eukaryote-like vesicular exocytosis e. g....
10 October 2013 5,786 1 View
Are scientific meetings merely aimed at thrashing out hot topics of research for future projects?
10 October 2013 8,574 8 View
Single mitochondria normally are scattered in cell cytoplasm. However, in retinal rods and cones they assemble into ellipsoids or into cylinderical sheets in sperm tail. What are physiological...
10 October 2013 3,277 3 View
This year's Nobel prize has gone for discovery of membrane vesicle trafficking of cellular materials like hormones, neurotransmitters, secretory vesicles - pinched off from Golgi body in animal...
10 October 2013 713 5 View
Print media has been virtually overtaken by instantaneous dissemination via internet. Advertisements are providing research-work with free access to scientific publications. And yet, many high...
09 September 2013 6,710 3 View
All gram negative microbes have a unique signature molecule - lipopolysaccharide - abundant in the outer leaflet of their outer membrane. What advantage does it provide to the organisms?
09 September 2013 5,760 2 View
Dogmatic research is more confirmatory - though essential - can stagnate the search.
09 September 2013 1,372 1 View
Review of literature is an important part of both 'Introduction' and 'Discussion' in a research publication.
09 September 2013 686 7 View
English has accepted words/terms from almost all languages of the world. Scientific discoveries published in languages other than English are not globally read and appreciated.
09 September 2013 5,605 9 View
Software used in search engines as well by impact factor rating bodies tends to ignore citations in journals where full titles of quoted published articles are not availabale in 'References'...
09 September 2013 1,376 5 View
Exocytosis/extrusion of cellular materials via blebbing of membranes is drawing increasing attention as transport, communications and gene-transfer in cell biology of pro- and eukaryotes.
09 September 2013 10,070 2 View
Language plays a major role in readership of scientific and research articles. Translation and editorial help is limited. Many good workers remain un-noticed because of defficiency in English....
08 August 2013 2,148 2 View
Closed institutes without students have a different work-environment than advanced teaching universities. How do they compare in impact of their respective research contributions?
08 August 2013 9,207 3 View
ResearchGate is a useful social-scientific networking site for researchers. Do more members use it on official working days than holidays?
08 August 2013 7,601 0 View
Biological membranes contain proteins and lipids 50:50 by weight.
08 August 2013 980 0 View
Environmental temperatures may soar above 50 deg C in tropics. What effect can it have on cells, body and life of animals and plants?
08 August 2013 2,045 1 View
White blood corpuscles are body defense cells, how many ways can they do this job or do they do something else too?
08 August 2013 1,204 13 View
All gram negative microbes have a characteristic lipopolysaccharide-rich outer membrane covering. Is it biophysically better than the lipid-bilayer structure common to all other cell membranes?
08 August 2013 5,194 0 View
Salmonella infects man, animals, birds and even plants.
08 August 2013 434 3 View
Blebs of gram negative microbes have been implicated as multiple store houses of bacterial secretions manufactured by secretion-active microbes to deal with their changing micro-environment.
07 July 2013 7,618 2 View
Cultured microbes tend to lose their toxin production over time.
07 July 2013 5,872 4 View
Chronic irritants in body from chemical, biological and physical sources may initiate a gene action in cornered cells to multiply beyond control and produce cancer.
06 June 2013 808 6 View
Host defence mechanisms are to stop pathogens to infect and spread disease, but can that be exploited by the invading pathogens?
06 June 2013 8,379 2 View
Periplasm may be an advantage to gram-negative microbes over gram-positive ones.
06 June 2013 1,184 0 View
Lining cells and white cells may show interactive structural and chemical changes and so may the microbial pathogen.
06 June 2013 7,766 0 View
Distinct outer membrane of gram-negative microbes provides a specialized compartmentalization of periplasm into eukaryotic-like structures like periplasmic organelles/invasosomes.
06 June 2013 8,436 0 View
Microbe-microbe, microbe-host/target cell signalling may not just be confined to free signal molecules flow with dilution on the way.
06 June 2013 871 1 View
Impact factors of journals speak of journals and not of scientists specifically. See http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6134/787.full
05 May 2013 5,356 2 View
Hexagonal H-II inverted cylindrical phase of lipids does not obviously fit with fluid mosaic lipid bilayer structure of biological membranes; yet MGDG in thylakoid membranes dominates - how?
05 May 2013 3,460 2 View
Many pathogens may induce apoptosis in host cells for producing disease.
05 May 2013 7,833 1 View
Type III secretion for host cell intoxication necessitates direct contact between host and gram-negative pathogen - why?
05 May 2013 8,897 1 View
Do membranaous inclusions in cytoplasm or destruction of cytoplasmic membranes indicate necrosis or apoptosis?
05 May 2013 7,277 1 View
Blebs of gram negative organisms are physiological expansions/extensions of periplasm before releasing outer membrane vesicles.
05 May 2013 9,545 3 View
Plant photosynthetic thylakoid membranes are mainly galactolipid and only 10% phospholipids and yet bilayers.
04 April 2013 1,612 3 View
Neem is age-old penacea for most problems in India and Asia and now in Africa, China and USA.
03 March 2013 1,528 3 View
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02 February 2013 3,844 8 View
Biology
12 December 2012 9,179 4 View
Man struggles against even microbes.
09 September 2012 3,911 3 View
The Heizenberg's uncertainty principle may be explained in that the observer is invariably the part of the same ever-changing universe 'he/she' is observing, then how can he/she find the precise...
01 January 1970 1,069 2 View
Scientific information becomes of some value if it is passed on to the end users and adopted by the society, by and large.
01 January 1970 5,254 0 View
Consciousness is normally associated with life, nerves, etc.
01 January 1970 2,835 4 View
Ancient dates are normally calculated on the basis of stars and constellations mentioned in the scriptures.
01 January 1970 5,673 0 View
Deep thought is the root of Philosophy. It created knowledge in multiple fields. Science is one of these fields.
01 January 1970 3,433 1 View
We talk of system in science, arts and business. How do define and what do we mean by this?
01 January 1970 9,551 0 View
We receive numerous e-mails, both from known and unknown sources. It takes time and energy to go through them. That is OK. However, sometimes computer virus can enter un-invited and crash the...
01 January 1970 7,187 4 View
Many theories, predictions and practices exist on the basis of vacuum. Is it just a concept or reality?
01 January 1970 5,090 1 View
