The extent to which non-host-associated bacterial communities exhibit small-scale biogeographic patterns in their distribution remains unclear. Our investigation of biogeography in bacterial community ...

Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely used to treat a range of infections, including pneumonia and skin ...

Blood test tubes with multi-colored lids standing on medical documents. Do serum sclerostin levels play a role in COPD? Researchers analyzed relationships between blood SOST and body composition, bone ...

Plastoglobuli have been isolated and purified from chloroplasts of beech and spinach leaves and from broom flower chromoplasts by a repeated floating-gradient technique. The main components in ...

Plants prevent dehydration by coating their aerial, primary organs with waxes. Wax compositions frequently differ between species, organs, and developmental stages, probably to balance limiting ...

Ajinomoto has been granted a patent for compositions containing specific ratios of amino acids, including leucine and phenylalanine, which have been found to improve cognitive function, reduce anxiety ...