Silica as biologically transmutated source for bacterial growth similar to carbon 

Residue of horse serum purification as a nitrogen source for growth of microorganisms, l-Clostridia

Pomegranate Fruit as a Rich Source of Biologically Active Compounds

Pomegranate is a widely used plant having medicinal properties. In this review, we have mainly focused on the already published data from our laboratory pertaining to the effect of methanol extract of pericarp of pomegranate (PME) and have compared it with other relevant literatures on Punica. Earlier, we had shown its antiproliferative effect using human breast (MCF-7, MDA MB-231), and endomet...

Metallization of biologically inspired silica nanotubes

a r t i c l e i n f o The desire and need for various types of nanostructures have been met with challenges of feasibility, reproducibility, and long fabrication time. To work towards improved bottom-up methods of nano-fabrication, we use bacterial flagella as bio-templates for fabricating silica-mineralized nanotubes, which are ideal for the formation of metal nanoparticles or metal oxide nano...

Source Forager: A Search Engine for Similar Source Code

Developers spend a significant amount of time searching for code—e.g., to understand how to complete, correct, or adapt their own code for a new context. Unfortunately, the state of the art in code search has not evolved much beyond text search over tokenized source. Code has much richer structure and semantics than normal text, and this property can be exploited to specialize the code-search p...

Indoor-biofilter growth and exposure to airborne chemicals drive similar changes in plant root bacterial communities.

Due to the long durations spent inside by many humans, indoor air quality has become a growing concern. Biofiltration has emerged as a potential mechanism to clean indoor air of harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are typically found at concentrations higher indoors than outdoors. Root-associated microbes are thought to drive the functioning of plant-based biofilters, or biowalls, ...