One of the major complications associated with implantation biomedical devices regardless their function is biomaterial-associated infection. Infections are generally initiated by opportunistic bacterial colonization and biofilm development on surface implanted biomaterials, rendering infection impervious to host defenses antimicrobials. Moreover, around soft tissues also has a significant role...

A major challenge of designing a bioregenerative life support system for Mars is the reduction of the mass, volume, power, thermal and crew-time requirements. Structural mass of the greenhouse could be saved by operating the greenhouse at low atmospheric pressure. This paper investigates the feasibility of this concept. The method of equivalent system mass is used to compare greenhouses operate...

Gene delivery vectors based on retroviral or lentiviral particles are considered powerful tools for biomedicine and biotechnology applications. Such vectors require modification at the genomic level in the form of rearrangements to allow introduction of desired genes and regulatory elements (genotypic modification) as well as engineering of the physical virus particle (phenotypic modification) ...