Attempts to alleviate diabetes mellitus by diet were first made by the Egyptians as early as 3500 BC. In India, about 2500 years ago, Susruta and Charaka had recognized the importance of dietary regulation in the treatment of diabetes and many of the principles suggested by these eminent physicians hold good even today.1 In the 20th Century, prior to discovery of insulin, the treatment of diabe...

MIC and disk diffusion quality control (QC) ranges were established for two new pleuromutilin antimicrobials (BC-3205 and BC-3781) in an eight-laboratory study performed according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute M23-A3 guidelines. Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 and 25923, Streptococcus pneumoniae ATCC 49619, and Haemophilus influenzae ATCC 4927 strains were evaluated. The propo...

Abstract Two millets, Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica , were domesticated in northern China, around 6000 BC. Although its oldest evidence is Asia, possible independent domestication of these species the Caucasus has often been proposed. To verify this hypothesis, a multiproxy research program (Orimil) was designed to detect first millet region. It included critical review occurrence archa...

Neolithic pile dwelling sites are known particularly well North of the Alps, with a boom starting from ca. 4300 cal BC. These famous for excellent preservation conditions organic material (wooden tools, textiles, fruit remains and foodstuffs have been preserved in many them), but their origin is still unclear. In Europe, only three reliably-dated settlements this type documented Early Neolithic...

Andrew Sherratt included horseback riding and chariotry in his conception of the Secondary Products Revolution, but his emphasis on the role of horses in warfare and on a Near Eastern influence in the earliest episode of horse domestication is viewed here as as an important shortcoming in his understanding of the process of horse domestication. Current evidence indicates that horses were domest...

CrystEngComm COMMUNICATION Bettina V. Lotsch et al. Optical gap in herringbone and π-stacked crystals of [1]benzothieno[3,2-b] benzothiophene and its brominated derivative

Definition: Genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology and biotechnology – the buzz words you may have heard often on radio or TV, or read about in featured articles in newspapers or popular magazines. It is a set of techniques that are used to achieve one or more of three goals: to reveal the complex processes of how genes are inherited and expressed, to provide better understanding and e...