BACKGROUND Transplanting pancreatic islets into recipients must be safe and effective to treat Type 1 diabetes. Islet quality and quantity are important, however, the final product must also be free from microbial contamination and low endotoxin levels. METHODS This study explored a method to eliminate contamination in manufacturing islets for transplantation. A simple (single antibiotic, n=1...

BACKGROUND The cleaning stage of the instrument decontamination process has come under increased scrutiny due to the increasing complexity of surgical instruments and the adverse affects of residual protein contamination on surgical instruments. Instruments used in the podiatry field have a complex surface topography and are exposed to a wide range of biological contamination. Currently, podiat...

Biological evidence with forensic interest may be found in several cases of assault, being particularly relevant if sexually related. Sexual assault cases are characterized by low rates of disclosure, reporting, prosecution, and conviction. Biological evidence is sometimes the only way to prove the occurrence of sexual contact and to identify the perpetrator. The major focus of this review is t...

Trimming procedures are an important part of the sequence analysis pipeline in an EST Sequencing Project. In general, trimming is done in several phases, each one detecting and removing some kind of undesirable artifact, such as low quality sequence, vectors or adapters sequence, and contamination. However, this strategy often results in a phase being unable to recognize its target because part...

background and aims: adventitious agents, especially viral agents are among the most important concerns in viral vaccines. viral contamination of biological products may arise from the original source of the reagents such as, serum, trypsin, animal or human derived media components or cell culture and working seed or cross contamination of vaccine during production. in this study, adventitious ...

In recent years, quality assurance (QA) and good manufacturing practice (GMP) have become increasingly important in the pharmaceutical industry. They are of particular importance in the manufacture of veterinary vaccines since such products have the following specific characteristics: The active ingredients are almost always produced by the manufacturer (and not as is generally the case by anot...

Background: The quality of drinking water is directly related to community health. Therefore, improving the reflects positively on health situation in general. studies that deal with city Baghdad terms chemical or microbial content are very scanty.
 Objective: current review highlights most important and research articles concern water, both bottled tap biological contamination chemophysic...