Trying to track down Neil Risch is the stuff of legend. E-mails to him can bounce back with the comment line ‘‘overwhelmed by email.’’ Phone calls lead to voicemail, and faxes to a tepid response from his assistant. It’s not that he’s reclusive or off windsurfing, he’s simply a whirlwind of genetics ideas and activity. Indeed, when the University of California at San Francisco was looking for a...

Table 1. Average colony size of the six quality control strains: Anaerobic chambers and anaerobic jars are used to provide ancomparison of four methods for cultivating anaerobic bacteria. aerobic conditions required to cultivate anaerobic bacteria. All operations and manipulations of cultures can be carried out inside Setup: incubation the anaerobic chamber, thus avoiding any exposure to oxygen...

Cloud computing enables highly scalable services to be easily consumed over the Internet on an as-needed basis. A major feature of the cloud services is that users’ data are usually processed remotely in unknown machines that users do not own or operate. While enjoying the convenience brought by this new emerging technology, users’ fears of losing control of their own data (particularly, financ...

The Oxoid AnaeroGen system was compared with the BBL GasPak for the production of an anaerobic atmosphere and was evaluated for its ability to support the growth of 135 clinically significant anaerobic bacteria. An anaerobe chamber was used as the "gold standard" for supporting the growth of anaerobes. The AnaeroGen requires no catalyst, produces no hydrogen, requires no water, and reduces prep...

Three commercially available anaerobic cabinets are described and their performance in relation to one another and to a standard anaerobic jar technique are reported upon from a clinical laboratory.

chemical wastewater treatment is one of the attracting and common methods for wastewater treatment among the currently employed chemical unit processes. the use of coagulant-flocculant compound is one of the efficient methods for separating of paint and recovery of water. in this research, it was introduced and the effect of ph on removal of solid content from solution was studied experimentall...