Analysis of minimal residual disease (MRD) can predict outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We applied a chemiluminescent methodology in 20 children with ALL. We detected MRD at different time-points throughout the follow-up of our patients, concluding that chemilumi-nescent detection of MRD is a reliable, safe and sensitive method. Recent prospective studies clearly demonst...

The remote sensing of grass quality as determined by nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium and magnesium concentration is critical for a better understanding of wildlife and livestock feeding patterns. Although remote sensing techniques have been proven useful to assess the concentration of foliar biochemicals under controlled laboratory conditions, more investigation is required to assess ...

Microbial metabolism provides at mechanism for the conversion of substrates into useful biochemicals. Utilization of microbes in industrial processes requires a modification of their natural metabolism in order to increase the efficiency of the desired conversion. Redirection of metabolic fluxes forms the basis of the newly defined field of metabolic engineering. In this study we use a flux bal...

Abstract Supercritical methanol is a tool for decomposing woody biomass and dissolving the products under relatively mild conditions. Thus, use of supercritical methanol—in combination with catalytic hydrogenolysis—in industrial production biochemicals has been widely studied. However, contribution specific properties to wood decomposition remains unclear. In this study, effect pressure on Japa...

Knowledge of the biochemical composition of the canopy is crucial to describing, understanding and predicting ecosystem functioning (Peterson et al., 1988; Curran et al., 1990; Matson et al., 1994). This is because major ecological processes that involve the exchange of matter and energy, e.g. photosynthesis, evapotranspiration, respiration and decomposition, are related to foliar biochemistry ...

Sustainable, economically feasible, and green resources for energy chemical products have people’s attention due to global demand environmental issues. Last several decades, diverse lignocellulosic biomass has been studied the production of biofuels biochemicals. Industrial hemp great market potential with its versatile applications. With increase hemp-related markets seed, oil, fiber, importan...

Biological production of organic acids from conversion of biomass derivatives has received increased attention among scientists and engineers and in business because of the attractive properties such as renewability, sustainability, degradability, and versatility. The aim of the present review is to summarize recent research and development of short chain fatty acids production by anaerobic fer...

Redox chemistry is central to life on Earth. It is well known that life uses redox chemistry to capture energy from environmental chemical energy gradients. Here, we propose that a second use of redox chemistry, related to building biomass from environmental carbon, is equally important to life. We apply a method based on chemical structure to evaluate the redox range of different groups of ter...