the faunistic survey of oribatid mites, between 2008 and 2010, on the outskirts of the city of shiraz led to the discovery of the species banksinoma exobothridialis bayartogtokh of the family thyrisomidae. both the species and the family are new to the iranian fauna.

the discovery of rna interference (rnai) in recent years has revolutionized biological and medical research. rnai is the sequence-specific gene silencing triggered by double-stranded rna (dsrna). until a couple of years ago only biologists working with caenorhabditis elegans and plants could use rnai technology to gain insight into gene function……

discovery of 13c nmr and its application in the biosynthetic pathways prompted the synthesis of several 13c labelled precursors. to investigate the metabolism of phenyllactic acid in the solanaceae family, the double labelled acid was synthesized from barium carbonate (13c) and sodium syanide (13c)