The pharmaceutical industry can see a significant boost by the development of in vitro models with better predictive potentials for drug toxicity screening. A biologically relevant in vitro model with tunable modalities can impact and shift the current drug toxicity screening paradigm. Drug testing can...
During winemaking, in a process called malolactic fermentation (MLF), the malic acid which has a taste sharp and is often present in grapes, converts to lactic acid which has a softer taste. Other than deacidifying the wine, the aromatic and smooth taste of red wines...
Giant Unilamellar lipid Vesicles (GUVs) are lipid spherical chambers surrounded by a lipid bilayer with a size range of 1-200 micron. They are often used in artificial cells as biological membranes to recapitulate the cell wall. GUVs have been made by a wide variety of...
As the 2-3 minutes required for reading this passage is finished, 4 new deaths have happened in the world due to bacterial infection. Bacterial infection is a serious threat to human health with an estimated growth of 10 million annual deaths by 2050. On the...
The short life span of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and its quick maturation (72 hr after laying eggs) turns this worm into a suitable model organism for developmental biology and ageing research. Development and ageing studies of C. elegans can be insightful for...