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What are benefits of biosensors?

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Biosensors are most commonly used within the Healthcare and the Apparel industry. With the use of Biosensors within the healthcare industry, the opportunities are endless. They can be used for monitoring heart rate, respiratory rate, brain activity, or body temperature. However, they also can be used to provide electrical stimulation , or e-stim, to patients to help provide a quicker recovery time on wounds. Within the apparel industry , biosensors can be printed directly into clothing to monitor information for the wearer. Biosensors are commonly being used to monitor a patient’s vitals from a remote location, as well as performance monitoring within the sporting industry. Biosensors make it possible to track muscle activity such as muscle symmetry, or muscle fatigue. They also can monitor distance traveled, jumps, acceleration, force development, and speed.

How does the corona-virus replicate?

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Coronaviruses are very unusual, large, enveloped RNA viruses of both medical and veterinary importance. They have a genome of over 30,000 nucleotides (30 K bases) so can be called gigantic in virology sense . They are also slightly unusual in how they replicate themselves at the molecular level. They employ some unusual strategies to accomplish a complex program of gene expression. Coronavirus replication entails ribosome frameshifting during genome translation , the synthesis of both genomic and multiple sub genomic RNA species, and the assembly of progeny virions by a pathway that is unique among enveloped RNA viruses Coronaviruses have a two-step replication mechanism. (Many RNA virus genomes contain a single, large gene that is translated by the cellular machinery of the host to produce all viral proteins). Coronaviruses may contain up to 10 separate genes. Most ribosomes translate the biggest one of these genes, called replicase, which by itself is twice th

What is PCD in pharma and how we can choose a good PCD pharma franchise?

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The increasing demand for a variety of medicines and the continuous requirement to formulate the new products are key contributors to the spending growth in the pharma industry . PCD is the part of the pharma franchise but is offering lucrative business opportunities. Many business-minded individuals are part of the pharma industry. The major benefit that one gets by PCD franchise is less investment and risk. With the increase in the pharma industry the PCD pharma franchise business is also growing tremendously. If you are a newcomer who wants to have your own independent pharma business then PCD franchise can be the best choice for you. We,  Biocorp Lifesciences  is here to answer the most asked question of the newcomers. Know About PCD in Pharma PCD refers to Propaganda Cum Distribution. Basically, PCD is a franchise business. Let’s discuss what a franchise business is. When a company gives rights to an individual to sell its products by their name. Usually, the franc

Can Nutritionist cure your Auto-Immune Disease?

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There are various kind of Auto immune disorders . This disorder occurs when one self-body cells attack themselves and create a condition of illness, allergy or disease that can manifest in different ways. There are nearly 80 kinds of auto immune diseases identified. Causes are generally unknown. Why does this happen? When does it happen? And why does it happen to certain people? What is the cure? Normally, all cells in our body are compatible to each other. However, each one us over a period of our lifetime, eat, consume allergens (at different degrees) and sometimes genetically inherited that create an imbalance . Some change the way some of our own body cells react. Medical treatment depends on the type and severity of the condition. While treatment usually improves symptoms, they do not typically cure the disease. Solutions are to be implemented long term and take in substantial research to identify triggers and find ways to eliminate them. According to the  best nut

What are the different types of bioreactors?

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To first understand what a biological reactor might be, I might first need to make you understand what biological materials are. And you will understand why that is in just a short while. So read the whole thing if you want to get a good grip on what you are searching for. Now a biological reactor or a bioreactor as you might call it, is merely a vessel that can support and contain biological materials or biological materials. And now you know I said that to understand bioreactors you might first need to understand what biological materials are. Here’s the short version to biological materials , they are merely composites that are made up of either whole or a part of a living organism, any living organism. Living organism may include tissues, biomass, body fluids, cellular component and the list will go on. Basically any living things that moves and breathes. And yes that’s it. See I wasn’t lying when I said it is going to be a short version . Now coming back to bioreactors, t

Can a virus or bacteria kill off a whole species of plants?

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In Britain a few years ago, the species of tree called the Elm tree suffered attack by a bacterial species which caused the disease known as 'Dutch elm disease' . The trees gradually died and it was thought there were no more left alive, but some live trees of the species were found to have survived and there were also uninfected trees in another country . The same thing happened in Britain at the time of the disease called the plague (around the 1600s) when many died from this disease. Everyone was in danger , but eventually the disease died down and in modern times it is almost unknown. It is a paradox that such bacteria (or even parasitic plants) seem to kill off their food source, or their host, so it seems that if the host to parasites is small in number they could be wiped out, together with the parasite and a bacterial species could wipe out their victim species if there were already very few left.

What is an ochratoxin?

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Ochratoxins  are a group of mycotoxins produced by some  Aspergillus  species (mainly A.  ochraceus  and A.  carbonarius , but also by 33% of A.  Niger  industrial strains) and some  Penicillium  species, especially  P. verrucosum . Ochratoxin A is the most prevalent and relevant fungal toxin of this group, while ochratoxins B and C are of lesser importance. Ochratoxin A is known to occur in commodities such as cereals, coffee, dried fruit, and red wine. It is possibly a human carcinogen and is of special interest as it can be accumulated in the meat of animals. Thus, meat and meat products can be contaminated with this toxin. Exposure to ochratoxins through diet can cause acute toxicity in mammalian kidneys. It has been suggested that carriers of alleles associated with phenylketonuria may have been protected from spontaneous abortion caused by ochratoxin exposure, providing a heterozygous advantage for the alleles despite the possibility of severe mental retardation in the

How is the life of a biotech researcher?

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That depends on your job, education, and sadly the most important of all connections. Life is great in biotech research if you have the right connections. Just networking won’t do. You need to be liked, trusted, and brilliant WITH experience. If you lack one of those things in a niche such as this, you’re facing an uphill battle. On a daily basis you need to be able to schedule your time from the moment you arrive until the moment you leave, leaving room for fixing routine failures of yours AND others. How advanced the technology you are working with is will determine what your schedule needs to account for and how long you need to consider certain things as factors. To account for all of these factors, one essentially needs to be overqualified for the job they are doing. This is not one of those fields where you are hired to fill a position of in which you aren’t completely confident. Biotech is big money, so they don’t let you “fake it until you make it,” as is the ca

How is biotechnology harmful for genetically modified crops on the environment?

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Crops do not damage the environment simply because they are GM. Some farming practices, such as the overuse of herbicides resulting in the excessive eradication of wild plants from farmland have been shown to harm the environment. These problems are similar for non-GM and GM crops. In a large farm scale evaluation of herbicide tolerant GM crops conducted in the UK between 1999 and 2006 it was shown that when weed control is particularly effective insect biodiversity is reduced. It did not matter whether or not the crop was GM- the important factor was how many weeds remained in the crop. Damage to wildlife can be reduced if a small amount of agricultural land is set aside for biodiversity. A related issue is the growing problem of weeds becoming resistant to herbicides, due to the overuse of those herbicides. Herbicide tolerant crops, whether GM or non-GM, can cause this problem because repeated growth of the same herbicide tolerant crop involves repeated use of the same he