Modern scientific studies have revealed the therapeutic functions of insect extractions include antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antitumor activities, immune regulations and reducing blood sugar. Mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori L. is to be one of the commercial insects that have high medicinal value and are usually used to reduce blood pressure, diabetes, nerve disorders and heart problems. Nutrition plays an important role in improving the growth and development of silkworm Bombyx mori L. like…
A review of Methanoculleus: a hydrogenotrophic methanogens frequently observed in anaerobic habitats Summary: Keywords: Methanoculleus, hydrogenotrophic pathway, methane production Introduction: Methane is an important greenhouse gas due to its capability of retaining heat and its release from many nature sources, including wetlands, fresh water or sea water sediments, and animal manure, etc. There are two main means of atmospheric methane production, biogenic and abiogenic. Since 70%-80% of…
Introduction BOOST Juice founded by Jannie Allis in 2000, she was on adventurous trip to US in year 1999 where she observed that demand of juice and smoothie growing consecutively. When she came back to Australia she started studying about the fast food choices and came to a result that the local market needs a healthy fast food options and with the different concept of retailing in her mind includes customer experience construct on “love life” thinking. With all these different concepts in her…
foods, consider incorporating the following into your diet: Yogurt One of the best probiotic foods you can eat is live-cultured yogurt. If you can, try and find brands that are made from goat’s milk that contain extra forms of probiotics like lactobacillus, acidophilus, thermophillus, bifudus, bulgaricus. With any yogurt, make sure you look at the ingredients so you don’t buy a brand with artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup. Sauerkraut Sauerkraut is an acquired taste for some…
Gram + Cocci To identify the Gram + cocci I first performed a catalyst test which produced oxygen bubbles and indicated a positive catalase result. The next test I preformed was a mannitol salt test using a mannitol-salt agar plate and the results showed positive fermentation turning the plate yellow and also positive growth. This led me to conclusion that my unknown Gram + cocci was Staphylococcus aureus. Gram – Rod To identify the unknown Gram – rod I first performed a H2S production test…
Yogurt You probably know that yogurt is of the best probiotic foods you can eat because it is rich in live cultures. It’s best to find brands that are made from goat’s milk because goat’s milk contains extra forms of beneficial probiotics like lactobacillus, acidophilus, thermophillus, bifudus, and bulgaricus. As with any yogurt, you should be sure to look at the ingredients and stay away from brands that contain artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup. Miso Soup You may have had miso…
it is questionable whether there was any researcher bias into the research and skewed the results (9). Similarly, a recent systematic review published in 2016, concluded that the crying time for babies with colic was less in chiropractic than Lactobacillus pro-biotic treatment recipients (10). However, there are also claims against chiropractic for organic conditions due to its contradiction against current orthodox theories (11). Moreover, a study in 2015 attempted to support the effectiveness…
The two types of bacteria are archaebacteria and eubacteria. What characteristics distinguish these two groups from the other kingdoms? These two groups are different from other kingdoms because all cells in these kingdoms are single-celled organisms whose organelles are not membrane bounds. They are also microscopically small. What is the average size of a bacterium? An average bacterium is about 1-2 micrometres long. How many prokaryote species have been discovered? How many are estimated to…
1.1 INTRODUCTION Historically, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have affected the health and readiness of the US military population (De Oliveira, 1951; Rasnake et al., 2005; McKee et al., 2011; Gaydos et al., 2013). According to the US Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), chlamydia and gonorrhoea have been the most commonly diagnosed bacterial STIs among service members during 2000-2012 (AFHSC, 2013). During the 13-year period, 239,382 diagnoses of chlamydia and…
all of the Gram negative genera were eliminated including: Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Klebsiella, Escherichia, Pseudomonas, Serratia, Alcaligenes, Neisseria, Proteus, Salmonella, Shigella, Erwinia, Veillonella, and Flavobacterium (5). Bacillus, Lactobacillus, Listeria, Kurthia, and Arthrobacter were eliminated because they did not match the coccoid shape of Unknown 15 (5). The catalase test was the next designated test in the identification of Unknown 15. Unknown 15 tested negative for the…