Until recently, since the Human Genome Project, the general view has been that the majority of the human genome is composed of junk DNA and has little or no selective advantage to the organism.Now we know that this conclusion is an oversimplification.In April 2003, the National Human Genome Research Institute HID-PVM (NHGRI) launched an internation

Spontaneous combustion of coal is a well-known phenomena around the globe.Apart from the coal itself, burning coal-shales is becoming a problem in the South African coal mines.Serious incidents of spontaneous combustion have been reported as a result of self-heating of reactive coal-shales.The intrinsic properties and spontaneous combustion HID-PVM

Abstract Disease-induced personality change results from endogenous and adaptive host responses or parasitic manipulation.Within animal husbandry systems understanding the connection between behaviour and disease is important for health monitoring and for designing systems considerate to animal welfare.However, understanding these relationships wit

Melioidosis is an emerging infection in Brazil and neighbouring South American countries.The wide range of clinical presentations include severe community-acquired pneumonia, septicaemia, central nervous system infection and less severe soft tissue infection.Diagnosis depends heavily on the clinical microbiology laboratory for culture.Burkholderia

Over the last decade or more, there has grown a body of evidence demonstrating that renal dysfunction in heart failure is a combination of forward failure from reduced cardiac output and therefore reduced glomerular filtration rate, as well as "congestive renal failure" secondary to renal venous hypertension.We had demonstrated copyright Oil the ef