Bacteria have long been the targets for genetic manipulation, but more recently they have
been synthetically designed to carry out specific tasks. Among the simplest of these tasks is …

A biosensor is a measurement device or system that is composed of a biological sensing
component, which recognizes a chemical or physical change, coupled to a transducing …

The first edition of Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment was released in 2012.
The field has exploded since and the second edition updates and reviews the application of …

Interest in the ecological effects of composting has been growing recently. However, no
established methods are available for testing the toxicity of composted materials. Despite …

In contrast to thermophilic or psychrophilic organisms, heavy metal-resistant bacteria do not
supply enzymes that are active under harsh conditions, but are themselves tools for the …

Dichloromethane and 90% methanol extracts from 51 South African medicinal plants were
evaluated for potential genotoxic effects using the bacterial Ames and VITOTOX® tests with …

AIM OF THE STUDY: The aim of this paper was to summarize the results of our
investigations on the in vitro genotoxic as well as antigenotoxic effects of a great number of …

Chemical exposure of cells may damage biomolecules, cellular structures, and organelles
thereby jeopardizing cellular homeostasis. A multitude of defense mechanisms have …

In parallel to the continuous development of increasingly more sophisticated physical and
chemical analytical technologies for the detection of environmental pollutants, there is a …

Bacterial bile salt hydrolysis is considered a risk factor for the development of colon cancer
because of the risk of forming harmful secondary bile salts after an initial deconjugation step …