Bioconversion of renewable lignocellulosics to produce liquid fuels and chemicals is one of
the most effective ways to solve the problem of fossil resource shortage, energy security, and …

In the late 70's, the discovery of the restriction enzymes made possible the biological
production of functional proteins by recombinant DNA technologies, a fact that largely …

Valves on the plant epidermis called stomata develop according to positional cues, which
likely involve putative ligands (EPIDERMAL PATTERNING FACTORS [EPFs]) and putative …

Interactions between molecules are ubiquitous and occur in our bodies, the food we eat, the
air we breathe, and myriad additional contexts. Although numerous tools are available for …

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have aroused much interest due to their potential
applications in biosensors, biomolecular electronics and nanotechnology. This has been …

Since the publication of the original review of piezoelectric acoustic sensors in this series
there has been a consistent, gradual expansion in the number of published papers using …

In this work, a novel quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) aptasensor is designed for the
diagnosis of Brucella melitensis bacteria, which affects the Mediterranean fever (brucellosis) …

AT-cut quartz crystals vibrating in the thickness-shear mode (TSM), especially quartz crystal
resonators (QCRs), are well known as very efficient mass sensitive systems because of their …

Genetically engineered periplasmic glucose receptors as biomolecular recognition elements
on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have allowed our laboratory to develop a sensitive and …

Site-directed mutagenesis and functionalization of gold surfaces have been combined to
obtain a stable immobilization of the heme domain of cytochrome P450 BM3 from Bacillus …