International competition within the dairy market and increasing public awareness about the
importance of functional food consumption are providing new challenges for innovation in …

The increasing resistance of microorganisms to conventional chemicals and drugs is a
serious and evident worldwide problem that has prompted research into the identification of …

The use of multiple omics techniques (ie, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and
metabolomics) is becoming increasingly popular in all facets of life science. Omics …

Stress is now recognized as a universal premorbid factor associated with many risk factors
of various chronic diseases. Acute stress may induce an individual's adaptive response to …

Bacteria often encounter temperature fluctuations in their natural habitats and must adapt to
survive. The molecular response of bacteria to sudden temperature upshift or downshift is …

Plant metabolism is perturbed by various abiotic stresses. As such the metabolic network of
plants must be reconfigured under stress conditions in order to allow both the maintenance …

Metabolic engineering has allowed the production of a diverse number of valuable
chemicals using microbial organisms. Many biological challenges for improving bio …

Metabolites, the biochemical products of the cellular process, can be used to measure
alterations in biochemical pathways related to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are continuously generated within living systems and the
inability to manage ROS load leads to elevated oxidative stress and cell damage. Oxidative …

Abiotic stress poses major problems to agriculture and increasing efforts are being made to
understand plant stress response and tolerance mechanisms and to develop new tools that …