Natural Science Forum / Biology / Microbiology / October 2005

The Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence agencies called the N.S.A. [ National
Security Agency ], C.S.S. [ Central Security Service ], D.I.A. [ Defence
Intelligence Agency ], D.A.R.P.A. [ Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency ], C.I.A. [ Central Intelligence Agency ], the D.H.S. [ ...

I am lurker of the board, been around a while but being an undergrad I
generally never have anything of value to say.
Today unfortunately I am asking for help. I am in an immunology lab and
we are doing and experiment on Macrophage activation and the

we have developed a software to ease the searching of genera.. this
sofware will help naturalists and biologists to easily find there
specific genus...provisions are there for the biologists to add new
genera to the genera bank...

since 3 years, after a double colon operation, in become more and more ill.
Before the colon infiltration was diagnosed, I had unclear fever for month,
afterwards as well - 3 month later an atypical pneumonia was diagnosed.
Since then I become ill more and more - very slowly, but ...

i wanna gain some extracting of fermented broth to carry out ph paper
chromatography.i am doing a experiment for identifing what substance is
the fermented broth.

I am just writing in the hope that someone may be able to point me in the direction of some useful information regarding the appearance of casts in human urine (solid deposits from the kidneys in some disease states). I havn't been able to find many really good sources ...

i have a question about the extract.
i wanna gain some extract from fermented broth that is involved
antibiotics.i don't know which is the best reagent for extracting.
please help a hepless student

Question.  Why or how does the Krebs Cycle start with 1 CO2 molecule and
finishes with 2?
Sorry I cannot provide a prize when answering this one correctly but I
will give out a figuritive cyberspace gold star.

The first living organisms on the earth . . . were presumably one-celled
entities resembling modern fermenting bacteria,” according to chemistry
professor Richard E. Dickerson, writing in Scientific American magazine.
Perhaps you would expect the cell walls of bacteria to be more ...

Question.  Why or how does the krebs cyle start with 1 CO2 molecule and
finishes with 2?
Sorry I cannot provide a prize when answering this one correctly but I
will give out a figuritive cyberspace gold star.

I have run across a LUMAC BIOCOUNTER M1500 TEST UNIT
PORTABLE PHOTON COUNTER for sale on ebay rediculously cheaply. So it
got me interested in exactly what a photon counter is and what its used
for. So I turned to my faithful pal Google and ran a quick search on

I have been working on some cosmid genomic libraries of reptiles.  The
libraries were in the form of glycerol stocks frozen at -80C with
ampicillin, but have fallen victim to Hurricane Katrina.  I have not been
able to get in the lab since the Friday before the storm, and have

Does anyone know the intracellular phosphate and/or sulphate in
Staphylococcus aureus, or more general in a bacterium?
Thanks!

I am looking for the *amount* of charge on the cell membrane of a neuron
that leads to its resting potential. Ideally it would be nice to also know
how much of this charge is K+, Na+, Cl- and whatever other ions may be
significant. I would appreciate any literature refs or author ...