ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The global rise in microbial resistance, ranging from the agricultural industry to the medical sector, has created the urgent need for novel or supplementary antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides or ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Codes are ubiquitous in culture|and, by implication, in nature. Code biology is the study of these codes. However, the term `code' has assumed a variety of meanings, sowing confusion and cynicism. The ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study describes: the evaluation of the current, and potential assay methods for the quantification of cholesterol, cholesteryl esters and free fatty acids in milk and the application thereof ; ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Metabolic networks of cellular systems are complex, in that there are numerous components with multiple non-linear interactions. To understand how these networks work they are often split into manageable ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis gives a broad overview of what artificial chemistries (ACs) are, a brief review of several ACs and their applications, and an in depth analysis of one speci c AC: the four-bit binary string ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study, the effect of the amino acid residues at positions 40 and 407 on the catalytic activity of porcine CYP17A1 was investigated. Porcine cofactor CYB5 was cloned from porcine liver tissue ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are currently the most researched group of compounds for new antimicrobial drugs especially with the rise in resistance to almost all available drugs by public health ...