Day: 3. August 2015

Nematodes play an important role in plant ecology and can develop into dangerous pests. The project group has developed a MEMS-fabricated microchannel PDMS-device which simulates soil and allows to apply gradients of chemicals. The movements of nematodes (model organism: M. incognita) in these gradients provide information of their behavior in soil, e. g., after fertilization, […]

The performance of this android can be watched at Youtube under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb_tmGe3ga0 JST news release, August 3, 2015

A team from Chiba University, RIKEN and Wakunaga Pharmaceutical Co. has found that stereoselective S-oxidation during the biosynthesis of S-allyl-l-cysteine sulfoxide (alliin) in garlic is catalyzed by a flavin-containing monooxygenase JST news release, August 3, 2015