An international research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing technology to dissolve painful kidney stones in the urinary tract using tiny robots. The research is published in the ...

The urinash process offers a novel approach to fertilizer production, converting waste into green ammonia and calcium ...

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WITH reference to Mr. Elson's observation1 that ascorbic acid at low concentrations inhibits urease activity, and that this inhibition disappears in the presence of cysteine, it is worth noting that ...

Abstract: A patient at the fifth stage of chronic kidney disease usually needs dialysis or transplantation. The adequacy of dialysis can be assessed by the dimensionless parameter Kt/V, which depends ...

The agricultural industry widely uses urea, a white crystalline solid containing 46 percent nitrogen, as an animal feed additive and fertilizer. Here, we’ll focus on its role as a nitrogen fertilizer.

Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are widespread enzymes in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes, and catalyze a crucially important physiological reaction: the hydration of carbon dioxide to bicarbonate and ...

This type of medium is both selective and differential. The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the ...

† Ryhov County Hospital, Medical Services, Clinical Microbiology, SE-551 85 Jönköping, Sweden ‡ Linköping University, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Medical Microbiology, SE-581 85 ...

Microbialites represent one of the oldest known ecosystems on Earth, with a fossil record dating back 3.7 billion years. These long-lived communities form sedimentary structures as a result of the ...