Tree nuts are considered an important food in healthy diets. However, for part of the world’s population, they are one of the most common sources of food allergens causing acute allergic reactions that can become life-threatening. They are part of the Big Eight food groups which are responsible for more than 90% of food allergy cases in the United States, and within this group, almond allergies are persistent and normally severe and...
Background COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide since December 2019. Serological tests for SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing are needed for detection of current or past infections. A wide range of commercial tests is available. However, most of them need to be validated. Study design The aim was to compare a commercial IgG and IgA ELISA (Euroimmun) with three lateral flow immunoassays (LFI): Hangzhou Alltest Biotech, Wuhan UNscience Biotechnology...
Malaria management applications implementing Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) are inspired to conduct subject monitoring of nets' survival, cloth integrity and insecticidal bio-efficacy. The reference technique for testing the insecticide exercise of LLINs wants 100 two-to-five-day-old feminine mosquitoes per web, which is extremely resource-intensive. We geared toward figuring out another protocol, utilizing fewer mosquitos, whereas...
Increased incidence of abiotic stresses impacting adversely plant growth and productivity in major crops is being witnessed all over the world. Therefore, as a result of such stress elements, plant growth under the stress conditions will be less than the non-stress conditions. Growing concerns and global demand for right, environmentally-friendly techniques exist to reduce the adverse effects of plant stress. Under such stressful conditions,...
The study was undertaken in three totally different malaria endemic blocks of Assam throughout the interval of June to October of 2014. The residual bio-efficacies have been ascertained utilizing the WHO cone-bioassay methodology for mosquito mortality post-exposure and corroborated with the ring-net assay for the median knockdown occasions of each varieties of LLINs in use by these communities. Cross-sectional neighborhood surveys have been...
Biodiversity is the feedstock for the biotechnology trade. Hence, the conservation, enhancement and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity must be accorded excessive precedence in all nationwide atmosphere safety programmes. Lichens function helpful indicators of environmental well being. Similarly, a number of blue inexperienced algae assist to sequester salt from water. There is want for the extra widespread use of such biomonitoring...