双荧光共定位系统检测活细胞内蛋白质相互作用

荧光蛋白是目前细胞分子生物学广泛应用的分子探针,在细胞生物学、组织工程、基础医学领域也有广泛应用。荧光蛋白以其可以在活细胞正常生理水平下即时反应细胞、生物大分子和蛋     

Does flagship species tourism benefit conservation? A case study of the golden snub-nosed monkey in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve

Tourism has been widely used as a conservation strategy that directly compensates local people or management authorities, thereby contributing to development and creating incentives to preserve the landscape. Reserves or parks that are inhabited by flagship species may be able to generate more revenue through tourism than those without such species because flagship species have great potential for raising funds and creating publicity for conservation goals. In this paper, we examine flagship species tourism...     

Learning from nature: Fabrication of colloidal PCs with controllable wettability

Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs) with desired wettabilities are of particular importance in various applications. Inspired by biological PCs, such as those of butterfly wings and peacock feathers, which all have evolved to have specific wettability, Professor Song Yanlin and his group in the Laboratory of New Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences developed unique approaches to engineer colloidal PCs with desired wettability, based on the well-designed building blocks of latex particles. The range of wettability of these col- loidal PC films could be tailored from superhydrophobicity to superhydrophilicity and even superoleophobicity, by varying the surface     

Why endophenotype development requires families

Endophenotypes are heritable quantitative traits that are associated with disease liability, can be measured in both affected and unaffected individuals, and provide much greater power to localize and identify risk genes for mental illness than does affection status alone. Traditionally, endophenotypic markers for psychiatric illnesses include in vivo neuroanatomic and functional magnetic resonance imaging measurements and indices of neurocognitive abilities. However, neurocognitive and neuroimaging measures are by no means the only classes of endophenotypes that could be useful for identifying genes for mental illness. Given the advantages of endophenotype-based strategies for elucidating the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders, it would seem prudent to develop a wide range of putative endophenotypes. In order for a measure to be considered a valid endophenotype, it must meet a number of criteria. Specifically, the trait must (1) have moderate to high heritability, (2) be associated with the illness, (3) be independent of clinical state, and (4) impairment must co-segregate with the illness within a family, with non-affected family members showing impairment relative to the general population. While each of these criteria is critical, the heritability and co-segregation requirements are really what differentiate an endophenotype from a simple biomarker. At this time, one requires an experimental design that includes families to demonstrate both heritability and co-segregation. The assertion that novel endophenotypes can not be fully established without family data does not preclude work in unrelated individuals, rather that unrelated samples will only be able to nominate potential candidate endophenotypes that subsequently need to be confirmed in family-based experiments.     

利用PCR-DGGE技术分析硫化镍矿浸矿体系中的细菌群落演替

 浸矿体系中的菌群结构及其演替规律与浸出率具有密切的关系,为了解硫化镍矿浸矿体系中的这种关系以提高浸出率,利用PCR-DGGE(变性梯度凝胶电泳)技术结合16S rRNA基因序列对体系的细菌种群结构进行分析.研究表明,在硫化镍矿浸矿体系中,菌群组成菌属为嗜酸氧化亚铁硫杆菌属(Acidithiobacillus),并在浸矿体系中具有明显的演替现象,浸矿体系中的菌株演替和浸出率具有明显的相关性,经过21d的浸出,硫化镍矿的浸出率达到70%,探索浸矿体系中细菌的种群结构及其演替与浸出率的关系,对优化浸出体系菌群组成,提高浸出率具有指导作用.     

昆明松花坝水源保护区云南松林地表蚂蚁多样性

 运用陷阱法调查了昆明市松花坝水源保护区无干扰及干扰云南松林地表蚂蚁群落.无干扰样地蚂蚁群落由3亚科13种组成,亮毛蚁Lasius fuliginosus最常见;干扰样地由4亚科21种组成,细胸蚁2 Leptothorax sp.2和玉米毛蚁Lasius alienus最常见;2个样地的蚂蚁物种丰富度ACE估计值分别为24.76和26.27,样地间多度及物种丰富度估计值没有显著差异;无干扰样地蚂蚁群落物种组成不同于干扰样地,但部分样带与干扰样地接近;亮毛蚁是无干扰样地的指示物种(IndVal=0.9787,P=0.001),邵氏厚结猛蚁Pachycondyla sauteri是干扰样地的指示物种(IndVal=0.6667,P=0.001);地表蚂蚁多样性与植物多样性具有显著相关性.研究显示:云南松林地表蚂蚁多样性能够指示植物多样性;松花坝水源保护区云南松林地表蚂蚁多样性相对较低;干扰已经改变了云南松林的地表蚂蚁群落组成;保护区的建立对当地生物多样性有积极作用,但保护力度仍然不够.     

南汇东滩围垦湿地大型底栖动物的种类组成、数量分布和季节变动

于2009年10月至2010年7月对南汇东滩围垦湿地大型底栖动物的种类组成、密度和生物量以及生物多样性进行了研究.结果显示,被围垦潮滩共鉴定大型底栖动物9种,自然潮滩有29种;围垦潮滩的年平均密度和生物量分别为130.80ind/m2和1.89g/m2,自然潮滩为49.21ind/m2和4.08g/m2;围垦潮滩的优势...     

海藻酸钙-活性炭纤维固定化生物小球的强化除苯性能

在传统海藻酸钙固定化过程中加入活性炭纤维作为改性载体,以苯系物(BTEX)降解菌为对象,制备了海藻酸钙-活性炭纤维固定化生物小球(MB),并研究了MB微观结构及强化除苯性能.结果表明:所制备的MB直径为2～4,mm,其表面通透、孔道致密,孔径均一(约为200,μm),并可多次重复应用.MB强化除苯过程主要是吸附和生物降解共同作用的结果,且去除速率呈现由快速到慢速两个阶段,均符合一级动力学规律.微生物接种量为6.89,mg/mL(包埋载体溶液)时,MB结构稳定性最好,强化除苯效果最佳.不同接种量条件下,苯生物降解的平均半衰期为64 h,高于游离态BTEX降解菌.     

首钢冷轧废水处理工程实例介绍

介绍了首钢冷轧废水处理工程的废水性质、主要工艺流程、相关设备及构筑物设计运行参数及工程实际运行效果。首钢冷轧废水处理工程采用了超滤、催化氧化、膜生物反应器等多种新技术处理废水,出水达到COD〈60mg/L。     

脑深部神经刺激微电极的表面改性研究

为了提高脑深部刺激电极的生物相容性,降低脑组织的免疫反应,减少或抑制电极周围包裹物的形成,对电极植入端聚氨酯材料进行了表面改性处理.首先用N₂/H₂进行等离子体处理,在电极表面生成活性基团——氨基,再利用电极表面的氨基基团与YIGSR多肽分子发生聚合反应,从而实现在电极表面修饰上对神经细胞具有促进生长作用的多肽分子.改性电极的大鼠植入实验结果发现,改性电极能够在一定程度上减少胶质包裹物的形成,有利于电极与神经细胞之间接触,增加有效刺激体积,证明了电极聚氨酯材料表面接枝聚合生物大分子的可行性,对今后电极表面改性的深入研究具有一定的参考意义.