Indole-3-Acetamido-Polyamines as Antimicrobial Agents and Antibiotic Adjuvants by Kenneth Sue, Melissa M. Cadelis, Evangelene S. Gill, Florent Rouvier, Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki, Jean Michel Brunel, Brent R. Copp

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A Fish Galectin-8 Possesses Direct Bactericidal Activity by Tengfei Zhang, Shuai Jiang, Li Sun

“…Galectins are able to bind to bacteria, and a few mammalian galectins are known to kill the bound bacteria. In fish, no galectins with direct bactericidal effect have been reported. …”
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Biosynthesis of flower-shaped Au nanoclusters with EGCG and their application for drug delivery by Shichao Wu, Xiangrui Yang, Fanghong Luo, Ting Wu, Peilan Xu, Mingyuan Zou, Jianghua Yan

“…Then, a novel kind of dual-drug loaded, tumor-targeted and highly efficient drug delivery system (Au-Cys-MTX/DOX NCs) for combination therapy was successfully prepared. The TEM of HeLa cells incubated with Au-Cys-MTX/DOX NCs indicated that the Au-Cys-MTX/DOX NCs could indeed enter and kill cancer cells. …”
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Microwave Treatments of Cereals: Effects on Thermophysical and Parenchymal-Related Properties by Anna Angela Barba, Carlo Naddeo, Silvestro Caputo, Gaetano Lamberti, Matteo d’Amore, Annalisa Dalmoro

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Phage Therapy for Crops: Concepts, Experimental and Bioinformatics Approaches to Direct Its Application by José Luis Villalpando-Aguilar, Gilberto Matos-Pech, Itzel López-Rosas, Hugo Gildardo Castelán-Sánchez, Fulgencio Alatorre-Cobos

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The RNA Chaperone Hfq Participates in Persistence to Multiple Antibiotics in the Fish Pathogen <i>Yersinia ruckeri</i> by Iván L. Calderón, María José Barros, Fernanda Montt, Fernando Gil, Juan A. Fuentes, Lillian G. Acuña

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Management of feral goats in insular southern Greece: implications for prehistory by Halstead, P, Isaakidou, V

“…Outre le fait que beaucoup de chèvres férales sont des biens privés, la distinction entre ces animaux et ceux des troupeaux domestiques voisins est souvent masquée par la fuite ou la remise en liberté d'animaux domestiques, par la capture et l'apprivoisement des individus féraux, et par l'approvisionnement en eau et peut-être en fourrage afin d'empêcher la dispersion des troupeaux féraux. …”

Evaluación Microbiológica de las Diferentes Etapas del Proceso de Elaboración de Queso Tipo Gouda en una Industria Venezolana Microbiological assessment of the Gouda-type cheese-ma... by Jacqueline Dávila, Reyes Genara, Corzo Otoniel

“…La adopción del sistema de Análisis de Peligros y Puntos de Control Críticos (HACCP) por la industria quesera es importante para asegurar la inocuidad del producto. …”
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Synthesis and Antibacterial Activity of Manganese-Ferrite/Silver Nanocomposite Combined with Two Essential Oils by Javiera Parada, Marcela Díaz, Edward Hermosilla, Joelis Vera, Gonzalo Tortella, Amedea B. Seabra, Andrés Quiroz, Emilio Hormazábal, Olga Rubilar

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Argonaute and Dicer are essential for communication between Trichoderma atroviride and fungal hosts during mycoparasitism by Eli Efrain Enriquez-Felix, Camilo Pérez-Salazar, José Guillermo Rico-Ruiz, Ana Calheiros de Carvalho, Pablo Cruz-Morales, José Manuel Villalobos-Escobedo, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella

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Actividad antimicobacteriana de terpenos Antimycobacterial activity of terpenes by Juan Gabriel Bueno-Sánchez, Jairo René Martínez-Morales, Elena Stashenko

“…Introducción: La tuberculosis (TB), causada por Mycobacterium tuberculosis es la mayor causa de mortalidad mundial por un único agente patógeno. …”
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Impact of mucus and biofilm on antimicrobial photodynamic therapy: Evaluation using Ruthenium(II) complexes by Raphaëlle Youf, Rosy Ghanem, Adeel Nasir, Gilles Lemercier, Tristan Montier, Tony Le Gall

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Simulation Study on Energy Spectrum Determination of BNCT Neutron Beam with Multi-foil Activation Method by WU Guanghua;WU Huangxin;GU Long;GUAN Xingcai

“…BNCT uses the short-range (4-10 μm) and high linear energy transfer particles produced from the 10B(n,α)7Li thermal neutron capture reaction on 10B to selectively kill tumor cells while suppressing exposure dose to normal tissues. …”
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Phytochemical Analysis and Amoebicidal Evaluation of Different Agave Species by Ana Laura Rodríguez-Zapata, Jorge Ivan Mora-Frias, Miguel Angel Briano-Elias, Armando Pérez-Centeno, Lucia Barrientos-Ramírez, Ramón Reynoso-Orozco, Mario Nava-Villalba, Araceli Castillo-Romero

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GS-2: A Novel Broad-Spectrum Agent for Environmental Microbial Control by Alyce J. Mayfosh, Zoe I. Day, Nathan B. Unsworth, Chun-Qiang Liu, Ruchi Gupta, Soraya Haynes, Rebecca Abraham, Sam Abraham, Zo L. Shaw, Sumeet Walia, Aaron Elbourne, Mark D. Hulett, Thomas F. Rau

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Bis-Indole Alkaloids Isolated from the Sponge <i>Spongosorites calcicola</i> Disrupt Cell Membranes of MRSA by Neyaz A. Khan, Navdeep Kaur, Peter Owens, Olivier P. Thomas, Aoife Boyd

“…Antimicrobial activity was determined by MIC and time-kill assays. The mechanism of action of bis-indoles was assessed using bacterial cytological profiling via fluorescence microscopy. …”
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<i>Dactyloctenium aegyptium</i> (L.) Willd. (Poaceae) Differentially Responds to Pre- and Post-Emergence Herbicides through Micro-Structural Alterations by Sidra Riaz, Sana Basharat, Farooq Ahmad, Mansoor Hameed, Sana Fatima, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad, Syed Mohsan Raza Shah, Ansa Asghar, Mohamed A. El-Sheikh, Prashant Kaushik

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Peroxisomal Membrane Protein PMP34 Is Involved in the Human Papillomavirus Infection Pathway by Rie Ito, Rie Ito, Koji Kitamura, Koji Kitamura, Hidenori Inohara, Kosuke Yusa, Yasufumi Kaneda, Keisuke Nimura

“…The HPV PsV has the truncated herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (dTK) to kill PsV-infected cells when combined with ganciclovir. …”
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An Insight into In Vitro Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Cytotoxic, and Apoptosis Induction Potential of Mangiferin, a Bioactive Compound Derived from <i>Mangifera indica</i> by Ramy S. Yehia, Sarah A. Altwaim

“…To our delight, the IC₅₀ values of mangiferin for the MCF-7 and HeLa cell lines were 41.2 and 44.7 μg/mL, respectively, from MTT cell viability testing, and it was less harmful when tested against the noncancerous cell line. …”
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An Evaluation on the Role of Non-Coding RNA in HIV Transcription and Latency: A Review by Ramirez PW, Pantoja C, Beliakova-Bethell N

“…Reactivating and eliminating “shock and kill” or permanently silencing “block and lock” the latent HIV reservoir, as well as gene editing, remain promising approaches, but so far have proven to be only partially successful. …”
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