As pointed out by Alves and Rosa, further ethnopharmacological studies are necessary to increase our understanding of the links between traditional uses of faunistic resources and conservation biology, public health policies, sustainable management of natural resources and biological prospecting [ 1].
Joseph will be the biological father, a prospect that delights his mother.
Even more worrying, says Walter Vandersmissen, head of government affairs at SmithKline Beecham Biologicals, is the prospect that rich countries might allow the import of discounted drugs from poor countries, and undercut the drug industry's sales in their profitable markets.
Consequently, QDs exhibit many optical properties, and have a very broad application prospect in biological fluorescent probes and functional materials.
We argue that evolutionary history is not only a source of uncertainty, but also provides the basis, through conserved traits, for very general explanations for biological regularities, and the prospect of unified theories of life.
The known bioactives Reactive Blue 2, 6-hydroxy-DL-DOPA and myricetin were subsequently demonstrated to enhance the cytotoxic and genotoxic potential of the alkylating agent MMS in cell culture assays, indicating specificity for APE1 and exemplifying their prospect as biological probes for APE1 function.
The prospect of biological warfare by terrorists is another serious new threat.
Given their small particle size, good biocompatibility, and low toxicity, gold nanoparticles are considered a good prospect for biological applications [ 10, 11].
7- epiclusianone, a tetraprenylated benzophenone isolated from the epicarp of the native plant Garcinia brasiliensis, exhibits a range of biological activities but its prospect anticancer activity is underexplored.
Add to this the danger of man-made threats, like bioterrorism or biological warfare, and the prospects look more frightening still.
