The revival of yeast cells expressing Rho in a zone surrounding the paper disk containing BCM is an indication regarding the target specificity of the antibiotic and the absence of any obvious toxicity towards the eukaryotic host cells.
Making sense of the controversy surrounding the paper requires clarifying what it does and doesn't say.
The plate was incubated at 37 °C, and a clear zone of inhibition surrounding the paper disc was measured in millimeter (mm).
Two of the 30 SNU professors who signed the petition asking for an investigation told Science the group first learned of the questions surrounding the paper from the BRIC discussion.
In it we discover a few things, including that all of the hoopla (the Nasa news conference and so forth) surrounding the paper's publication was never intended by the authors, and that the subsequent negative reaction by some will be addressed in future editions of Science.
The diameter of the clear inhibition zones surrounding the paper disc saturated with the crude methanolic extract or hexane/ethyl acetate fractions were taken as a measure of the inhibitory power of the sample against the particular test organisms [30] [32].
The antibacterial activity measured by the diameter of inhibition zone surrounding the paper discs saturated with the crude extract was shown to be similar, slightly decreased or increased by the different TLC separated fractions.
The diameter of the clear inhibition zones surrounding the paper discs saturated with crude extract or fractions after 24 or 72 h were taken as a measure of the inhibitory power of the extracts against each of the tested algal species.
