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Taxonomic annotation of public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment- A report from an April 10-11, 2017 workshop (Aberdeen, UK)
The 32 participants went through public fungal ITS barcode sequences related to the built mycobiome for taxonomic and nomenclatural correctness, technical quality, and metadata availability. A total of ...
The need for European OneHealth/EcoHealth networks.
disease prevention healthcare strategy. It was also suggested that a European Community of Practice could be initiated in order to support these several concrete networking initiatives, and to help to ...
Spatial and temporal variations in airborne pollen in Europe.
Europe and for monitoring its efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The goal of the present study is to provide a baseline for spatial and temporal variations in airborne pollen in Europe that can be used for ...
Isolation and characterization of the compounds responsible for the antimutagenic activity of Combretum microphyllum (Combretaceae) leaf extracts
n-Tetracosanol Abstract: BACKGROUND: Mutations play a major role in the pathogenesis and development of several chronic degenerative diseases including cancer. It follows, therefore that antimutagenic compound may ...
The Vitotox and ToxTracker assays: a two-test combination for quick and reliable assessment of genotoxic hazards
Human human health INFORMATION IS Less Paper performance result results SENSITIVITY Test variety Vitotox Abstract: To ensure human health, it is essential to characterize the genotoxic potential of new ...
Scientific opinion on Malachite green in food
not registered for use in food-producing animals in the European Union. The European Commission requested EFSA to evaluate whether a reference point for action (RPA) of 2 lg/kg for the sum of MG and its ...
Field trials with GM trees: a step-by-step approach
Forestry genetically Genetically modified GM GM plant GM plants GM trees Impact implementation Increase Increases interaction interactions IS IT KNOWLEDGE LEVEL Netherlands ON plant Plants POLICIES POLICY ...
Comparison of ITS DNA sequencing and MALDI-TOF Mass spectrometry to identify dermatophytes
NA, Issue ISHAM, NA (2016) Keywords: Comparison Dna identify IT ITS MALDI-TOF Mass Mass Spectrometry Health Topics: Health and environment Santé et environnement Gezondheid en milieu Service: ...
In silico tools and transcriptomics analyses in the mutagenicity assessment of cosmetic ingredients: a proof-of-principle on how to add weight to the evidence.
studies. In the case of cosmetics it may even induce the ban of the particular compound since in Europe the use of experimental animals is no longer allowed for cosmetics. In this article, an alternative ...
Scientific Statement on Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood
toxicokinetic data are lacking for both microplastics and nanoplastics for a human risk assessment. It is recommended that analytical methods should be further developed for microplastics and developed for ...