Pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccines prevent pneumococcal disease in infants, but their efficacy against pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia in adults 65 years of age or older is ...

Marine microbial communities are responsible for processing an estimated half of the organic carbon annually produced in the ocean (Azam and Malfatti, 2007). It is generally assumed that the ...

Professor Iwata Tadahisa et al. of the University of Tokyo have developed an innovative high performance bioplastics from various polysaccharides obtained from natural biomass or by enzymatic ...