Lactic acid bacteria (LABs) are generally considered as safe (GRAS) and are being utilized in the food industry as a biopreservative and probiotic. However, the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in food-associated ...

Enterococci are gram-positive bacterial which have been linked to serious and life-threatening infections in humans, despite their inherent presence in the environment and in human and animal intestinal microbiota. ...

Salmonella spp. are foodborne pathogens known to cause numerous outbreaks and is considered to be one of the top 4 causes of foodborne illnesses in the Philippines. It is transmitted through the fecal-oral route and ...

The increasing amount of pharmaceuticals in the environment is an emerging environmental issue. In the Philippines, studies regarding the long-term effects of these drugs on non-target organisms are lacking up to now. ...

Mussels, Perna viridis L., were collected from three seafood markets in Metro Manila (Macapagal Seaside Market, The Original Dampa Freshfood Market, and Seaside Mart), and were tested for heavy metals including cadmium, ...

The effectiveness of catechins singly and in combination with vitamin E in lowering lipid peroxide levels in the lungs were examined. Five groups of mice were treated in a 50-day period as follows: feeding with regular ...

An increase in the international market demand of coconuts poses a threat to the country's bodies of water since the surplus product which is coconut water, is thrown into rivers further increasing the Biological Oxygen ...

Metal leachates from abandoned mine sites endanger plants, animals, and humans as these enter the food chain. A technique to reduce availability of heavy metals to the ecosystem was proposed. This made use of Flamingia ...

The Hox is a group of regulatory genes that produce proteins and direct pattern formation in the developing embryo. The encoded protein, or the homeobox, has a segment called the homeodomain which acts as a transcription ...

Segmentally duplicated regions are stretches of DNA in the human genome that have been copied several times. They are said to be the driving force of evolution. Because of this, it is important to study the different ...