Daily Archives: June 27, 2016

Do we really know why cardiac surgery is still affected by substantial inflammatory reaction?

Modern cardiac surgery was born in early fifty’s with the use of the heart lung machine. This machine allowed to bypass the heart and the lung, draining the blood from the right atrium, oxygenating and pumping it

How alkaliphiles produce energy to sustain their life under extremely low concentration of proton

Alkaliphiles are defined as microorganisms with optimum growth pH of above 9 (10-9 mol dm−3 H+ concentration).  This means that these microorganisms can grow in environment with one-hundredth times lower proton (H+) concentration than that of neutral