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OUTLOOK ’17: Future of US ethanol tied to energy policy US fuel ethanol prices in 2017 will be largely determined by the energy policy of the incoming Trump administration. The energy policy of President-elect Donald Trump will affect future OPEC production, as well as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandates and regulations, which in turn could influence the movement of ethanol prices.

4. ICBA Guidance Document to Mitigate the Potential for Benzene Formation in Beverages, International Council of Beverages Associations, 2006.

Toxic stress affects the developing brain, the immune system, the cardiovascular system and the metabolic regulatory system, and can dramatically increases the risk of hypertension, heart disease and diabetes, among other costly health conditions.

The critical importance of protein structure in determining cell behavior is known (40–42), but translating this strategy into clinically relevant therapies has been challenging. Here, we describe a facile yet robust engineering approach that allows reliable control of synergistic integrin/GF signaling to promote stem cell differentiation and tissue repair. Notably, PEA can be readily applied to diverse biomedical devices, both planar and complex 3D geometries by spin coating, solvent casting, and plasma polymerization (43). We demonstrate that FN nanonetworks, simply adsorbed onto PEA from a solution, allow for simultaneous availability of the integrin-binding region (FNIII9–10) and the GF-binding region (FNIII12–13) (44) of this important ECM protein. The FNIII12–14 region is classically described as the heparin-binding region shown to be a promiscuous GF-binding region able to sequester different GF families [for example, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), fibroblast growth factor (FGF), and transforming growth factor–β (TGF-β)] (13). As a proof of concept, we show here that BMP-2 is bound onto the FN nanonetworks at the material interface, and this binding/presentation promotes enhanced BMP-2 signaling in MSCs, with very low doses of BMP-2 driving osteogenesis and complete repair of nonhealing defects in vivo. We show, for the first time, a surface-induced regeneration of the bone (volume) in a critical-size defect, emphasizing clinical potential. Previous studies have shown the importance of FN conformation in driving osteogenic differentiation on material surfaces, with correct FN conformation required to allow enhanced availability of the integrin-binding site (41). Coating implants with FN fragments leads to better osteointegration, which reveals the importance of integrin specificity–related mechanisms also in vivo (45). Our results show a moderate effect for fibrillar FN nanonetwork presentation on PEA to induce osteogenesis both in vitro, as previously reported (37), and in vivo (Fig. 3). This may be related to the presence of GFs in the regenerative environment (medium/serum), which are adsorbed on FN nanonetworks to induce synergistic signaling.

Project management consultancy (PMC) services will be provided for major projects across the company’s onshore fields in Abu Dhabi, aimed at supporting ADNOC’s group-wide production capacity target of 4 million barrels of oil per day by 2020.

Now, in any given quarter, things are gonna be impacted by the seasonality of our businesses, like it is in the first quarter, by the various mixes that we have in the businesses, but we’re happy with each of our businesses’ performances. They’re the best in the industries. And also, just the total impact of these investments. So, in Q1, you see some of these investments impacting us, but the main reason why Q1 is down versus Q4 is really the seasonality, not the investments.

Health News Florida: Scott Says Health Care A ‘Right,’ But Questions Remain [Rick] Scott’s statement, which came during a debate against U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, is at odds with other Republican politicians and followed years of Scott fighting against heavy government involvement in providing health care. Even before he launched his first campaign for governor, Scott ran television ads decrying the idea of having a “public option” as part of the federal health care overhaul pushed by then-President Barack Obama. (Sexton, 10/5)

North Carolina Health News: Health Insurer Promotes Health And Builds Their Brand Through Basketball Dozens of children in bright blue t-shirts roared and bounced across the bleachers. Meanwhile, a handful of breakdancers somersaulted across the gym floor and froze in gravity-defying holds. A minute later, the purpose of the last week’s rally in Charlotte became clear when a rapper yelled “We’re getting asthma under con….” and the school-age children screamed “troll!” (Duong, 10/5)

OUTLOOK ’17: US phenol margins likely steady With Asian production levels strong and US domestic demand steady, sources expect that phenol margins for 2017 producers will stay close to steady. Discussions for adders over benzene costs have been firmly in the 8-12 cent/lb ($176-265/tonne), which buyers have described as a rollover and producers have described as a slight increase.

In 2005, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recieved private laboratory results showing low levels of benzene in soft drinks containing ascorbic acid and benzoate salts. As the FDA has no standard for benzene in beverages other than bottled water, the NPDWR limit of 5 ppb was set as a standard5.

This approach not only holds promise for eventually delivering on-demand personalized medicines manufactured at, or near, the point of use, but also has short-term potential applications in the synthesis of APIs that are currently out of production. An immediate impact of digitization is that the cost for synthesis at the bench scale (milligrams) could decrease markedly owing to savings in labor and infrastructure with only a one-off digitization cost (and allow operators to make 5 to 10 different products at the same time).