• Biomonitoring of Benzene and Effect of Wearing Respirators during an Oil Spill Field Trial at Sea 

      Gjesteland, Ingrid; Hollund, Bjørg Eli; Kirkeleit, Jorunn; Daling, Per Snorre; Bråtveit, Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-10)
      Objectives The main aim of this study was to assess the biological uptake of benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) for subjects exposed to fresh crude oil released at sea. Methods: The study included 22 ...
    • Bioorthogonal Non-canonical Amino Acid Tagging Combined With Flow Cytometry for Determination of Activity in Aquatic Microorganisms 

      Lindivat, Mathilde; Larsen, Aud; Hess-Erga, Ole-Kristian; Bratbak, Gunnar; Hoell, Ingunn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In this study, we have combined bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT) and flow cytometry (FCM) analysis, and we demonstrate the applicability of the method for marine prokaryotes. Enumeration of active ...
    • Biophysical analysis of Plasmodium falciparum Hsp70-Hsp90 organising protein (PfHop) reveals a monomer that is characterised by folded segments connected by flexible linkers 

      Makumire, Stanley; Zininga, Tawanda; Vahokoski, Juha; Kursula, Inari; Shonhai, Addmore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Plasmodium falciparum causes the most lethal form of malaria. The cooperation of heat shock protein (Hsp) 70 and 90 is thought to facilitate folding of select group of cellular proteins that are crucial for cyto-protection ...
    • Biophysical and biological effects from infrared Low-Level-Laser-Therapy 

      Joensen, Jon (Doctoral thesis, 2013-08-15)
      Introduction: Physiotherapists have since the early days of the profession utilized electro physical agents (EPAs) as part of their intervention toolbox. A prerequisite for application of all EPAs is that the applied energy ...
    • Bioprospecting North Atlantic microalgae with fast growth and high polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content for microalgae-based technologies 

      Steinrücken, Pia; Erga, Svein Rune; Mjøs, Svein Are; Kleivdal, Hans Torstein; Prestegard, Siv Kristin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-09)
      Microalgae are considered to be an important and sustainable alternative to fish oil as a source for the polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Due to their health ...
    • BioSimulators: a central registry of simulation engines and services for recommending specific tools 

      Shaikh, Bilal; Smith, Lucian P; Vasilescu, Dan; Marupilla, Gnaneswara; Wilson, Michael; Agmon, Eran; Agnew, Henry; Andrews, Steven S; Anwar, Azraf; Beber, Moritz E; Bergmann, Frank T; Brooks, David; Brusch, Lutz; Calzone, Laurence; Choi, Kiri; Cooper, Joshua; Detloff, John; Drawert, Brian; Dumontier, Michel; Ermentrout, G Bard; Faeder, James R; Freiburger, Andrew P; Fröhlich, Fabian; Funahashi, Akira; Garny, Alan; Gennari, John H; Gleeson, Padraig; Goelzer, Anne; Haiman, Zachary; Hasenauer, Jan; Hellerstein, Joseph L; Hermjakob, Henning; Hoops, Stefan; Ison, Jon C; Jahn, Diego; Jakubowski, Henry V; Jordan, Ryann; Kalaš, Matúš; König, Matthias; Liebermeister, Wolfram; Sheriff, Rahuman S. Malik; Mandal, Synchon; McDougal, Robert; Medley, J Kyle; Mendes, Pedro; Müller, Robert; Myers, Chris J; Naldi, Aurelien; Nguyen, Tung V. N; Nickerson, David P; Olivier, Brett G; Patoliya, Drashti; Paulevé, Loïc; Petzold, Linda R; Priya, Ankita; Rampadarath, Anand K; Rohwer, Johann M; Saglam, Ali S; Singh, Dilawar; Sinha, Ankur; Snoep, Jacky; Sorby, Hugh; Spangler, Ryan; Starruß, Jörn; Thomas, Payton J; Van Niekerk, David; Weindl, Daniel; Zhang, Fengkai; Zhukova, Anna; Goldberg, Arthur P; Schaff, James C; Blinov, Michael L; Sauro, Herbert M; Moraru, Ion I; Karr, Jonathan R (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Computational models have great potential to accelerate bioscience, bioengineering, and medicine. However, it remains challenging to reproduce and reuse simulations, in part, because the numerous formats and methods for ...
    • Biosurfactants as Anti-Agglomerants for Gas Hydrates 

      Flatabø, Gudny Øyre (Master thesis, 2013-08-14)
      Gas hydrate blockages in petroleum pipelines are considered a major hazard in the petroleum industry, and with increasing water content and decreasing temperatures, a solution is sought upon that is both environmentally ...
    • The biosynthesis of phospholipids is linked to the cell cycle in a model eukaryote 

      Vitova, Milada; Lanta, Vojtech; Cizkova, Maria; Jakubec, Martin; Rise, Frode; Halskau, Øyvind; Bisova, Katerina; Furse, Samuel Robert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The structural challenges faced by eukaryotic cells through the cell cycle are key for understanding cell viability and proliferation. We tested the hypothesis that the biosynthesis of structural lipids is linked to the ...
    • Biotechnology: Action and choice in second modernity. 

      Rommetveit, Kjetil (Doctoral thesis, 2007-11)
    • Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change 

      Vandvik, Vigdis; Skarpaas, Olav; Klanderud, Kari; Telford, Richard J.; Halbritter, Aud Helen; Goldberg, Deborah E (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Generality in understanding biodiversity responses to climate change has been hampered by substantial variation in the rates and even directions of response to a given change in climate. We propose that such context ...
    • biotoolsSchema: a formalized schema for bioinformatics software description 

      Ison, Jon; Ienasescu, Hans; Rydza, Emil; Chmura, Piotr; Rapacki, Kristoffer; Gaignard, Alban; Schwämmle, Veit; van Helden, Jacques; Kalaš, Matúš; Ménager, Hervé (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Life scientists routinely face massive and heterogeneous data analysis tasks and must find and access the most suitable databases or software in a jungle of web-accessible resources. The diversity of information ...
    • Biotyping reveals loss of motility in two distinct Yersinia ruckeri lineages exclusive to Norwegian aquaculture 

      Riborg, Andreas Ekroll; Colquhoun, Duncan John; Gulla, Snorre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Non-motile strains of Yersinia ruckeri, known as Y. ruckeri biotype 2, now dominate amongst clinical isolates retrieved from rainbow trout internationally. Due to an acute increase in the number of yersiniosis cases in ...
    • BioXSD: the common data-exchange format for everyday bioinformatics web services 

      Kalaš, Matúš; Puntervoll, Pål; Joseph, Alexandre; Bartaševičiūtė, Edita; Töpfer, Armin; Venkataraman, Prabakar; Pettifer, Steve; Bryne, Jan Christian; Ison, Jon; Blanchet, Christophe; Rapacki, Kristoffer; Jonassen, Inge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)
      Motivation: The world-wide community of life scientists has access to a large number of public bioinformatics databases and tools, which are developed and deployed using diverse technologies and designs. More and more of ...
    • Bipolar multiplex families have an increased burden of common risk variants for psychiatric disorders 

      Andlauer, Till F.M.; Guzman-Parra, José; Streit, Fabian; Strohmaier, Jana; González, Maria José; Flores, Susana Gil; Fabeiro, Francisco J. Cabaleiro; Noriega, Francisco del Río; Perez, Fermin Perez; González, Jesus Haro; Diaz, Guillermo Orozco; Diego-Otero, Yolanda de; Moreno-Küstner, Berta; Auburger, Georg; Degenhardt, Franziska; Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie; Herms, Stefan; Hoffmann, Per; Frank, Josef; Foo, Jerome C.; Treutlein, Jens; Witt, Stephanie H.; Cichon, Sven; Kogevinas, Manolis; Bøen, Erlend; Dale, Anders M.; Djurovic, Srdjan; Elvsåshagen, Torbjørn; Reinbold, Céline Sonja; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Agartz, Ingrid; Melle, Ingrid; Ødegaard, Ketil Joachim; Stordal, Eystein; Andreassen, Ole; Rivas, Fabio; Mayoral, Fermín; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Forstner, Andreas J.; Nöthen, Markus M.; Rietschel, Marcella; Stahl, Eli A.; Breen, Gerome; McQuillin, Andrew; Ripke, Stephan; Trubetskoy, Vassily; Mattheisen, Manuel; Wang, Yunpeng; Morken, Gunnar; Vaaler, Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Multiplex families with a high prevalence of a psychiatric disorder are often examined to identify rare genetic variants with large effect sizes. In the present study, we analysed whether the risk for bipolar disorder (BD) ...
    • "A bird broke forth and sang" Utvalde aspekt ved Emily Dickinsons fuglepoesi 

      Sleire, Jorid (Master thesis, 2013-05-14)
      Emily Dickinson er ein poet som i dag er kjend for sin mangfaldige poetiske produksjon, dikt som tek opp allmenne og universelle tema, og som i dag er ein del av vår vestlege litterære kanon. Vi har her vald å sjå nærare ...
    • Birds in medieval Norway 

      Walker, Samuel James; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Meijer, Hanneke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Whilst modern avian distributions in Scandinavia are well studied, how past events and processes have shaped modern bird communities in the region remains poorly known. This is mainly due to the fact that work on post-glacial ...
    • Birkeland current effects on high-latitude ground magnetic field perturbations 

      Laundal, Karl Magnus; Haaland, Stein; Lehtinen, Nikolai; Gjerløv, Jesper; Østgaard, Nikolai; Tenfjord, Paul; Reistad, Jone Peter; Snekvik, Kristian; Milan, Steve; Ohtani, Shin-ichi; Anderson, Brian J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-18)
      Magnetic perturbations on ground at high latitudes are directly associated only with the divergence-free component of the height-integrated horizontal ionospheric current, J⊥,df. Here we show how J⊥,df can be expressed as ...
    • Birth after preeclamptic pregnancies: association with allergic sensitization and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis in late childhood; a historically matched cohort study 

      Byberg, Kristine Kjer; Øglænd, Bjørn Edvin; Eide, Geir Egil; Øymar, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-04-11)
      Background: The development of allergic sensitization and allergic disease may be related to factors during intrauterine life, but the role of maternal preeclampsia is not known. We studied if maternal preeclampsia is ...
    • The Birth and Death of Toxins with Distinct Functions: A Case Study in the Sea Anemone Nematostella 

      Sachkova, Maria; Singer, Shir A; Macrander, Jason; Reitzel, Adam M.; Peigneur, Steve; Tytgat, Jan; Moran, Yehu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-27)
      The cnidarian Nematostella vectensis has become an established lab model, providing unique opportunities for venom evolution research. The Nematostella venom system is multimodal: involving both nematocytes and ectodermal ...