Spatial Data Objects. The geometry and geography data types support sixteen spatial data objects, or instance types. However, only eleven of these instance types are instantiable; you can create and work with these instances (or instantiate them) in a database.
Rewiring the grain. Metabolic engineering. Golden Rice technology is based on the simple principle that rice plants possess the whole machinery to synthesise Î²-carotene, and while this machinery is fully active in leaves, parts of it are turned off in the grain.
Red yeast rice is made by culturing rice with various strains of the yeast Monascus purpureus. Some preparations of red yeast rice are used in food products in Chinese cuisine, including Peking duck. Others have been sold as dietary supplements to lower blood levels of cholesterol and related lipids.Some red yeast rice products contain substances called monacolins, which are produced by the yeast.Monacolin K is chemically identical to the active ingredient in the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin, which is one of the drugs in the category known as statins. Some red yeast rice products contain substantial amounts of monacolin K, which is chemically identical to the active ingredient in the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin.