To only offer therapies with likely positive effect when predictive biomarkers are available. For breast cancer, The American society of clinical oncology advised in 2007 already that for hormone receptor status, testing should be considered to be repeated in metastatic disease if the results were to influence patient management. Mortality in the first four weeks of life now accounts for 24–56% of all deaths among children under five and 75% of these occur in the first week of life. Of the estimated 4 million neonatal deaths each year, 99% occur in low income countries, and approximately 35% are Carfilzomib 868540-17-4 attributed to preterm birth, making prematurity the leading direct cause of neonatal mortality. Babies born prematurely, but who survive the immediate postnatal period, have an increased risk of death and morbidity during childhood as well as delay in both growth and development compared to babies born at term. Globally, around 10–11% of all births, or an estimated 15 million births per year, are estimated to be preterm,. The incidence of preterm birth is around 10.6% in North America and 6.2% in Europe. There are few reliable estimates from developing countries because of uncertainty around assessment of gestational age and consequent reliance on low birth weight as a proxy measure. We have previously reported rates of between 17% and 24% in rural, community based studies from Malawi among women with anemia and in unselected populations of pregnant women respectively,. Critically, these studies used ultrasound for accurate assessment of gestational age. These rates, we believe, are the highest reported in any unselected population using ultrasound. A review of reported preterm birth rates from 184 countries found Malawi to have highest rate at 18%. Although the reported rates of preterm birth are highest in subSaharan Africa and the highest absolute number of preterm births occurs in Asia, there are very limited data on factors associated with preterm birth in these populations. Preterm birth in these settings is presumed to be strongly associated with infective morbidity because burdens of infection are high in these countries, and because there is strong evidence from in vitro and in vivo. Recently, it was shown that Synechocystis can be used for production of isoprene, a small volatile hydrocarbon, and for photosynthetic generation of bphellandrene, an essential oil, as a side reaction to the isoprenoid biosynthesis. We are now interested in investigating if it is possible to use cyanobacteria for generation of longer-chain isoprenoid hydrocarbons. Using cyanobacteria for direct production of a biofuel is advantageous, since they can grow photosynthetically on minimal media, fixing carbon dioxide from air and using sunlight as an energy source to generate the product. The isoprenoid squalene is a 30-carbon pure hydrocarbon, the formation of which is catalyzed by the enzyme squalene synthase. One important mechanism that we were able to reproduce was the following: we have previously shown that the expressions of some TLR genes such as TLR2, TLR4, and TLR8 were enhanced.