Abstract: A heat treatment for live yeast cell slurries and pastes, which comprises heating the slurry or paste at a temperature of about 60.degree. C. or greater for a sufficient period of time, increases the fluidity of the slurry or paste and allows more highly concentrated suspensions to be processed than otherwise possible.

Abstract: Compositions including, in units/ml, factor VIII correctional activity, about from 2-35; prothrombin, about from 1-10; thrombin, less than about 0.003; factor VII, about from 37-190; factor VIIa, about from 8-80; total factor IX, about from 15-112; factor IX precursor, 0 to about 30; factor X, about from 1-30; and factor Xa, about from 1-10 are used in therapeutically effective amounts to treat blood clotting factor inhibitors.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for feeding solid materials against high pressures wherein a compressible solid is continuously conveyed through a screw extruder having a design compression ratio of from about 50 to about 100 percent of the compression ratio of the solid material being conveyed.

Abstract: A method is described for the manufacture of wax esters from saturated hydrocarbons by the metabolic action of microorganisms. These wax esters contain either 0, 1 or 2 internally located carbon-carbon double bonds, with no more than 1 carbon-carbon double bond being in the fatty acid or the fatty alcohol segments. These wax esters are chemically similar to the wax esters of sperm whale oil and jojoba oil, and are useful as lubricants and lubricant additives, for example. They also are a ready source of industrially important mono-ene fatty acids and fatty alcohols, when saponified.