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Category: 5. Biology
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Meteor impacts may have sparked life on Earth, scientists say
Meteor strikes may have done more than reshape Earth’s surface. New research suggests they could have created the hot, chemically rich environments needed for life to begin.
“No one knows, from a scientific perspective, how life could have been…
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Trisomy 8 alters chromatin conformations and activates Y chromosome genes in stem cells to drive a pre-leukemic state
Generation of a new trisomy 8 mouse model
To investigate the mechanisms by which trisomy 8 affects hematopoiesis in vivo, we attempted to generate a new trisomy 8 mouse model. Since homologous genes in human chromosome 8 are separately located in…
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Pre-operative circulating tumor cells predict worse treatment outcome in patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Huang J, Chan WC, Ngai CH, Lok V, Zhang L, Lucero-Prisno DE 3rd, et al. Worldwide burden, risk factors, and temporal trends of ovarian cancer: a global study. Cancers. 2022;14:2230.
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A toolkit for modeling cis-regulatory logic of enhancers at large scale
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This is a summary of: Kempynck, N. et al. CREsted: modeling genomic and synthetic cell-type-specific…
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Complex temporal dynamics of phage-bacteria populations in an animal-associated marine system
Breitbart, M., Bonnain, C., Malki, K. & Sawaya, N. A. Phage puppet masters of the marine microbial realm. Nat. Microbiol 3, 754–766 (2018).
Brum, J. R. & Sullivan, M. B. Rising to the…
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Reframing the substrate as an active process component in fungal solid-state fermentation of foods
Grossmann, L. & McClements, D. J. The science of plant-based foods: approaches to create nutritious and sustainable plant-based cheese analogs. Trends Food Sci. Technol. 118, 207–229 (2021).
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Gungnir codec enabling high error-tolerance and low-redundancy DNA storage through substantial computing power
Ceze, L., Nivala, J. & Strauss, K. Molecular digital data storage using DNA. Nat. Rev. Genet. 20, 456–466 (2019).
Matange, K., Tuck, J. M. & Keung, A. J. DNA stability: a central design…
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S100A6 promotes liver metastasis by activating FGFR3 signaling in BAP1-deficient uveal melanoma
Jager MJ, Shields CL, Cebulla CM, Abdel-Rahman MH, Grossniklaus HE, Stern MH, et al. Uveal melanoma. Nat Rev Dis Prim. 2020;6:24.
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Metabolomic profiles reveal physiological transitions required for long-distance avian migration
Berthold, P. Bird Migration: A General Survey (Oxford University Press on Demand, 2001).
Newton, I. The Migration Ecology of Birds (Elsevier, 2023).
Gill, R. E., Piersma, T., Hufford, G., Servranckx, R. & Riegen, A. Crossing the ultimate ecological…
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