An antbird long thought to be a single widespread species across the Amazon rainforest is, in fact, several different ones. Among them are two newly-described species — Cercomacra mura and Cercomacra raucisona — that inhabit separate…
Category: 5. Biology
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How to make farms tree-friendly and boost food production
Farmers could turn more of the UK’s farmland into productive agroforestry systems if they had access to trusted advice and real farm examples, according to new research from the University of Reading. Dr. Amelia Hood, from the Department of…
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Machine learning model predicts chemical reactions to accelerate drug discovery
Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits and suddenly, a molecule makes a promising new medicine. Normally, creating better molecules consumes huge amounts of…
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Alizarin induces a multidirectional mechanism of anti-cancer action in cervical cancer and prostate cancer cells
Fotia, C., Avnet, S., Granchi, D. & Baldini, N. The natural compound Alizarin as an osteotropic drug for the treatment of bone tumors. J. Orthop. Res. 30, 1486–1492. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.22101 (2012).
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Deep learning-based in silico labeling for analyzing morphological features of MSCs to predict immunomodulatory capacity
Yuqian Z., Jianxin L., Huifen L., Guiyuan L. Improved watershed algorithm for dowels image segmentation. In: 2008 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation) (2008).
Krizhevsky, A., Sutskever, I. & Hinton, G. E. ImageNet…
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Extracellular vesicle engineering using a small scaffold protein
Herrmann, I. K., Wood, M. J. A. & Fuhrmann, G. Extracellular vesicles as a next-generation drug delivery platform. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 748–759 (2021).
Liu, Q., Li, D., Pan, X. & Liang, Y….
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Spatial cartography of human thymus enables the geopositioning of lineage transcription factors in rare mimetic thymic epithelial cells
Xing, Y. & Hogquist, K. A. T-cell tolerance: central and peripheral. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Biol. 4, a006957 (2012).
Kumar, B. V., Connors, T. & Farber, D. L. Human T cell development, localization, and function throughout life. Immunity 48,…
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Stable hydrogen isotope in tropical bat hair and the Asian isoscape: A dataset to advance migration research
Cryan, P. M., Bogan, M. A., Rye, R. O., Landis, G. P. & Kester, C. L. Stable hydrogen isotope analysis of bat hair as evidence for seasonal molt and long-distance migration. Journal of Mammalogy 85, 995–1001, https://doi.org/10.1644/Brg-202…
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Label-free multiphoton microscopy and machine learning for recognition of hepatocellular carcinoma
Villanueva, A. & Hepatocellular Carcinoma N Engl. J. Med. 380, 1450–1462 (2019).
Global Burden of Disease Liver Cancer Collaboration. The Burden of Primary Liver Cancer and Underlying…
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Optical control of the cardiac rhythm with photoswitchable NaV1.5 channel blockers
Chen, L., He, Y., Wang, X., Ge, J. & Li, H. Ventricular voltage-gated ion channels: Detection, characteristics, mechanisms, and drug safety evaluation. Clin. Transl. Med. 11, e530 (2021).
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