A new study led by a researcher from UCL (University College London) finds that baby and very young sauropods were critical to sustaining predators during the Late Jurassic. Sauropods were long necked, long tailed plant eaters that grew into the…
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New platform improves prediction of human antibody drug responses
An international research consortium, led by scientists at VIB and UGent, has developed a new platform that could change how antibody medicines are tested and brought to patients. The work, published in Science Immunology,…
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Signaling output genes shed light on evolutionary crossroads of vertebrates
New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper published in BMC Biology, researchers found…
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Genome contamination may lead to an overestimation of horizontal gene transfer inferences
Arising from M. Ellabaan et al. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22757-1 (2021)
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) through mobile genetic elements (MGEs) is the main driver of the…
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Plastic microglia | Nature Immunology
The developmental plasticity of various microglia subpopulations identified in the developing, diseased or aging brain remains unclear. In Immunity, Hamagami et al. use genetic fate mapping to show that proliferative-region-associated microglia…
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Haplotype-level analysis of environmental DNA metabarcoding revealed the biogeography and phylogeography of freshwater fishes in Korean Peninsula
Kim, Y. R. et al. Phylogeographic and population genetic study of a Korean endemic freshwater fish species, Zacco Koreanus. Korean J. Environ. Biology. 38 (4), 650–657 (2020).
Yoon, J. D. et…
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Chronic early life stress alters the microbial and transcriptional profile of the zebrafish gut
Graves, C. L. et al. Chronic early life stress alters the neuroimmune profile and functioning of the developing zebrafish gut. Brain Behav. Immun. Health. 31, 100655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2023.100655 (2023).
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Temporal transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of adipose tissue from cold-exposed mice
Cold stimulation has emerged as a promising therapeutic strategy against obesity by activating thermogenesis. Although the metabolic responses of adipose tissue to cold are well documented, the dynamic transcriptional and proteomic changes that…
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One eye on cytokines
One eye on cytokines
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