Your body is constantly generating new cells. In your digestive tract, the…
Category: 5. Biology
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Lung cells generated from mouse embryonic fibroblasts in just 7 to 10 days
Researchers in Japan have successfully generated lung cells similar to alveolar epithelial type 2 (AT2) cells from mouse embryonic fibroblasts without using stem cell technology. The AT2-like cells were generated in just 7 to 10…
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When rainforests died, the planet caught fire: New clues from Earth’s greatest extinction
The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.
The Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction – sometimes referred to as…
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What makes a hermit crab more bold? Hairy claws.
If you’ve ever sifted along a tide pool or visited a souvenir stand on a
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Climate change could separate vanilla plants and their pollinators
Vanilla plants could have a future that’s not so sweet.
Wild relatives of the vanilla plant — which could be essential if the original cash crop disappears — may someday live in different places than their usual pollinators,…
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New Study Overturns 50-Year Assumption About Fish Schools
Scientists have long assumed that fish save energy by swimming in neat diamond formations, but a new study using advanced 3D tracking tells a different story. For 50 years, scientists believed that fish swimming in tightly organized diamond…
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A functional neuroimaging biomarker of mild cognitive impairment using TD-fNIRS
General description
The two participant groups, MCI and age-matched HC (Table 1) wore the Kernel Flow2 TD-fNIRS headset and their neurophysiological data was measured while they performed cognitive tasks: Verbal Fluency and N-Back working memory…
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Assembly mechanism of the snRNA nuclear export complex
Assembly mechanism of the snRNA nuclear export complex
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Halomonas sp. MC140, a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) producer isolated from the Arctic environment
Rehm, B. H. Bacterial polymers: Biosynthesis, modifications and applications. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 8, 578–592. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2354 (2010).
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Interleukin-35 impairs human NK cell effector functions and induces their ILC1-like conversion with tissue residency features
Human samples
Healthy human blood (collected in EDTA anticoagulant-containing tubes) was purchased anonymously from the French blood agency (Etablissement Français du sang, Lyon France, convention 16-093). Participants were French voluntary…
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