Molecular Devices, LLC., a leading high-performance life science solutions provider, today launched the QPix® FLEX™ Microbial Colony Picking System. Building on the company’s 20-year legacy developing colony pickers, the QPix…
Category: 5. Biology
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More social parrots have a better vocabulary
In the urban parks of Barcelona, Spain, the calls of a tropical parrot fill the air. The bright green monk parakeet, native to South America, has found a new home in European cities. Monk parakeets thrive in huge colonies where they communicate…
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T. rex’s direct ancestor crossed from Asia to North America
Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.
The study, published in Royal…
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Replanted rainforests may benefit from termite transplants
Termites — infamous for their ability to destroy wood — are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite transplants may be necessary to help regenerating forests to thrive….
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Tiny RNA tag plays big role in cellular stress response
A tiny chemical modification commonly found on messenger RNAs plays a surprisingly large role in how cells respond to stress, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The finding clarifies an important…
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Body mass index and benign prostatic hyperplasia correlate with urinary microbiome diversity and lower urinary tract symptoms in men
Clinical characteristics of study participants
We utilized urine samples and phenotypic data from 500 men at baseline as part of the MrOS study20,25. These 500 men were randomly selected from the overall cohort of 5994 MrOS participants. The…
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Potential shared neoantigens from pan-cancer transcript isoforms
Impact of the dataset choice on pan-cancer-specific isoform detection
The goal of this study is to identify common instances of transcript isoform switching across 41 cancer cohorts from three cancer databases, TCGA28, PCAWG33, and the Oncobox…
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Working memory filtering at encoding and maintenance in healthy ageing, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
Nobre, A. C., Stokes, M. G. & Premembering Experience A hierarchy of Time-Scales for proactive attention. Neuron https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.030 (2019).
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Transcriptome and metabolome analysis reveals different photosynthetic characteristics of mulberry trees with different ploidy levels
Jan, B. et al. Nutritional constituents of mulberry and their potential applications in food and pharmaceuticals. Rev. Saudi J. Biol. Sci. 28, 3909–3921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.03.056 (2021).
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