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Category: 5. Biology
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Solar park boom threatens Spain’s centuries-old olive trees
Francisco Ruiz Palomo, president of La Loperana olive oil producers’ cooperative, poses in his olive grove in Lopera on March 24, 2025.
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The Secret “Radar” Bacteria Use To Outsmart Their Enemies
A chemical radar allows bacteria to sense and eliminate predators. Investigating how microorganisms communicate deepens our understanding of the complex ecological interactions that shape our environment is an area of key focus for the Cluster of…
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Heavy Alcohol Intake Increases Brain Lesion Risk by 133%
Drinking more than eight alcoholic drinks per week is linked to a higher risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, which are linked to memory and thinking problems. The corresponding study was…
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Secrets of the Green Sahara: Ancient DNA Reveals Lost North African Lineage
A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other groups. DNA analysis of two naturally mummified…
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Ameliorating effect of the aldose reductase inhibitor 1-Acetyl-5-phenyl-1 H-pyrrol-3-ylacetate on galactose-induced cataract
Cell culture
The human lens epithelial cell line SRA01/04 was purchased from the FuHeng Biology. SRA01/04 cells were cultured in H-DMEM medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum, 100U/mL penicillin and 100 µg/mL streptomycin at 37℃ in a…
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Species- and context-dependent responses of green lacewings suggest a complex ecological role for methyl salicylate (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)
Preparation of baits
Methyl salicylate, phenylacetaldehyde and squalene (≥ 95% purity as per the manufacturer) were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich Kft. (Budapest, Hungary). (1R,4aS,7S,7aR)-Nepetalactol was synthesized as follows:
To a solution of…
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Identification and validation of LY6H and GRM3 as candidate biomarkers for Glioma-related epilepsy
Sample acquisition
Following treatment protocols, glioma resection and epileptic focus excision surgeries were performed, with samples obtained intraoperatively for GRE (experimental group) and glioma none epilepsy (control group). All samples…
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Tracing genomic instability in induced mesenchymal stromal cell manufacture: an integration-free transfection approach
Ethics
All studies involving human and animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Review Board (P01-201910-31-005), the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)…
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Vesicular and non-vesicular extracellular small RNAs direct gene silencing in a plant-interacting bacterium
Stable expression of anti-cfa6/hrpL sRNAs in Arabidopsis reduces Pto DC3000 virulence
Pto DC3000 is the causal agent of bacterial speck in tomato and can also infect Arabidopsis thaliana18. This bacterium enters Arabidopsis leaf tissues through…
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Virtual cells for predictive immunotherapy
Virtual cells for predictive immunotherapy
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