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When You Lose Weight, Where Does It Actually Go?
Most health professionals lack a clear understanding of how body fat is lost, often subscribing to misconceptions like fat converting to energy or muscle. The truth is, fat is actually broken down into carbon dioxide and water, with the majority…
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Northwestern scientists identify key genes behind Parkinson’s development
A longstanding mystery in Parkinson’s disease research has been why some individuals carrying pathogenic variants that increase their risk of PD go on to develop the disease, while others who also carry such variants do not. The…
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Decoding the enzymatic breakdown of alginates for green biotechnology
Every year, thousands of tonnes of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer composed of sugars that has high density and strength, offering potential biotechnological applications….
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Bacteria engineered for remote sensing through color signatures
Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, these signals can only be detected by looking at the cells under a microscope or similarly sensitive lab…
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triangulaR: an R package for identifying AIMs and building triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones
Here, we present triangulaR (https://github.com/omys-omics/triangulaR), an R package for identifying AIMs, calculating hybrid index and interclass heterozygosity, and visualizing triangle plots from SNP data. To facilitate use of triangulaR and…
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Mutualism breakdown underpins evolutionary rescue in an obligate cross-feeding bacterial consortium
Bell, G. Evolutionary rescue. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 48, 605–627 (2017).
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Diniz-Filho, J. A. F. & Bini, L. M. Will life find a way out? evolutionary rescue and Darwinian…
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Particulate matter and co-occurring genetic risk induce oxidative stress and cardiac and brain Alzheimer’s pathology
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Mice exposure survival
No differences in survival were noticed across male groups during PM2.5 exposure, whereas three female AD mice exposed to…
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Cortico force coherence of the finger and toe with slight rhythmic pressure on force sensors using electroencephalography
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Fourteen healthy volunteers (all men; age range, 20–23 years; mean age, 21.1 years) were examined. All participants were right-handed and right-footed, as determined by the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory27 and the Waterloo…
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Genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, bacteria, and viruses recovered from marine picocyanobacteria cultures based on Illumina and Qitan nanopore sequencing
Cesar-Ribeiro, C., Barbosa, C. S., Terra, V. & Ghisi, N. D. C. Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus marine cyanobacteria: a scientometrics review. Lat Am J Aquat Res. 51, 556–569 (2023).
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