Category: 5. Biology

Short-term responses of ground-dwelling arthropod communities to habitat loss and fragmentation in experimental mesoscale landscapes
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Fletcher, R. J. et al. Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity? Biol. Conserv. 226,…

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July 31, 2025

Founder smiles increase investor trust and funding

To address our research questions on whether founder smiling increases investors’ willingness to invest (RQ1) and whether trustworthiness mediates this effect (RQ2), we employed a multi-study design that combines both qualitative and…

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July 31, 2025

Learning the language of biological interactions

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This is a summary of: Siwek, J. C. et al. Sliding Window Interaction Grammar (SWING): a generalized…

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July 31, 2025

Global divergence in plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity hotspots

Alpha diversity data layers

We used previously published global predictions of AM and ECM fungal richness from Van Nuland et al.²⁶ and Mikryukov et al.²⁹, and vascular plant richness from Sabatini et al.²⁸ and Cai et al.²⁷. Both of the fungal…

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July 31, 2025

Impact of allogeneic dental pulp stem cell injection on tissue regeneration in periodontitis: a multicenter randomized clinical trial

Donors, trials, and patients

DPSCs are a type of mesenchymal stem cell.³⁷ To obtain these cells, healthy teeth were collected from adult donors aged 18–35 years at the Dental Clinic of Beijing Stomatological Hospital, following written informed…

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July 31, 2025

The ocean's deepest animal ecosystem

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July 31, 2025

mRNA trafficking directs cell-size-scaling of mitochondria distribution and function

TRAK2 mRNA localisation scales with shifts in cell size

We previously identified a cluster of five mRNAs (TRAK2, KIF1C, RAB13, RASSF3 and NET1) that are highly polarised at the leading edge of endothelial cell (EC) protrusions⁴⁰. Using…