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  • Text-related functionality and dynamics of visual human pre-frontal activations revealed through neural network convergence

    Text-related functionality and dynamics of visual human pre-frontal activations revealed through neural network convergence

  • Grill-Spector, K. & Malach, R. The human visual cortex. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 27, 649–677 (2004).

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  • Noy, N. et al. Ignition’s glow: ultra-fast spread of global cortical activity…

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  • Programmable protein ligation on cell surfaces

    Programmable protein ligation on cell surfaces

    General materials

    Common reagents and chemicals were purchased from MilliporeSigma unless stated otherwise. The 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene (CAS number 97-00-7), tert-butyl bromoacetate (CAS 5292-43-3), N-hydroxysuccinimide (CAS 6066-82-6),…

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  • Damage to white matter networks resulting from small vessel disease and the effects on cognitive function

    Damage to white matter networks resulting from small vessel disease and the effects on cognitive function

  • Christiansen, P., Larsson, H. B. W., Thomsen, C., Wieslander, S. B. & Henriksen, O. Age dependent white matter lesions and brain volume changes in healthy volunteers. Acta radiol. 35(2), 117–122. https://doi.org/10.1177/028418519403500203…

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  • Direct somatic embryogenesis induction in Aspilia Africana (Pers.) C. D. Adams, and assessment of genetic homogeneity and physiology of regenerants

    Direct somatic embryogenesis induction in Aspilia Africana (Pers.) C. D. Adams, and assessment of genetic homogeneity and physiology of regenerants

    Plant material and Preparation of explants

    With permission from local authorities, A. africana seeds (mature and dry) were collected and provided by Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute (NCRI) from about 50 healthy plants growing at Pece,…

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  • Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs

    Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs

    Mouse strains, influenza infection and antibody treatments

    Transgenic mouse models of breast cancer, using mouse mammary tumour virus (MMTV) long terminal repeats, are widely used. In brief, MMTV-PyMT and MMTV-erbB2/neu/Her2 (MMTV-Her2) mice…

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  • Caerin 1.1/1.9 interfere KHDRBS1-DDX5 regulatory axis to induce IL-18 mediated pyroptosis in a HeLa cell tumour model

    Caerin 1.1/1.9 interfere KHDRBS1-DDX5 regulatory axis to induce IL-18 mediated pyroptosis in a HeLa cell tumour model

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    The HeLa cell was obtained from the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The GSDME KO HeLa cell line was provided by Dr Feng Shao (Chinese Academy of Biological Sciences, Beijing). The KHDRBS1 KO and DDX5…

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  • Assessing alpha lattice design for heat stress indices and yield stability in wheat genotypes

    Assessing alpha lattice design for heat stress indices and yield stability in wheat genotypes

    Assessment of heat stress indices

    Heat stress indices are quantitative tools, widely used to examine the impacts of heat stress on plant growth and development28. Stress indices are crucial tools for assessing physiological and yield-related…

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  • CRISPR-GPT for agentic automation of gene-editing experiments

    CRISPR-GPT for agentic automation of gene-editing experiments

    Building AI co-pilot harnessing LLM’s reasoning ability

    CRISPR-GPT supports four major gene-editing modalities and 22 gene-editing experiment tasks (Fig. 1 and Supplementary Table 1). It offers tunable levels of automation via three modes: Meta,…

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