Research Briefing | 08 May 2024 ‘Ghost roads’ could be the biggest direct threat to tropical forests By using volunteers to map roads in forests across Borneo, Sumatra and New Guinea, an innovative study shows that existing maps of the Asia-Pacific region are rife with errors. It also ...
though not in a general sense but rather as it applies to gaining a better understanding of the heart. This chapter discusses a common challenge of medical research: that it’s hard to come up with large enough study groups of patients with...
The latest research is showing that female and male brains do develop differently in the womb, possibly giving us females this innate sense of being a woman. On the other hand, maybe it's our shared sense of commonality that makes us women. We come in so many different shapes and sizes ...
to study it as a life-long career. A quote by Jared Diamond, known for his book ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’ reads, “Biology i s the science. Evolution is the concept that makes Biology unique”. This is a statement I revere, because the understanding of evolution has allowed me to ...
(CSCs). In 1997, the discovery of CD133 was reported by two independent research teams studying the cell biology of murine neuroepithelial progenitor cells [1] and the surface markers of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) [2,3]. Soon after, CD133 protein was detected in ...
hospital setting, I was interested in getting to know them from an ecological perspective, so I began undergraduate research at my university with Dr. Joe Butler. Having the opportunity to learn about them from a whole new perspective, I was captivated and it sent me down this new career ...
[96]. Current research confirms that spinach plants activate antioxidant enzymes against the heavy metals present in the soil to cope with the stress conditions. In contrast, plants grown in contaminated soils inoculated withB. aeriusandB. cereusbacterial strains showed lower levels of antioxidant ...
their more likely fate isunderemployment.According toJaison Abel and Richard Dietz’s research on employment patterns following the Great Recession, our new college grads are likely to face a job market in which fewer of the jobs that are available (compared to the pre-COVID era) will require...
(Fig.5A). Similar predicted methylation patterns and performance of Nanopolish, Megalodon, and DeepSignal for NA12878 were observed by recent research [43]. In contrast, the DNA methylation-level histogram of Tombo and METEORE showed multiple peaks between 0 and 100% methylation levels, rather ...
Walker’s research offered them a comforting one: to help treat Alzheimer’s and other age-related diseases. “Is there a small piece that Gabby could present to help people solve these awful diseases?” John asks. “Thinking about it, it’s like, no, that’s for other people, that’s...