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Interspecies study of the enteric nervous system and related pathologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The enteric nervous system (ENS) modulates a number of digestive functions including well known ones, i.e. motility, secretion, absorption and blood flow, along with other critically relevant processes, i.e. immune responses of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, gut microbiota and epithelial barrier . The characterization of the anatomical aspects of the
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Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society
A bite from the Aedes aegypti mosquito can transmit pathogenic viruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. While public health campaigns have historically focused on eliminating this vector species, a project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, proposes to ...
Luísa Reis Castro
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FERAL WOOL. Designing with a vibrant matter with care and cosmoecological perspective in times of troubled abundance

open access: yesInmaterial
Feral Wool is an ongoing research-through-design project that takes place in the South Tyrol region in Italy. It explores the concept of overflowing and overlooked local wool that becomes a troubled abundance due to the global dynamics of the ...
Seçil Uğur Yavuz   +2 more
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On Vegetal Geography: Perspectives on Critical Plant Studies, Placism, and Resilience

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies
This study contributes to the emerging subdiscipline of geography, defined as vegetal geography, expanding beyond Critical Plant Studies’ focus on place-based interactions with and adaptations to human systems and ecologies.
Rivas Virgilio Aquino, Biana Hazel T.
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Forum. Indygenizowanie przyszłości

open access: yesTeksty Drugie
The texts included in the forum follow the guiding idea of indigenizing the future, but employ it in different ways by offering reflections on interspecies relationships, animism, agency, and resistance to colonial power structures.
Ewa Domańska   +5 more
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