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Low-temperature resin embedding of the whole brain for various precise structures dissection
iScience, 2023 Summary: Resin embedding combined with ultra-thin sectioning has been widely used in microscopic and electron imaging to acquire precise structural information of biological tissues.
Jiaojiao Tian +5 more
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iScience, 2021 Summary: The current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has created a significant threat to global health. While respiratory aerosols or droplets are considered as the main route of human-to-human transmission ...
Daniel Todt +17 more
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Robust induction of functional astrocytes using NGN2 expression in human pluripotent stem cells
iScience, 2023 Summary: Emerging evidence of species divergent features of astrocytes coupled with the relative inaccessibility of human brain tissue underscore the utility of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) technologies for the generation and study of human ...
Martin H. Berryer +15 more
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Antibody-based sex determination of human skeletal remains
iScience, 2023 Summary: Assignment of biological sex to skeletal remains is critical in the accurate reconstruction of the past. Analysis of sex-chromosome encoded AMELX and AMELY peptides from the enamel protein amelogenin underpins a minimally destructive mass ...
Barry Shaw +10 more
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Deterministic chaos theory and forecasting in Social Sciences. Contribution to the discussion [PDF]
, 2018 Forecasting social phenomena may be hampered in many ways. This is because in nature of these phenomena lies strong and multilateral connection with other social phenomena; but not only – also physical and biological (natural) ones.
Donaj, Łukasz
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Maximum tree lifespans derived from public-domain dendrochronological data
iScience, 2023 Summary: The public-domain International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) is an under-utilized dataset to improve existing estimates of global tree longevity.
Franco Biondi +2 more
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Visualization of PS/γ-Secretase Activity in Living Cells
iScience, 2020 Summary: A change in Presenilin (PS)/γ-secretase activity is linked to essential biological events as well as to the progression of many diseases. However, not much is known about how PS/γ-secretase activity is spatiotemporally regulated in cells. One of
Masato Maesako +5 more
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iScience, 2023 Summary: Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) and large extracellular vesicles (lEVs), play vital roles in intercellular communication. We optimized a method that extracts EVs from epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) tissues for the purpose of investigating ...
Shizhen Shen +7 more
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Implementation of environmental recovery training response to biological incidents in a human health degree [PDF]
, 2019 Agents involved in biological incidents and outbreaks of infection can spread easily, so response teams are required to quickly implement a recovery plan to decontaminate and restore the environment impacted by these incidents to minimise public risks. A
Pena, M. A., Pena-Fernandez, A.
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A PEROXO-Tag Enables Rapid Isolation of Peroxisomes from Human Cells
iScience, 2020 Summary: Peroxisomes are metabolic organelles that perform a diverse array of critical functions in human physiology. Traditional isolation methods for peroxisomes can take more than 1 h to complete and can be laborious to implement.
G. Jordan Ray +6 more
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