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Optimization of the 16S rRNA sequencing analysis pipeline for studying in vitro communities of gut commensals

iScience, 2022
Summary: While microbial communities inhabit a wide variety of complex natural environments, in vitro culturing enables highly controlled conditions and high-throughput interrogation for generating mechanistic insights.
Arianna I. Celis, Andrés Aranda-Díaz, Rebecca Culver, Katherine Xue, David Relman, Handuo Shi, Kerwyn Casey Huang   +6 more
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Editorial Introduction [PDF]

, 2012
This issue of Survey Research Methods contains four papers that were presented at the ITACOSM11 conference held in Pisa, Italy, June 27-29, 2011. ITACOSM is an Italian scientific conference on the development, testing, and application of survey sampling ...
Chambers, Raymond
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Endonuclease-based genotyping of the RBM as a method to track the emergence or evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants

iScience, 2021
Summary: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemics, variants have emerged. Some of them display increased transmissibility and/or resistance to immune response.
Eva Lopez, Margot Barthélémy, Cécile Baronti, Shirley Masse, Alessandra Falchi, Fabien Durbesson, Renaud Vincentelli, Xavier de Lamballerie, Rémi Charrel, Bruno Coutard   +9 more
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Cell culture systems for isolation of SARS-CoV-2 clinical isolates and generation of recombinant virus

iScience, 2023
Summary: A simple and robust cell culture system is essential for generating authentic SARS-CoV-2 stocks for evaluation of viral pathogenicity, screening of antiviral compounds, and preparation of inactivated vaccines.
Da-Yuan Chen, Jacquelyn Turcinovic, Shuchen Feng, Devin J. Kenney, Chue Vin Chin, Manish C. Choudhary, Hasahn L. Conway, Marc Semaan, Brianna J. Close, Alexander H. Tavares, Scott Seitz, Nazimuddin Khan, Sebastian Kapell, Nicholas A. Crossland, Jonathan Z. Li, Florian Douam, Susan C. Baker, John H. Connor, Mohsan Saeed   +18 more
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The 3D Reconstruction of Pocillopora Colony Sheds Light on the Growth Pattern of This Reef-Building Coral

iScience, 2020
Summary: Coral reefs are formed by living polyps, and understanding the dynamic processes behind the reefs is crucial for marine ecosystem restoration.
Yixin Li, Tingyu Han, Kun Bi, Kun Liang, Junyuan Chen, Jing Lu, Chunpeng He, Zuhong Lu   +7 more
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A dual SHOX2:GFP; MYH6:mCherry knockin hESC reporter line for derivation of human SAN-like cells

iScience, 2022
Summary: The sinoatrial node (SAN) is the primary pacemaker of the heart. The human SAN is poorly understood due to limited primary tissue access and limitations in robust in vitro derivation methods.
Zaniar Ghazizadeh, Jiajun Zhu, Faranak Fattahi, Alice Tang, Xiaolu Sun, Sadaf Amin, Su-Yi Tsai, Mona Khalaj, Ting Zhou, Ryan M. Samuel, Tuo Zhang, Francis A. Ortega, Miriam Gordillo, Dorota Moroziewicz, Daniel Paull, Scott A. Noggle, Jenny Zhaoying Xiang, Lorenz Studer, David J. Christini, Geoffrey S. Pitt, Todd Evans, Shuibing Chen   +21 more
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The Rigor and Transparency Index Quality Metric for Assessing Biological and Medical Science Methods

iScience, 2020
Summary: The reproducibility crisis is a multifaceted problem involving ingrained practices within the scientific community. Fortunately, some causes are addressed by the author's adherence to rigor and reproducibility criteria, implemented via ...
Joe Menke, Martijn Roelandse, Burak Ozyurt, Maryann Martone, Anita Bandrowski   +4 more
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The social, cosmopolitanism and beyond [PDF]

, 2009
First, this article will outline the metaphysics of ‘the social’ that implicitly and explicitly connects the work of lassical and contemporary cosmopolitan sociologists as different as Durkheim, Weber, Beck and Luhmann. In a second step, I will show that
Appiah, K.A., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Brennan, P., Callon, M., Castoriadis, C., Cheah, P., Deleuze, G., Durkheim, É., Durkheim, É., Durkheim, É., Durkheim, É., Foucault, M., Gasché, R., Grosz, E., Heidegger, M., Hetherington, K., Kant, I., Latour, B., Latour, B., Law, J., Law, J., Lee, N.M., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Michael Schillmeier, Simmel, G., Stengers, I., Tarde, G., Tarde, G., Tarde, G., Tarde, G., Urry, J., von Foerster, H., Weber, M., Whitehead, A.N.   +40 more
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Crossing the interdisciplinary divide : political science and biological science [PDF]

, 2010
This article argues that interdisciplinary collaboration can offer significant intellectual gains to political science in terms of methodological insights, questioning received assumptions and providing new perspectives on subject fields.
Grant, Wyn, Greaves, Justin
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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, Yingying Chen, Tao Jiang, Xueyan Jia, Hui Gong, Xiangning Li   +5 more
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