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Agglomeration Externalities and Technical Efficiency in Pig Production [PDF]

The objective of the paper is to assess the effects of agglomeration on technical efficiency of French pig farms. We use a two-stage method to evaluate the effects of agglomeration on technical efficiency.
Larue, S., Latruffe, Laure
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Root‐Inspired Microneedle Patch With Interlocked Rigid‐Soft Architecture for High Tissue‐Adaptiveness

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A root‐inspired microneedle array patch uses lattice‐based mechanical interlocking to unite rigid microneedles with a flexible substrate. The interlocked rigid–soft architecture improves interfacial bonding, supports stable adhesion on curved and wet tissues under dynamic motion, and provides a versatile platform for robust biointerfacing and future ...
Jongchan Lee, Yeongjun Song, Yonghyun Cho, Hyo In Kim, Dong‐Hyun Youn, Jinbong Park, Seungbeom Choi, Dohyun Kwon, Brian Jun Lee, Sangyul Baik   +9 more
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Lactobacillus‐Loaded Bioadhesive Hydrogel with Prolonged Retention and Microenvironmental Remodeling for Endometrial Repair and Fertility Restoration

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A bioactive adhesive hydrogel capable of long‐term uterine retention (>14 days) and local microenvironment modulation is developed by straightforward integration of α‐lipoic acid, L‐arginine, tannic acid, and Lactobacillus johnsonii, which can markedly enhance endometrial repair and restore fertility in a rat model of endometrial injury.
Lifa Chen, Hui Zhou, Yifei Li, Yi Liang, Yifan Zhang, Huiyu Huang, Qiuxian Xie, Youchen Tang, Huixia Ye, Yu Zhang   +9 more
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Epidemiology and Emerging Trends of Zoonotic Viral Diseases of Pigs in India

Viruses
Pigs serve as critical reservoirs and amplifiers for numerous zoonotic viral diseases, presenting substantial public health challenges in India. This study highlights the epidemiology and emerging trends of key zoonotic viruses associated with pigs ...
Swaraj Rajkhowa, Joyshikh Sonowal, Seema Rani Pegu, Rajib Deb, Vivek Kumar Gupta   +4 more
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Serial Molecular‐Microstructural Multimodal Intravascular Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaques in Mice

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A novel longitudinal molecular and microstructural intravascular imaging approach is developed to study murine atherosclerosis. The technique combines a unique surgical model with a miniaturized multimodal device to detect macrophage activity and lipid simultaneously.
Jiawen Li, Joanne T. M. Tan, Lei Xiang, Jiandi Liu, Ayla Hoogendoorn, Victoria A. Nankivell, Lauren Sandeman, Richard Le, Rouyan Chen, Robert A. McLaughlin, Peter J. Psaltis, Johan W. Verjans, Christina A. Bursill   +12 more
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PAM-flexible SpCas9 variants expand the targeting scope for porcine genome editing and cellular disease modeling

BMC Biotechnology
Background CRISPR-Cas-mediated gene editing has revolutionized life sciences, yet the targeting scope of the widely used SpCas9 is limited by its strict requirement for the NGG protospacer adjacent motif (PAM).
Zhiwei Peng, Wenxin Duan, Yuhang Fan, Qiang Yang, Yu Ye, Yuyun Xing   +5 more
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The Adipose‐Sympathetic Nerve Crosstalk: FSTL1 as an Adipocyte‐Derived Neurotrophic Factor for WAT Browning

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
As a novel adipose‐derived neurotrophic factor, Follistatin‐like 1 is endocytosed by sympathetic neurons primarily via tropomyosin‐related kinase B. This process promotes sympathetic innervation in adipose tissue and norepinephrine release, leading to white adipose tissue browning, enhanced thermogenesis, and anti‐obesity effects in mice.
Xiao‐Wei Jia, Jia‐Xin Liu, Rui‐Ping Wang, Xue‐Qin Wu, Yao Che, Mu‐Chen Wu, Hong‐Wei Shang, Xin Lu, Tao Lu, Lu‐Lu Wang, Chun‐Yan Jiang, Dong‐Liang Fang, Chun Yang, Yan Gao   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting Single‐Cell Perturbation Responses Across Biological Contexts With a Deep Generative Model Integrating Optimal Transport

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Single‐cell perturbation responses are predicted across held‐out biological contexts using scPILOT, a query‐conditioned two‐stage latent response‐transfer framework. A shared latent representation supports cell‐level response estimation by latent optimal transport, followed by Leiden‐localized query‐specific transfer and adaptive weighting.
Jialiang Wang, Ziqi Liu, Zhengqian Zhang, Yikun Cao, Junjun Ren, Peng Cheng, Jingjing Tian, Lingyun Xie, Xin Lu, Zhanwei Du, Yongzhuang Liu   +10 more
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TECTB Variants Reveal Tectorial Membrane Vulnerability in Dominant Non‐Syndromic Hearing Loss

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
TECTB is a non‐collagenous protein of the tectorial membrane – an extracellular matrix of the cochlea. This study identifies dominant missense variants in TECTB linked to human hereditary deafness in two unrelated families. Genetically engineered mice homozygous for one of the variants are profoundly deaf, whereas heterozygous mice have normal hearing ...
Evan B. Hale, Barbara Vona, Richard J. Goodyear, Richard T. Osgood, Jun Shen, Sami S. Amr, Karen Mojica, Michaela A. H. Hofrichter, Jörg Schröder, Sophie Flandin, Paul Gratias, Ricardo Vera‐Monroy, Katherine Callahan, Kerry L. Gudlewski, Rolen Quadros, Masato Ohtsuka, JoAnn McGee, Edward J. Walsh, Cynthia C. Morton, Thomas Haaf, Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, James E. Saunders, Guy P. Richardson, Artur A. Indzhykulian   +23 more
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Microfluidic Gratings for X‐Ray Phase Contrast Imaging

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work establishes a new protocol for the fabrication of X‐ray gratings that exploits the advantages of microfluidics and enables a more inexpensive, faster, and scalable production process. These X‐ray devices are fundamental for implementing X‐ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) in laboratory and clinical settings, yet their costly and complex ...
Alessandro Rossi, Antonio Ferraro, Francesco Coccimiglio, Tiziana Ritacco, Alberto Astolfo, Michele Giocondo, Vincenzo Formoso, Raffaele Giuseppe Agostino, Francesco Iacoviello, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Alessandro Olivo   +10 more
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