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Ecosystem‐Centered Robot Design: Toward Ecoresorbable Sustainability Robots (ESRs)

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Robots exploring natural ecosystems can support monitoring and conservation, but must adopt ecosystem‐centered design to avoid pollution, waste, and damage. This review proposes guidelines for co‐designing ecoresorbable sustainability robots (ESRs), uniting materials, robotics, and ecological contexts in a single framework.
Tülin Yılmaz Nayır, Yuan Fang, Consuelo Contreras, Andrew K. Schulz, Florian Hartmann   +4 more
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High throughput screening and identification of coagulopathic snake venom proteins and peptides using nanofractionation and proteomics approaches.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease that results in a variety of systemic and local pathologies in envenomed victims and is responsible for around 138,000 deaths every year.
Julien Slagboom, Marija Mladić, Chunfang Xie, Taline D Kazandjian, Freek Vonk, Govert W Somsen, Nicholas R Casewell, Jeroen Kool   +7 more
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Evaluation of Antifungal Activity of Naja pallida and Naja mossambica Venoms against Three Candida Species

Toxins, 2020
In contrast to comprehensively investigated antibacterial activity of snake venoms, namely crude venoms and their selected components, little is known about antifungal properties of elapid snake venoms. In the present study, the proteome of two venoms of
Ewelina Kuna, Aleksandra Bocian, Konrad K. Hus, Vladimir Petrilla, Monika Petrillova, Jaroslav Legath, Anna Lewinska, Maciej Wnuk   +7 more
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The evolution and structure of snake venom phosphodiesterase (svPDE) highlight its importance in venom actions

eLife, 2023
For decades, studies of snake venoms focused on the venom-ome-specific toxins (VSTs). VSTs are dominant soluble proteins believed to contribute to the main venomous effects and emerged into gene clusters for fast adaptation and diversification of snake ...
Cheng-Tsung Pan, Chien-Chu Lin, I-Jin Lin, Kun-Yi Chien, Yeong-Shin Lin, Hsiao-Han Chang, Wen-Guey Wu   +6 more
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Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Many fish use a set of pharyngeal jaws in their throat to aid in prey capture and processing, particularly of large or complex prey. In this study—combining dissection, CT scanning, histology, and performance testing—we demonstrate a novel use of pharyngeal teeth in the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), a species for which pharyngeal jaw anatomy had ...
Benjamin Flaum, Michael J. Blumer, Mason N. Dean, Laura J. Ekstrom   +3 more
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A Strategy for Efficient Preparation of Genus-Specific Diagnostic Antibodies for Snakebites

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
As said by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, “Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you’ve never heard of.” Listed as a priority neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization, snakebite envenoming (SBE) kills in
Chengbo Long, Chengbo Long, Feilong Wu, Feilong Wu, Qiumin Lu, Qiumin Lu, Bing Xie, Chuanbin Shen, Jiayao Li, Yanling Deng, Ping Liang, Yongzhi Yu, Ren Lai, Ren Lai   +13 more
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Micro/nanorobots for detecting and eliminating biological and chemical warfare agents

BMEMat, EarlyView.
Fuel‐powered and field‐driven micro/nanorobots provide a cutting‐edge platform to safeguard national security and defense. This review reports the latest research progress in micro/nanorobots in sensing and detoxifying biological and chemical warfare agents.
Song Li, Huaijuan Zhou, Di Shi, Zdeněk Sofer, Jinhua Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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Coral snake venoms: mode of action and pathophysiology of experimental envenomation

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1987
Coral snakes, the New World Elapidae, are included in the genera Micniroides and Micrurus. The genus Mlcrurus comprises nearly all coral snake species and those which are responsible for human snake-bite accidents.
Oswald Vital Brazil
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Toward a unified understanding of people’s aversion to nature: biophobia

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Human–nature relationships are often framed positively, but research rarely addresses biophobia, the aversion to nature. However, negative relationships with nature are likely to become more widespread following societal and environmental changes, with serious implications for public health and conservation efforts.
Johan Kjellberg Jensen, Anna S Persson, Masashi Soga   +2 more
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