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BiotechnologyTwo Decades of Dendrimers as Versatile MRI Agents: A Tale with and without Metals
A vast number of metallic and non-metallic labels can be conjugated to the dendrimer surface in order to transform them into MRI...
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Life ScienceCharting the Genotype-Phenotype Map: Lessons From the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel
An advanced review recently published in WIREs Developmental Biology summarizes insights about the genetic basis of variation of quantitative traits from the...
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Life ScienceMeasuring Protein-RNA Interactions Inside Living Cells
Methods to capture protein-RNA interactions. Different techniques are required to capture single-stranded (green), double-stranded (blue), and indirect (yellow) RNA interactions. Crosses (X)...
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Life ScienceRNA on the Brain: Emerging Layers of Post-Transcriptional Regulation in Cortical Development
A new review by Lennox et al discuss recent advances in our understanding of post-transcriptional regulation during embryonic cerebral cortex development.
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EnergyAdvances in Plasmon Enhanced Up-Conversion Luminescence Phenomena for Energy Applications
Focusing on the photocatalytic hydrogen production from water, as an energy carrier, several factors need to be considered.
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EnvironmentThe Role of NGOs in China’s Climate Change Governance
The role of NGOs in China’s climate change governance, and in environmental issues more generally, is fundamentally different than that of its...
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EnvironmentClimate Change Enlarging Most Tibetan Lakes
A review on the lake dynamics in the Plateau during the past four decades and an analysis of the contribution of the...
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EnvironmentUnderstanding Urban Water Reliability Amid Changes in Supply and Demand
Drivers of the changing water supply and demand characteristics in the Bay Area, and opportunities to enhance future regional water reliability.
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EnvironmentMediterranean Wetlands: Archaeology, Ecology, Sustainability
Current climatic challenges are driving the rediscovery of the numerous values of wetlands, in terms of climate regulation, but also biodiversity conservation...
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Life ScienceSegmental Arithmetic: Summing Up the Hox Gene Regulatory Network for Hindbrain Development in Chordates
It is important to understand when and how the hindbrain segmentation program evolved. Recent studies have shed some light.