Predicting and managing resources in a changing climate requires an understanding of plant-accessible subsurface water storage.
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Optic Imaging to Understand the Healing of Diabetic Wounds
A team of North American researchers demonstrated a label-free and more direct way to observe and quantify microvascular and metabolic healing mechanisms, and the biological response to a topical treatment, utilizing a multimodal microscope equipped with OCT and FLIM.
Ann NY Acad Sci Special Issue: The Year in Diabetes and Obesity
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences has published this year’s installment of the annual reviews series The Year in Diabetes and Obesity, edited by Rexford Ahima (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).
Regulating Gene Expression: DNA Provides a Twist
DNA conformation can regulate gene expression, as discussed by Olga Zaytseva and Leonie Quinn in a review in BioEssays.
How Did the Complex Nervous Systems of Animals Evolve?
Genomics, and molecular and cellular biology have recently revealed fundamental similarities between embryonic nervous system development in echinoderms and vertebrate neural development, suggesting a common origin for the nervous systems of all animals.
Laser Spectroscopy Diagnoses Freshness and Fertilization of Hen Egg
A team of Chinese researchers used a GASMAS optical spectroscopy technique to study the degree of freshness of unfertilized eggs and to distinguish unfertilized eggs from fertilized eggs.
Special Issue: Biochemistry of Protein‐Protein and Protein‐Lipid Interactions: Applications to Biotechnology
Special Issue: Biochemistry of Protein‐Protein and Protein‐Lipid Interactions: Applications to Biotechnology
Hematopoiesis in the Bone Marrow Microenvironment: Of Cells, their Interactions, and Therapeutic Opportunities
Recent findings on the roles and identity of the bone marrow microenvironment and how these niches might be targeted in the case of diseases are discussed.
Disorder Brings Order: Membraneless Organelles and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
An excellent resource to learn about proteinaceous membraneless organelles is provided in a review in Proteomics.
The Devil Fights Back: How the Tasmanian Devil Adapts to Transmissible Cancer
In their review in BioEssays, Beata Ujvari and colleagues review how the transmissible cancer termed ‘devil facial tumor disease’ affects life history adaptations in Tasmanian devils.
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