Bridging the gap: From petri dish to patient - Advancements in translational drug discovery by Mohamed El-Tanani, Syed Arman Rabbani, Yahia El-Tanani, Ismail I. Matalka, Ikramy A. Khalil

“…The article aims to showcase how these technologies improve the predictability of drug performance in human bodies and significantly speed up the drug development process. …”
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Reprezentacje obiektów przyrodniczych z dziecięcej perspektywy by Monika Wiśniewska-Kin, Eliza Rybska

“…The presented research showed also that children make conceptualization mainly through personal experiences and that when describing animals, children focus on observable animal activity and behavior, as well as animal appearance, size, the environment of living and the relation with humans. …”
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Gut Microbiota and its Metabolites in Pathogenesis of NAFLD by M. S. Reshetova, O. Yu. Zolnikova, V. T. Ivashkin, K. V. Ivashkin, S. A. Appolonova, T. L. Lapina

“…Metabolites of microbial origin are important biological molecules involved in many specific reactions of the human body. This literature review presents the results of recent studies in the field of metabolomics in patients with NAFLD. …”
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Microbiome interactions and their ecological implications at the Salton Sea by H Freund*, M Maltz*, M Swenson, T Topacio, V Montellano, W Porter, E Aronson

“…Although the Salton Sea was once a thriving destination for humans and wildlife, it has now degraded to the point of ecosystem collapse. …”
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The emergence of cell-based protein arrays to test for polyspecific off-target binding of antibody therapeutics by Diana M. Norden, Carmen T. Navia, Jonathan T. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Doranz

“…Cell-based protein arrays assess binding across the full human membrane proteome, ~6,000 membrane proteins each individually expressed in their native structural configuration within live or unfixed cells. …”
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Une approche multidisciplinaire de la fabrique des paysages dans la longue durée dans les forêts de Blois, Russy, Boulogne et Chambord (Loir-et-Cher) by Aude Crozet, Clément Laplaige, Xavier Rodier

“…The archaeological work conducted in these forests focuses on all kinds of vestiges preserved by the cover of vegetation as well as human forestry activities (Dupouey et al., 2007). …”
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Sickness, Hygienic Education and Village Practice: Tuberculosis in the Life of a Cobbler by Tuija Saarinen

“…Sickness and health are thus in a central position in human life. Tuberculosis, for example, was formerly a common disease in Finland. …”
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Gene fitness landscapes of Vibrio cholerae at important stages of its life cycle. by Heather D Kamp, Bharathi Patimalla-Dipali, David W Lazinski, Faith Wallace-Gadsden, Andrew Camilli

“…Vibrio cholerae has evolved to adeptly transition between the human small intestine and aquatic environments, leading to water-borne spread and transmission of the lethal diarrheal disease cholera. …”
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Development and preclinical testing of a naloxone prodrug depot for extended protection against opioid overdose by Hala Aldawod, Arjun D. Patel, Rasha Emara, Dengpan Liang, Joshua S. Ho, Toufiq Ul Amin, Md Tariqul Haque Tuhin, Abdulmalek Balgoname, Avishan Kiani, Jumana M. Ajlouny, Melanie A. Felmlee, Miki S. Park, Bhaskara R. Jasti, William K. Chan, James A. Uchizono, Mamoun M. Alhamadsheh

“…Preclinical studies demonstrated efficacy in rat overdose models and achieved monkey naloxone levels matching effective human therapeutic levels. Although monkey efficacy was not assessed, combined rat efficacy and monkey pharmacokinetics suggest strong potential for successful human translation.…”
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A Mosquito Culex cedecei Stone and Hair (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) by Kristin Elizabeth Sloyer, Nathan Daniel Burkett-Cadena

“…Culex cedecei is therefore considered a vector of a zoonotic pathogen that can affect human health. …”
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A distant TANGO1 family member promotes vitellogenin export from the ER in C. elegans by Jimmy H. Mo, Chao Zhai, Kwangsek Jung, Yan Li, Yonghong Yan, Meng-Qiu Dong, Ho Yi Mak

“…Summary: Vitellogenin is thought to share a common ancestor with human apolipoprotein B (ApoB) for systemic lipid transport. …”
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Suppression of monocyte and neutrophil function by recombinant IL-2 by Susan E. Smith, Gayle D. Warren, Yee-Hing Thong, Joe G. McCormack

“…We now describe the effects of human recombinant IL-2 on human neutrophil and monocyte functions related to mobility, phagocytosis, glucose uptake, respiration and degranulation. …”
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Exploring historical maps for insights into ecosystem extent and condition: a case study landscape in Poland by Marta Sylla, Iga Kołodyńska, Piotr Krajewski

“…The least natural areas were scarce and so human pressure and impacts were lower. Humans have significantly influenced this landscape by expanding mineral extraction activities and built-up areas. …”
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Design and Fabrication of an Improved Vise by Twinamatsiko Smith

“…Human effort applied to clamp the job varies from operator to operator. …”
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Under the Skies of Olympus: Three Types of Divine Landscapes in the Homeric Hymns by Vaiva Vasiliauskaitė

“… The paper discusses the landscapes of Apollo, Hermes, Pan, and Demeter in the Homeric hymns, analysing how particular landscape representations articulate the gods’ functions and identities, their relationship to humanity and the structure of the Olympic cosmos. It is argued that an in-depth examination of the representation of landscape in Ancient literature reveals patterns of representation that contribute to a deeper understanding of the religious worldview of the ancient Greeks. …”
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The Prognostic Value of Adaptive Nuclear Texture Features from Patient Gray Level Entropy Matrices in Early Stage Ovarian Cancer by Birgitte Nielsen, Fritz Albregtsen, Wanja Kildal, Vera M. Abeler, Gunnar B. Kristensen, Håvard E. Danielsen

“…Background: Nuclear texture analysis gives information about the spatial arrangement of the pixel gray levels in a digitized microscopic nuclear image, providing texture features that may be used as quantitative tools for prognosis of human cancer. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prognostic value of adaptive nuclear texture features in early stage ovarian cancer.…”
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The Food Recall Manual by Douglas L. Archer, Keith R. Schneider, W. Steve Otwell, Renee M. Goodrich, Chris Thomas

“… The Food Science and Human Nutrition Department of the University of Florida has assembled this manual to assist food businesses, at all parts of the food chain, in learning to conduct rapid and effective product recalls. …”
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Review essay: On the state of the debate in ecological theology by E. M. Conradie

“… This review essay assesses the state of the debate on a Christian Ecological Theology with specific reference to the important volume of essays Christianity and ecology: seeking the well-being of earth and humans edited by Dieter Hessel and Rosemary Ruether (2000). …”
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Dezbatere de carte Cătălin Zamfir, România în criză, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2023 by Nicu Gavriluță, Cristina Gavriluță, Ștefan Cojocaru, Adrian Netedu, Nicoleta Ungureanu, Cristina Tofan, Sergiu Bortoș

“… The "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iasi, the Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, the Department of Sociology, Social Assistance and Human Resources hosted on 31st of October 2024 a book debate on the Cătălin Zamfir volume, Romania in crisis, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest, 2023. …”
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L’histoire des ordures : de la préhistoire à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle by Marine Béguin

“…However, the awareness of the necessity of an effective management of garbage appeared only lately in human history. The objective of this article is to present, through an essentially bibliographical approach, the way the people lived and managed their waste since the Prehistory until at the end of the XIXth century.…”
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