Genome-wide association mapping identifies a new arsenate reductase enzyme critical for limiting arsenic accumulation in plants. by Dai-Yin Chao, Yi Chen, Jiugeng Chen, Shulin Shi, Ziru Chen, Chengcheng Wang, John M Danku, Fang-Jie Zhao, David E Salt

“…Complementation verified the identity of HAC1, and expression in Escherichia coli lacking a functional arsenate reductase confirmed the arsenate reductase activity of HAC1. …”
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Diversity and composition of sponge-associated microbiomes from Korean sponges revealed by full-length 16S rRNA analysis by Myoung-Sook Shin, Inho Yang, Weihong Wang, Hiyoung Kim

“…Our integrative, high-resolution approach not only uncovers remarkable taxonomic and functional diversity, but also provides a valuable genetic resource for future marine natural-product discovery and advances ecological restoration efforts.…”
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HEALTHY NUTRITION AS A SYMBIOSIS OF RATIONAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY by L. Telezhenko, P. Bilenkyi

“…Diets should be selected properly to provide a daily rate of various antioxidants. …”
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Solid-State Nanopore Readout of Programmable DNA and Peptide Nanostructures for Scalable Digital Data Storage by Lihuan Zhao, Jiajun Wang, Lin-Sheng Wu, Xin Zhao

“…Peptide nanostructures are introduced as a data medium via click-chemistry, expanding encoding sources. By integrating a photosensitive PC-linker, this approach endows the data chain with functionalities for encryption and data formatting, enhancing the security and organization of biological information storage. …”
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Place and Role of Large-Scale Farms in Polish Agriculture by Mirkowska Zofia, Ziętara Wojciech

“…Changes in the structure of farms and their areas will be presented against the background of selected European Union (EU) countries. The following EU-15 countries were selected: Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. …”
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Optimization of Cross-Border e-Commerce Logistics Supervision System Based on Internet of Things Technology by Pingping Sun, Lingang Gu

“…First of all, the framework adopts the national certification center to supervise the logistics service platform and logistics service platform to supervise the logistics participants of the secondary supervision system. Then, functions such as swarm intelligence contract, legal anonymous identity authentication, intelligent transaction matching, abnormal data analysis and detection, privacy protection, and traceability are realized under the framework of the supervision system. …”
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Influence of Tear Film Condition in Keratoconus on the Results of Topographic and Tomographic Methods of Corneal Examination. Review by A. Yu. Slonimsky, V. V. Averich, T. S. Mitichkina

“…In case of dry eye syndrome detection, symptomatic treatment allows to minimize instrument measurement errors and increase functional results of the planned surgical intervention.Of particular interest is the impact of dry eye syndrome on the diagnosis and monitoring of keratoconus, as the two conditions often co-occur. …”
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Metagenomic analysis reveals methanogenic and other archaeal genes in the digestive tract of invasive Japanese beetle larvae and associated soil by Helena Avila-Arias, Michael E. Scharf, Ronald F. Turco, Diego J. Jiménez, Audrey Simard, Douglas S. Richmond

“…The presence of the same archaeal features in both soil and JB midgut suggests that the JB midgut archaeome may be environmentally sourced, with more tailored selection of the archaeome occurring in the JB hindgut. …”
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Development of Starter Cultures for Precision Fermentation of Kombucha with Enriched Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) Content by Geun-Hyung Kim, Kwang-Rim Baek, Ga-Eun Lee, Ji-Hyun Lee, Ji-Hyun Moon, Seung-Oh Seo

“…This study focused on developing starter cultures to produce functional kombucha through precision fermentation technology using selected microbial strains newly isolated from food sources. …”
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Greenhouse gas emissions of global construction material production by Seth Kane, Josefine A Olsson, Sabbie A Miller

“…Both construction material production and emissions are primarily driven by structural materials, such as concrete and steel. Material selection can play a key role in reducing emissions in the context of the function, with variation in emissions of structural materials per unit strength between 0.001–0.1 kg CO _2 /kg/MPa and in insulation materials per R -value/thickness of 0.018–0.14 kg CO _2 /kg/(K⋅m ^2 W ^−1 ))). …”
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User Communities — Drivers for Open Innovation by Gunnar Prause, Thomas Thurner

“…Users best judge what will lead to commercial success, and they have long been recognized as a valuable source of knowledge to harvest for future innovation. …”
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Risk Assessment and Prediction of Heavy Metal Pollution in Groundwater and River Sediment: A Case Study of a Typical Agricultural Irrigation Area in Northeast China by Shuang Zhong, Hui Geng, Fengjun Zhang, Zhaoying Liu, Tianye Wang, Boyu Song

“…The areas with typical municipal sewage discharge river and irrigation water function were selected as study sites in northeast China. …”
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rangr: An R package for mechanistic, spatially explicit simulation of species range dynamics by Katarzyna Markowska, Katarzyna Malinowska, Lechosław Kuczyński

“…Several mechanistic, spatially explicit models have been proposed to address this issue, but they do not cover the full range of potential functionalities. We present a new open‐source R package called rangr, which integrates population dynamics and dispersal into a mechanistic virtual species simulator. …”
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A novel method for accelerating surgical wound healing in rabbits by collagen extraction from carp (Cyprinus carpio) fish skin by Shahbaa Kh. Al-Taee

“…The extracted collagen was characterized by low viscosity, transparency, and a watery consistency; the functional groups of collagens were detected using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. …”
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Unraveling the complexities: morpho-physiological and proteomic responses of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) to dual drought and salt stress by Charlie Sithole, Rotondwa Rabelani Sinthumule, Joseph Lesibe Gaorongwe, Oziniel Ruzvidzo, Tshegofatso Bridget Dikobe

“…Catalytic and binding activities were the predominant molecular functions detected across treatments suggesting their central role in stress response. …”
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Transcranial optogenetic brain modulator for precise bimodal neuromodulation in multiple brain regions by Hyogeun Shin, Min-Ho Nam, Seung Eun Lee, Soo Hyun Yang, Esther Yang, Jin Taek Jung, Hyun Kim, Jiwan Woo, Yakdol Cho, Youngsam Yoon, Il-Joo Cho

“…Abstract Transcranial brain stimulation is a promising technology for safe modulation of brain function without invasive procedures. Recent advances in transcranial optogenetic techniques with external light sources, using upconversion particles and highly sensitive opsins, have shown promise for precise neuromodulation with improved spatial resolution in deeper brain regions. …”
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Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Lyme Disease: A Literature Review of Psychiatric and Cognitive Impacts by Gabija Šegždaitė, Odeta Aliukonytė, Kamilė Pociūtė

“…This paper examines the connection between Lyme disease and neuropsychiatric outcomes to improve diagnosis and treatment.Materials and Methods: The PubMed database was searched for scientific literature sources. Publications published in English in 2019–2024 were selected. …”
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Thermodynamics of interaction of inulin complex with water by Yu. A. Maksimenko, O. I. Konnova, I. Yu. Aleksanian

“…Currently, the key trends in the global food market include the rapidly developing functional nutrition industry, which is of great interest to consumers. …”
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Degradation of extracellular polymeric substances shapes microbial community diversity. by Sammy Pontrelli, Kian Bigovic Villi, Andreas Sichert, Julian Trouillon, Adriano Rutz, Zachary C Landry, Simon H Rüdisser, Roman Stocker, Uwe Sauer

“…EPS was produced at similar levels across marine chitin-degrading isolates and seawater communities, underscoring its importance relative to small metabolites. Notably, different sources of EPS were found to select for distinct and diverse microbial communities. …”
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Antimicrobial Potential of Extract from a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolate by Francis Kwaku Dzideh Amankwah, Stephen Yao Gbedema, Yaw Duah Boakye, Marcel Tunkumgmen Bayor, Vivian Etsiapah Boamah

“…Microorganisms are one of the main sources of antimicrobial agents and over 50% of antibiotics currently used in hospitals are metabolites from microbes. …”
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