Page 15 - Research Article News Today

97% of Earth’s land area may no longer be ecologically intact Only between 2% and 3% of the Earth’s terrestrial surface can be considered ecologically intact, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. This percentage is drastically lower than past assessments, which estimated it to be between 20% and 40%, because it factored in loss of species from intact habitat as well as reduced populations of species. The findings show how...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Schematic of our proposed evolutionary history of the nCoV clade and putative events leading to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. view more  Credit: MacLean OA, et al. (2021), Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats created a generalist virus and highly capable human pathogen. PLoS Biol 19(3): e3001115. CC-BY... How much did SARS-CoV-2 need to change in order to adapt to its new human host? In a research article published in the open access journal PLOS Bio...

Three Days Online Certificate Course On Art Of Contesting Criminal Matters By Legal Expatiate [12th To 14th March 2021] Share This - x Legal Expatiate is an initiative to bring together the best talent of this country and to infuse them with a nation-first attitude. An active forum of researchers, professionals, and students where they arrange webinars of Senior Advocates, High Court Judges and other luminaries, where they arrange various competitions like Research Article Writing Compet...

Financial Express (India) – Mutation in spike protein makes coronavirus eight times more infectious, study finds The Hindu Business Line (India) – Mutations in Covid-19 spike protein make it 8 times more contagious Swiss Info – A mutation in SARS-Cov-2 protein S makes it eight times more infectious (translated) Renascença (Portugal) – Covid-19: viruses can be up to eight times more infectious due to protein mutation (translated) Sinembargo (México) – Mutation in the spike protein of...

Credit: Michele Blackwell on Unsplash, CC0 Genetically determined vitamin D levels do not have a large effect on risk of type 1 diabetes in Europeans, according to a study published 25th February 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Despoina Manousaki from the CHU Sainte Justine and the University of Montreal, Canada and colleagues. Type 1 diabetes is a relatively common autoimmune disease that inflicts substantial lifelong illness and significant economic burden. Its incidence is ...

Credit: Gabriel Chamie Universal HIV testing with linkage to treatment and prevention may be a promising approach to accelerate reductions in new infections in generalized epidemic settings, according to a study published February 9th, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Catherine Koss of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues. Despite major gains in HIV testing and treatment, in 2019 there were 1.7 million new HIV infections, of which nearly 60% occurred in s...

2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis,” there was a small error in the histogram in Fig. 1B in the main text and in fig. S9B in the supplementary materials caused by a data-processing bug (the x axis started from 0.2, not from zero as labeled), and the calculation of standard deviation (SD) was not fully explained in the figure caption (the caption did not state that the SD was calculated from the data within the range of the y axis). Figure 1B, fig. S9B, and their captions h...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Unhealthy lifestyles, various diseases, stress, and aging can all contribute to an imbalance between the production of ROS and the bodys ability to reduce and eliminate them. The resulting excessive... view more  Credit: National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology. Oxygen is essential for human life, but within the body, certain biological environmental conditions can transform oxygen into aggressively reactive molecules called reactive oxyge...

In the supplementary materials file for the Research Article “[Identification of Integrator-PP2A complex (INTAC), an RNA polymerase II phosphatase][1],” Western blotting with PP2A-C antibody in fig. S7C (third row) was mistakenly placed during manuscript preparation by the authors. The corrected fig. S7C has been updated in the corrected version of the supplementary materials file. The conclusion of fig. S7C is that INTS11 shRNAs efficiently reduce the protein levels of INTS11 but not INTS8 ...

Legal Expatiate is an initiative to bring together the best talent of this country and to infuse them with a nation-first attitude. An active forum of researchers, professionals, and students where ...