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Helen Strongman and colleagues investigate the health and demographic factors associated with excess mortality during, as compared to before, the COVID-19 pandemic.
/PRNewswire/ -- The four designated shale oil prospecting wells in the East Exploratory Area of Shengli Oilfield of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation...
Have you experienced fever or swelling in the morning with stiff or sore joints? The cause of rheumatoid arthritis – a chronic inflammatory joint disease that can occur in various joints such as hands, wrists, feet and ankles – is still unknown. As s
E-Mail IMAGE: The E. coli chromosome was split into three 1-Mb chromosomes, and the chromosome was used for genome implantation. view more Credit: Rikkyo University Escherichia coli ( E. coli) genome, consisting of 4.6 million base pairs of a single circular DNA, is too large to manipulate following the extraction and transfer to other bacteria. In the present study, a group of Rikkyo University researchers led by Assistant Professor Takahito Mukai and Professor Masayuki Su'etsugu has succeeded in splitting the E.coli genome into tripartite-genome of 1 million base pairs per geno...
Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and were able to grow chimeric embryos for a significant period of time--up to 20 days. The research, despite its ethical concerns, has the potential to provide new insights into developmental biology and evolution. It also has implications for developing new models of human biology and disease. The work appears April 15 in the journal Cell. "As we are unable to conduct certain types of experiments in humans, it is essential that we ...