Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística: Recent submissions
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Chiari malformation type I: a case-control association study of 58 developmental genes
Chiari malformation type I (CMI) is a disorder characterized by hindbrain overcrowding into an underdeveloped posterior cranial fossa (PCF), often causing progressive neurological symptoms. The etiology of CMI remains ...
Facilitating the automatic characterisation, classification and description of biological images with the VisionBioShape package for R
Here, we present the VisioBioshapeR package for R [R Core, 2014]. This new library is a comprehensive, multifunctional toolbox designed to automatically analyse biological images. The package extends other common libraries ...
El sol té efectes negatius retardats sobre la pell
PRENDRE EL SOL POT SER UNA ACTIVITAT molt plaent. Tanmateix, la radiació ultraviolada pot esdevenir carcinògena, atesa la seva capacitat d'induir mutacions en l'ADN, motiu pel qual sempre s'ha de prendre amb moderació i ...
Long Non-Coding RNAs As Potential Novel Prognostic Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cause of death worldwide. Surgery is usually the first line of treatment for patients with CRC but many tumors with similar histopathological features show significantly ...
Jane Goodall
Hi ha qui els veu com una versió caricaturesca, o fins i tot grotesca, de la humanitat: uns éssers de moviments desmanegats que amb alguns dels seus comportaments envileixen els nostres aparentment sublims i altisonants ...
Assessment of transcript reconstruction methods for RNA-seq
We evaluated 25 protocol variants of 14 independent computational methods for exon identification, transcript reconstruction and expression-level quantification from RNA-seq data. Our results show that most algorithms are ...
Inversion evolutionary rates might limit the experimental identification of inversion breakpoints in non-model species
Chromosomal inversions are structural changes that alter gene order but generally not gene content in the affected region. In Drosophila, extensive cytological studies revealed the widespread character of inversion ...
Virtual meeting, real and sound science: report of the 17 th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020)
The Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD) organized its 17th meeting in November 2020 (herein referred to as SEBD2020).This meeting, originally programmed to take place in the city of Bilbao, was forced onto an ...
Exacerbated response to oxidative stress in the Retinitis Pigmentosa CerklKD/KO mouse model triggers retinal degeneration pathways upon acute light stress
The retina is particularly vulnerable to genetic and environmental alterations that generate oxidative stress and cause cellular damage in photoreceptors and other retinal neurons, eventually leading to cell death. <em>CERKL ...
Els robots socials evolucionen per cooperar
Una de les fites de la robòtica és dissenyar robots capaços d'aprendre a cooperar i especialitzar-se de manera autoorganitzada, de manera que amb un mateix disseny mecànic i programari bàsic es puguin adaptar a diferents ...
La improvisació musical, sota el microscopi.
UNA DE LES FORMES MÉS COMPLEXES de comportament creatiu és la improvisació musical, tan típica d'alguns estils com el jazz i el freestyle rap, però que tanmateix es pot aplicar a qualsevol estil, des de la música clàssica ...
Manual d'instruccions del cervell humà
Durant dècades s'ha discutit si el cervell infantil és una mena de taula rasa que no té cap condicionament previ i que, per tant, l'educació forja tots els aspectes del caràcter, incloent-hi les habilitats i les aptituds ...
Host-dependent editing of SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 patients
A common trait among RNA viruses is their high capability to acquire genetic variability due to viral and host mechanisms. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis enables the deep study of the viral quasispecies in samples ...
Predicting Bacterial Diversity in European Croplands Using Earth Observation and Meteorological Data
In this paper we explore models predicting soil bacterial diversity to: 1) spectral indices derived from optical satellite remote sensing; and 2) meteorological variables. We computed alpha and beta diversity indices using ...
PlanExp: intuitive integration of complex RNA-seq datasets with planarian omics resources
Motivation: There is an increasing amount of transcriptomic and genomic data available for planarians with the advent of both traditional and single-cell RNA sequencing technologies. Therefore, exploring, visualizing and ...
Reflexiones sobre el miedo en el siglo XXI: Filosofía, política, genética y evolución
La actualidad y los acontecimientos de las últimas décadas han puesto de manifiesto la importancia del miedo en la vida pública. El miedo como tal y sus factores desencadenantes están presentes en la prensa, el discurso ...
A two-question tool to assess the risk of repeated falls in the elderly
Introduction Older adults' perception of their own risk of fall has never been included into screening tools. The goal of this study was to evaluate the predictive validity of questions on subjects' self-perception of their ...
Els espermatozoides dels ratolins promiscus corren més
Les diferents espècies de ratolí es distingeixen, entre altres característiques, per la seva estratègia reproductora. El ratolí cérvol, per exemple, que viu a Amèrica del Nord, és molt promiscu. Per aparellar-se organitza ...
La química addictiva de l'amor
El títol d'una coneguda pel·lícula espanyola es preguntava 'Per què en diuen amor quan volen dir sexe'. Segurament però, els resultats d'alguns treballs científics recents obligaran a reformar aquesta pregunta i dir: 'Per ...
The pioneer factor Smed-gata456-1 is required for gut cell differentiation and maintenance in planarians
How adult stem cells differentiate into different cell types remains one of the most intriguing questions in regenerative medicine. Pioneer factors are transcription factors that can bind to and open chromatin, and are ...
