Establishing a CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing framework in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) by targeting phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene disruption by Kameshwaran Senthil, Maniraj Rathinam, Manisha Parashar, Narasimham Dokka, Shaily Tyagi, Vandana Mathur, Sandhya Sharma, Kishor Gaikwad, Ramcharan Bhattacharya, Rohini Sreevathsa

“…While PCR analysis confirmed T-DNA integration, sequence analysis identified PDS gene mutations. Stability of the phenotype was demonstrated in T1 generation plants of in planta transformation-developed mutants. …”
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Enhanced electrochemical performance of activated carbon derived from Acacia catechu bark by KOH activation for supercapacitor application by Mishra Pawan Kumar, Aryal Sabin, Bhakta Oli Hari, Shrestha Timila, Sapkota Thakur, Shrestha Ram Lal Swagat, Prasad Bhattarai Deval

“…This study outlines the production of activated carbon from the matured bark of Acacia catechu through a sequence of processes, including pre-carbonization, carbonization, and activation at varying temperatures utilizing potassium hydroxide (KOH) as an activating agent. …”
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Rearranging the Bird’s Nest Fungi: molecular review of internal clades in Cyathus (Nidulariaceae, Basidiomycota) by Rhudson Henrique Santos Ferreira da Cruz, Jefferson dos Santos Góis, Paulo Marinho, Iuri Goulart Baseia, Kentaro Hosaka

“…In the phylogenetic analysis, using Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian methods, sequences of ITS and LSU regions from 41 samples of 39 species of Cyathus, 26 were placed with some nomenclatural types. …”
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Self-Assembling Multifunctional Peptide Dimers for Gene Delivery Systems by Kitae Ryu, Gyeong Jin Lee, Ji-yeong Choi, Taewan Kim, Tae-il Kim

“…The multifunctional peptide (MP) consists of cellular penetrating peptide moiety (R8), matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) specific sequence (GPLGV), pH-responsive moiety (H5), and hydrophobic moiety (palmitic acid) (CR8GPLGVH5-Pal). …”
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Fast Low Rank and Sparse Decomposition Based on Greedy Bilateral Smoothing for Infrared Small Target Detection by Yan-Shan Zhang, Ze-Yin Li, Dong-Dong Pang, Lu-Yao Wang, Cheng-Jun Wu, Kang Duan, Jun-Ming Gao

“…The experimental results on eight real infrared sequences demonstrate that the greedy bilateral smoothing exhibits powerful background suppression capability and can achieve higher signal-to-noise ratio gain, while maintaining stable detection performance, even in the presence of different additional noise interferences.…”
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Comparison of Procleix Ultrio Elite and Procleix Ultrio NAT Assays for Screening of Transfusion Transmitted Infections among Blood Donors in India by Rahul Chaurasia, Diptiranjan Rout, Shamsuz Zaman, Kabita Chatterjee, Hem Chandra Pandey, Abhishek Kumar Maurya

“…NAT combines the advantages of direct and highly sequence-specific detection of viral genomes. We analysed the performance of newer Procleix Ultrio Elite (PUE) and Procleix Ultrio assay (PUA) for the screening of the viral markers in our donor population. …”
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Distribution network fault comprehensive identification method based on voltage–ampere curves and deep ensemble learning by Jian Wang, Bo Zhang, Dong Yin, Jinxin Ouyang

“…First, the correlations of the voltage-ampere curves with the fault causes, fault types, and fault distances are analyzed to illustrate the feasibility of using three-phase and zero-sequence voltage-ampere curves as input features. In addition, a multimodal residual network model is developed to extract the fault features using RGB normalization and an attention mechanism. …”
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CRISPR-Cas9 in basic and translational aspects of cancer therapy by Maryam Samareh Salavatipour, Zahra Poursalehi, Negin Hosseini Rouzbahani, Sohaib Mohammadyar, Mohammad Vasei

“…CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering has revolutionized this achievement by successful targeting the DNA molecule and editing its sequence. Since genomic changes are the basis of the birth and growth of many tumors, CRISPR-Cas9 method has been successfully applied to identify and manipulate the genes which are involved in initiating and driving some neoplastic processes. …”
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Identification and expression analysis of the ZF-HD gene family in castor by XU Xingyuan, HUANG Fenglan, ZHANG Chunlan, ZHU Mengyang, CUI Zhiyu, LIU Peng

“…[Objective] The ZF-HD family genes of castor were identified and analyzed by sequence analysis, phylogenetic analysis, promoter and expression pattern analysis, to provide a reference for further study of the function of ZF-HD genes in castor. …”
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Associations between cerebral blood flow and progression of white matter hyperintensities by Siriluk Thammasart, Danielle J. Harvey, Pauline Maillard, Charles DeCarli, Corinne A. Donnay, Gregory J. Wheeler, Audrey P. Fan, Audrey P. Fan

“…IntroductionIn an aging population, white matter hyperintensities (WMHs), observed on FLAIR MRI sequences, are indicators of cognitive decline, motor impairment, and increased vascular risk. …”
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Functional Prediction of Hypothetical Proteins from and Validation of the Predicted Models by Using ROC Curve Analysis by Md. Amran Gazi, Sultan Mahmud, Shah Mohammad Fahim, Mohammad Golam Kibria, Parag Palit, Md. Rezaul Islam, Humaira Rashid, Subhasish Das, Mustafa Mahfuz, Tahmeed Ahmeed

“…The genome of Shigella flexneri was extensively analyzed and found 4,362 proteins among which the functions of 674 proteins, termed as hypothetical proteins (HPs) had not been previously elucidated. Amino acid sequences of all these 674 HPs were studied and the functions of a total of 39 HPs have been assigned with high level of confidence. …”
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Unified Quantile Regression Deep Neural Network with Time-Cognition for Probabilistic Residential Load Forecasting by Zhuofu Deng, Binbin Wang, Heng Guo, Chengwei Chai, Yanze Wang, Zhiliang Zhu

“…At first, a convolutional neural network with multiscale convolution is devised for extracting more behavioral features from the historical load sequence. In addition, a novel periodical coding method marks the model to enhance its ability of capturing regular load pattern. …”
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Ballistic performance of lightweight ceramic-metal composite armour plates under blunt projectile impact by Hasan Aftab Saeed, Yasser Riaz Awan, Hamza Saleem Khan, Abdur Rehman Mazhar, Shahid Aziz, Dong-Won Jung

“…Possibility of single and multi-layered configurations, various potential materials and their sequence and the gap in between makes the design of effective lightweight armour a complicated challenge. …”
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Synthesis of lutetium hydrides at high pressures by Yuan-Ao Peng, Han-Yu Wang, Fu-Hai Su, Pu Wang, Hai-An Xu, Lin Liu, Lun-Xuan Yu, Ross T. Howie, Wan Xu, Eugene Gregoryanz, Xiao-Di Liu

“…We demonstrate that the reaction pathway between H2 and Lu invariably follows the sequence Lu ⟶ LuH2 ⟶ LuH3 and exhibits a notable time dependence. …”
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The Spatiotemporal Variations of Runoff in the Yangtze River Basin under Climate Change by Ziwei Xiao, Peng Shi, Peng Jiang, Jianwei Hu, Simin Qu, Xingyu Chen, Yingbing Chen, Yunqiu Dai, Jianjin Wang

“…On the annual runoff sequence, the upstream runoff has a high consistency and shows an increasing diversity from upper stream to lower stream. …”
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Surrogate Safety Analysis of Pedestrian-Vehicle Conflict at Intersections Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Videos by Peng Chen, Weiliang Zeng, Guizhen Yu, Yunpeng Wang

“…By taking full advantage of the bird’s eye view offered by UAV, this study, as a pioneer work, applied UAV videos for surrogate safety analysis of pedestrian-vehicle conflicts at one urban intersection in Beijing, China. Aerial video sequences for a period of one hour were analyzed. The detection and tracking systems for vehicle and pedestrian trajectory data extraction were developed, respectively. …”
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Exploring the Structural Diversity and Biotechnological Potential of the Rhodophyte Phycolectome by Éllen F. Rodrigues, Flavia Alves Verza, Felipe Garcia Nishimura, Renê Oliveira Beleboni, Cedric Hermans, Kaat Janssens, Maarten Lieven De Mol, Paco Hulpiau, Mozart Marins

“…The increasing number of sequenced Rhodophyte genomes offers the opportunity to further study this rich source of lectins, potentially uncovering new ones with properties significantly different from their terrestrial plant counterparts, thus opening new biotechnological applications. …”
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Molecular identification of chitinase and its function in growth of Odontobutis potamophila by Siyu Lu, Lin Du, Ting Zhang, Dan Wang, Jinjuan Wan, Guoxing Liu, Yuning Hu, Yu Xu, Zhiqiang Xu, Xuguang Li

“…The predicted amino acid sequence of OpCht consisted of a typical catalytic domain and a chitin-binding domain interconnected with a linker region. …”
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Motion feature extraction using magnocellular-inspired spiking neural networks for drone detection by Jiayi Zheng, Jiayi Zheng, Yaping Wan, Xin Yang, Hua Zhong, Minghua Du, Gang Wang, Gang Wang

“…To design and train the MG-SNN, we propose a new backpropagation method called Dynamic Threshold Multi-frame Spike Time Sequence (DT-MSTS), and establish a dataset for the training and validation of MG-SNN, effectively extracting and updating visual motion features. …”
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Targeting of retrovirus-derived Rtl8a/8b causes late-onset obesity, reduced social response and increased apathy-like behaviour by Yoshifumi Fujioka, Hirosuke Shiura, Masayuki Ishii, Ryuichi Ono, Tsutomu Endo, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Yoshikazu Hirate, Hikaru Ito, Masami Kanai-Azuma, Takashi Kohda, Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino, Fumitoshi Ishino

“…Mouse RTL8A/8B proteins are expressed in the prefrontal cortex and hypothalamus and localize to both the nucleus and cytoplasm of neurons, presumably due to the N-terminal nuclear localization signal-like sequence at the N-terminus. An RNAseq study in the cerebral cortex revealed reduced expression of several GABA type A receptor subunit genes in DKO, in particular Gabrb2, which encodes its β2 subunit. …”
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