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Paleontologists and students from McGill University have documented Saskatchewan's first confirmed fossil specimens of ...

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2024年11月19日，中国科学院遗传与发育生物学研究所田烨研究组与白洋研究组在《Aging Cell》杂志在线发表题为“The soil Mycobacterium sp. Promotes Health and Longevity through ...

elegans nematode, to screen for compounds that can stop the growth of amyloid proteins. Through their own screen of over 2,500 compounds, the team found 40 that demonstrate the ability to inhibit ...

elegans and the production of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter important to memory and cognitive function. There is growing ...

elegans that are generated, for example, by PCR fusion 6. If expression constructs were generated by subcloning, constructs may be PCR-amplified without the vector sequence and injected directly ...

Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, is a small roundworm (nematode) usually found in the soil in temperate climates all around the world. It feeds on microorganisms like bacteria and can be most ...