Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rapid expansion in vaccine research focusing on exploiting the novel discoveries on the pathophysiology, genomics, and molecular biology of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.Although the current preventive measures are primarily socially distancin
Epigenetics and Heart Development
Epigenetic control of gene expression during cardiac development and disease has been a topic of intense research in recent years.Advances in experimental methods to study DNA accessibility, transcription factor occupancy, and chromatin conformation capture technologies have helped identify regions of chromatin structure that play a role in regulat
Palynological analysis of faecal matter in African Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Elephantidae) at Omo Forest Reserve, Nigeria
The factors affecting African Forest Elephants include food availability, demand for ivory and changes in land-use.In order to survive, they tend to traverse considerable distances in search of food; on such occasions they are trapped and killed for their ivory.This present study is aimed at assessing the faecal matter of elephants, and at providin
Designing a novel tomato ideotype for future cultivation in space manned missions
Introduction: Methods for production of fresh, health food are needed in view of long-term, deep-space manned missions.To this end, crops tailored for better performance under non-terrestrial conditions may be obtained by the exploitation of biochemical patterns related to specialized metabolites known to confer protection against environmental cha
Effects of Exogenous Ethanol Treatment in Nutrient Solution on Growth and Secondary Metabolite Contents of Three Herb Species in an Indoor Vertical Farming System
This study aimed to explore the possibility of exogenous ethanol treatment as a Pressure Cooker technology to regulate the growth and the synthesis of secondary metabolites in herbaceous plants.After transplantation, sweet basil, Korean mint, and sweet wormwood were cultivated in a controlled vertical farming system and consistently exposed to exog