Abstract Background Horizontal gene transfer contributes to bacterial evolution through mobilising genes across various taxonomical boundaries.It is frequently mediated by mobile genetic elements (MGEs), which may capture, maintain, and rearrange mobile genes and co-mobilise them between bacteria, causing horizontal gene co-transfer (HGcoT).This ph
Category: Sports; Ankle Introduction/Purpose: Surgical treatment remains the standard of care for active patients with acute midsubstance Achilles tendon ruptures.Clinical decisions must be made, often under circumstances of limited resources.The objective of our study was to describe a reduced cost minimally invasive surgical technique.The use of
Abstract Background CRISPR-based programmable transcriptional activators (PTAs) are used in plants for rewiring gene networks.Better tuning of their activity in a time and dose-dependent manner should allow precise control of gene expression.Here, we report the optimization of a Copper Inducible system called CI-switch for conditional gene activati
A new record of lithistid demosponges is reported from a western Sardinian karstic cave.The new specimen matches the trait of the genus Neophrissospongia (Corallistidae) for an ectosomal skeleton of radial dichotriaenes, a choanosomal skeleton as a network of dicranoclone desmas, and streptaster/amphiaster microscleres with short spiny rays bearing