Marine heat waves are extreme high temperature events in which sea surface temperatures are abnormally warm and last for days to months. Global warming is making such events more frequent and more intense, with impacts throughout the marine food web, from phytoplankton to top predators. As the basis of the marine food web, phytoplankton supports most of the ocean's primary productivity through photosynthesis, and its changes will affect fishery resources and ocean carbon sinks through cascade effects. The western and central equatorial Pacific has previously been considered to be slightly affected by marine heat waves. The average annual heat wave days in this area are only 22, and the average intensity is only 1.2°C, which is far lower than most sea areas in the world, so it is regarded as a "safe haven" for marine heat waves.
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Modern main banana varieties are highly dependent on vegetative reproduction and have problems such as narrow genetic base and low genetic diversity. There are about 80 species in the Musa family. Different groups show diversity in chromosome base numbers (such as n =11, 10 and 9) and bud color and other traits. They are an ideal group for studying the evolution of plant chromosome structures and the differentiation of floral organ traits. However, there has been a long lack of direct evidence at the genomic and cytogenetic level regarding the evolutionary formation mechanism of these different chromosome base numbers and the intrinsic correlation between chromosome structural variation and flower bud color differentiation.
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Scientists recently discovered various Denisovan remains in Southwest China dating back to the late Middle Pleistocene, including the first Denisovan radius—one of two long bones in the forearm. Denisovans are a genetically identified archaic hominin group believed to have been widely distributed across Asia. However, due to the limited number of fossil remains, especially postcranial bones—those
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Understanding how domestication reshapes brain structure and function remains a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. The hippocampus is a key brain region involved in memory and stress regulation, and it has been thought to undergo "simplification" during domestication. However, the cellular mechanisms underlying these changes remain poorly understood. In a study published in PNAS on Sept
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Coagulation factor XIa (FXIa) is a key protease in the intrinsic coagulation pathway. It plays a central role in pathological thrombosis and has little impact on the normal hemostasis process. It is a safe target for the development of a new generation of anticoagulant drugs.
Liver fibrosis is a common pathological pathway in most chronic liver diseases, and its essence is the excessive deposition of extracellular matrix in the liver. Macrophages play a central regulatory role in the occurrence and regression of liver fibrosis, but their functional selection mechanism between promoting scar formation and driving scar regression has long been unresolved.
Water isotope separation and identification are key technologies in the fields of medicine, chemistry and life sciences. The molecular size and macroscopic physical and chemical properties of water (H 2 O) and heavy water (D 2 O) are highly similar, and their equilibrium adsorption differences in porous media are limited. It is difficult to determine the cause of isotope differences based on the final adsorption amount alone. Therefore, constructing a thin film with oriented narrow channels, moderate frame flexibility, and proton-electron coupling conduction, and collaboratively analyzing the multi-stage transmission process through mass and electrical signals is the key to realizing real-time identification of the confinement behavior of water isotopes.
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In her new leadership role, Chiappinelli will build cancer research programs while continuing her work on how ancient viral DNA can trigger anti-tumor immune responses.
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A University of Minnesota-led multi-institutional research team has discovered a highly potent small molecule that blocks Ebola virus entry by stabilizing the virus's entry protein and provides strong protection when given orally in a preclinical model.
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PET can observe human metabolism and molecular activities and plays an important role in tumor diagnosis and efficacy evaluation. Recently, the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and others have made progress in the field of low-count PET imaging.
The pistil is the female reproductive organ of flowering plants. The stigma at the top is responsible for capturing and identifying pollen, and the style below provides a growth channel for the pollen tube. The presence of a clear, stable boundary between the stigma and style is essential to ensure sexual reproduction in the plant.
Stars mostly form in clusters. Open star clusters on the Milky Way disk are affected by the tidal force of the Milky Way during their long-term evolution, gradually disintegrating and releasing their member stars into the Milky Way disk. Neutron stars, as the remnants of the evolution of massive stars, also originate from star clusters. Currently, thousands of neutron stars acting as pulsars have been discovered in the Milky Way disk. However, astronomers have never directly observed neutron stars entering the Milky Way disk from birth clusters before. As a result, there has been a lack of observational evidence for the evolutionary origin of the neutron star population on the Milky Way disk.
Scientists have recently found that a long‑term dominant diatom in China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project maintains its edge through a mutually reinforced cycle with bacteria , whereas a short‑term dominant species lacks such a close partnership and is far less resilient . The study, led by researchers from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was publish
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