When a chiral dopant is dissolved in an achiral liquid crystal medium, the whole sample
organizes into a helical structure with a characteristic length-scale of the order of microns. The …

This tutorial provides a comprehensive description of the GC-MS-based untargeted
metabolomics workflow including: ethical approval requirement, sample collection and storage, …

Both obesity and being underweight have been associated with increased mortality 1 , 2 .
Underweight, defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≤ 18.5 kg per m 2 in adults and ≤ −2 …

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Ferrarini contributed to conception of this review, literature search and analysis. Ms. Ferrarini …

The human intestine is densely populated by a microbial consortium whose metabolic
activities are influenced by, among others, bifidobacteria. However, the genetic basis of …

The liquid-crystal dimer 1′′, 7′′-bis (4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) heptane (CB7CB)
exhibits two liquid-crystalline mesophases on cooling from the isotropic phase. The high-…

The development of massively parallel sequencing technologies enables the sequencing of
total cDNA (RNA-Seq) to derive accurate measure of individual gene expression, differential …

Bifidobacteria represent one of the dominant groups of microorganisms colonizing the human
infant intestine. Commensal bacteria that interact with a eukaryotic host are believed to …

Interstitial deletions of 7q11.23 cause Williams–Beuren syndrome, one of the best
characterized microdeletion syndromes. The clinical phenotype associated with the reciprocal …

Apple (Malus × domestica) represents an interesting model tree crop for studying fruit
abscission. The physiological fruitlet drop occurring in this species can be easily magnified by …