DEVELOPING STANDARDS FOR THE MICROBIOME FIELD

Developing standards for the microbiome field

Abstract Background Effective standardisation of methodologies to analyse the microbiome is essential to the entire microbiome community.Despite the microbiome field being established for over a decade, there are no accredited or certified reference materials available to the wider community.In this study, we describe the development of the first r

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Pararhabdepyris Gorbatovskii (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), new to Korea and the first host record of Allobethylus Kieffer

Pararhabdepyris Gorbatovskii (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) is newly recognized from South Korea.The genus can be easily recognized from other genera in Scleroderminae by having the head wider than it is long, the antenna with 10 flagellomeres, the clypeus with short projected median lobe, and the metasomal tergite here II longer than the combined lengt

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Role of Polyamines in Immune Cell Functions

The immune system is remarkably responsive to a myriad of invading microorganisms and provides continuous surveillance against tissue damage and developing tumor cells.To achieve these diverse functions, multiple soluble and cellular components must react in an orchestrated cascade of events to control the specificity, magnitude and persistence of

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Pediatric femoral shaft fracture requiring revision surgery for nonunion associated with vitamin D and K deficiencies: a case report

Abstract Background Nonunion of femoral shaft fractures in children is rare, and there is no clear treatment protocol.In this case click here report, a pediatric femoral shaft fracture that developed in nonunion due to vitamin deficiency after osteosynthesis, which was successfully treated with vitamin augmentation and replacement with a rigid ante

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