Embryonic spinal motor neurons are thought to depend for survival on unidentified factors
secreted both by their peripheral targets and by cells within the central nervous system 1 . The …

Emergence of polyphagous herbivorous insects entails significant adaptation to recognize,
detoxify and digest a variety of host-plants. Despite of its biological and practical importance - …

The binding site for an open-channel blocker, QX-222, at mouse muscle nicotinic
acetylcholine receptors was probed using site-directed mutagenesis, oocyte expression, and …

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has heterogeneous clinical and biological behavior.
Whole-genome and -exome sequencing has contributed to the characterization of the …

Motivation: Insertions play an important role in genome evolution. However, such variants are
difficult to detect from short-read sequencing data, especially when they exceed the paired-…

The problem we study in this paper arises from the washing step of hospital sterilisation
services. Washers in the washing step are capable of handling more than one medical device …

Unmapped reads are often discarded from the analysis of whole-genome re-sequencing,
but new biological information and insights can be uncovered through their analysis. In this …

The faster evolution of X chromosomes has been documented in several species, and results
from the increased efficiency of selection on recessive alleles in hemizygous males and/or …

Identifying the genomic bases of adaptation to novel environments is a long‐term objective
in evolutionary biology. Because genetic differentiation is expected to increase between …

Background Anaesthesiologists may occasionally manage life-threatening operating room (OR)
emergencies. Managing OR emergencies implies real-time analysis of often …