Cucumber is an economically important crop as well as a model system for sex determination
studies and plant vascular biology. Here we report the draft genome sequence of Cucumis …

Colorectal tumours that are wild type for KRAS are often sensitive to EGFR blockade, but
almost always develop resistance within several months of initiating therapy 1 , 2 . The …

More than 2% of the adult US population harbors a pancreatic cyst. These often pose a difficult
management problem because conventional criteria cannot always distinguish cysts with …

Sterol regulatory element 1 (SRE-1), a decamer (5′-ATC-ACCCCAC-3′) flanking the low
density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor gene, activates transcription in sterol-depleted cells and is …

To investigate the mechanism of inhibition of silver ions on microorganisms, two strains of
bacteria, namely Gram‐negative Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Gram‐positive Staphylococcus …

We report classes of electronic systems that achieve thicknesses, effective elastic moduli,
bending stiffnesses, and areal mass densities matched to the epidermis. Unlike traditional …

The development of noninvasive methods to detect and monitor tumors continues to be a
major challenge in oncology. We used digital polymerase chain reaction–based technologies …

Self-supervised learning (SSL) achieves great success in speech recognition, while limited
exploration has been attempted for other speech processing tasks. As speech signal …

… *Correspondence to: John Pringle, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599–3280, USA †Jürg Bähler and Jian-Qiu Wu contributed equally to this …

Recently, a growing interest has been seen in deep learning-based semantic segmentation.
UNet, which is one of deep learning networks with an encoder-decoder architecture, is …