Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential for water purification
to protect public and environmental health. However, the diversity of microorganisms and …

The study of positive species interactions is a rapidly evolving field in ecology. Despite decades
of research, controversy has emerged as to whether positive and negative interactions …

Swimming microrobots that are energized by external magnetic fields exhibit a variety of
intriguing collective behaviors, ranging from dynamic self-organization to coherent motion; …

Background The prevalence of chronic kidney disease is high in developing countries.
However, no national survey of chronic kidney disease has been done incorporating both …

Structural variations (SVs) and gene copy number variations (gCNVs) have contributed to
crop evolution, domestication, and improvement. Here, we assembled 31 high-quality …

Microplastics are widely identified in aquatic environments, but their impacts on phytoplankton
have not been extensively studied. Here, the responses of Chlorella pyrenoidosa under …

Tea polyphenols (TP) possess many beneficial properties, such as reducing the risk of cancer
and heart diseases, and acting as natural antioxidants for the food industry. At the same …

Wearable textile electronics are highly desirable for realizing personalized health
management. However, most reported textile electronics can either periodically target a single …

Gossypium hirsutum has proven difficult to sequence owing to its complex allotetraploid (A t
D t ) genome. Here we produce a draft genome using 181-fold paired-end sequences …

Signed languages are not as pervasive a conversational medium as spoken languages due
to the history of institutional suppression of the former and the linguistic hegemony of the …