Six extant species of non-human great apes are currently recognized: Sumatran and Bornean
orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, and chimpanzees and bonobos [1]. However, …

Tandem repeats (TRs) are stretches of DNA that are highly variable in length and mutate
rapidly. They are thus an important source of genetic variation. This variation is highly …

Phenotypic variation with a genetic basis is the raw material for natural selection and evolution.
While it is created by genotypic change, phenotypes are also to some extent robust to …

Objective: People with tuberculosis (TB) are highly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic
due to pre-existing lung damage, leading to a higher risk of complications from Coronavirus …

Nanoparticles are often engineered as a scaffolding system to combine targeting, imaging
and/or therapeutic moieties into a unitary agent. However, mostly overlooked, the …

… are clear biological differences between TB and PsB. TB is representative of active invasion
… be avoided in the routine diagnostic assessment of TB. © 2023 The Authors. The Journal of …

… origin for TB, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), the causative agent of TB, …
In summary, the biology and the epidemiology of human TB have been shaped by the long-…

… TB count in the hotspot as a computational biomarker. We show that the proposed automated
TB … buds and that the hotspot-based TB count is an independent prognosticator in both the …

Optical imaging probes have played a major role in detecting and monitoring a variety of
diseases. In particular, nonlinear optical imaging probes, such as second harmonic generating (…

Background Integrating demography and adaptive evolution is pivotal to understanding the
evolutionary history and conservation of great apes. However, little is known about the …