New life science studies with muons and radioactive nuclei

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 189-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Nagamine
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2016 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 02C107 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kitagawa ◽  
A. G. Drentje ◽  
T. Fujita ◽  
M. Muramatsu ◽  
K. Fukushima ◽  
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Polar Record ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (111) ◽  
pp. 595-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Curtis

The study of marine life from the bottom of Arctic and sub-Arctic seas has long been a topic of scientific interest, and such work represents an important part of contemporary biological research in the polar regions. Contributions to this field have been made through the collective efforts of investigators from many nations over the years and include findings of considerable significance for life science studies as a whole, as well as for specific polar problems. Together with contemporary research on the pelagic and planktonic biota of northern waters, current work on the bottom fauna (benthos) offers much potential for developing our fundamental knowledge of biological processes in the Arctic seas.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingyi Cao ◽  
Yongxiao Yang ◽  
Xinqi Gong

AbstractProteins interact to perform biological functions through specific interface residues. Correctly understanding the mechanisms of interface recognition and prediction are important for many aspects of life science studies. Here, we report a novel architecture to study protein interface residues. In our method, multiple dimensional space was built on some meaningful features. Then we divided the space and put all the surface residues into the regions according to their features’ values. Interestingly, interface residues were found to prefer some grids clustered together. We obtained excellent result on a public and verified data benchmark. Our approach not only opens up a new train of thought for interface residue prediction, but also will help to understand proteins interaction more deeply.


Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2353
Author(s):  
Abudusaimaiti · Maierdiyali ◽  
Lin Wang ◽  
Yunchao Luo ◽  
Zhongqiu Li

Environmental conditions strongly affect experimental animals. As a model organism, zebrafish has become important in life science studies. However, the potential effect of living environment on their behavior and physiology is often overlooked. This work aimed to determine whether tank size affects zebrafish behavior and physiology. Tests on shelter leaving, shelter seeking, shoaling, stamina, and pepsin and cortisol levels were conducted. Results showed that zebrafish behavior is easily affected by changes on the tank size. Fish that lived in small tanks behaved less boldly, had poor stamina, and spent much time on movement. Sex differences in behavior were only evident in the shelter seeking tests. Tank size had no effect on pepsin and cortisol, but cortisol concentrations in males were lower than those in females. This study suggests that zebrafish behavior is easily influenced by their living environment, and future related studies should consider their living space.


2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Alan T. Branco

Development of civilizations and the technology of Development improvement of crop and animals have been under human control for more than 10.000 years. Despite the term Genetics started being employed a few centuries ago, its practice is ancient and responsible for thriving of the human society to the point we see now. The recent advances in this fi eld started with the theories of evolution, mathematical models to predict traits, and studies at cellular level. The explosion of knowledge on the last few decades associated with the advancing of internet and computers led to advent of a new discipline in genetics: genomics. Here is discussed the transition from genetics to genomics and some of the main factors that were responsible for this progress. Nowadays genomics is part of most of life science studies and the outcomes are leading to outstanding discoveries on how the genome is precisely concerted; the fi ndings have been crucial to understand human illness and for development of personalized and more precise medical treatment.


2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumar Girish

A biological database is a big, structured body of continuous information, generally connected with computerized software intended to update, query, and recover information elements deposited within the framework. A straightforward database could be a single folder comprising several data, each carrying the same number of data. Such famous databases are GenBank from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, SwissProt from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and PIR from the Protein Information Resource. Biological databases are bibliotheques of life science data, gathered from science studies, published literature, high-performance experimental technology, and computational analysis. Here we brefly described some recently published molecular databases.


Author(s):  
Veronica Tozzo ◽  
Chloé-agathe Azencott ◽  
Samuele Fiorini ◽  
Emanuele Fava ◽  
Andrea Trucco ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
A. D. Pant

Positive muon is a spin half elementary particle lies in the second generation leptons in standard model of particles. It has been used as a sensitive magnetic (spin) probe for study of life and materials. Due to its special characteristics – 100% polarization and asymmetric decay to positron, it provides information about local electronic and spin states of material in which it stops. The asymmetry, relaxation of muon and its charge states in materials provide information about the interested phenomena. For life sciences study, muon can probe the dynamics of electron, proton, ions, H, O2, reaction dynamics, catalytic processes, concentration of molecules, magnetic behaviors, etc. in the biosamples. Here, the applications of positive muon to understand the life related phenomena are reviewed.


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