BACKGROUND: Converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added chemicals using engineered cyanobacteria is a promising strategy to tackle the global warming and energy shortage issues. However, most cyanobacteria are autotrophic and use CO2 as a sole carbon source, which makes it h...
Excessive salt intake is a widespread health issue observed in almost every country around the world. A high salt diet (HSD) has a strong correlation with numerous diseases, including hypertension, chronic kidney disease and autoimmune disorders. However, the mechanisms underlying HSD-promotion o...
Pigeons (Columba livia) are widely kept as domesticated pets worldwide, and may have adapted to captivity through the evolutionarily specialized ability to produce ‘milk’ in the crops of both male and female parents via rapid proliferation and shedding of lipid- and protein-enriched epithelial ce...