Emerging and re-emerging epidemic diseases pose an ongoing threat to global health. Currently, Enterobactin and Enterobactin derivatives have gained interest, owing to their potential application in the pharmaceutical ...

Species invasions constitute a major and poorly understood threat to plant-pollinator systems. General theory predicting which factors drive species invasion success and subsequent effects on native ecosystems is particularly ...

It has been proposed that NADP+ -specificity of isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH) evolved as an adaptation of microorganisms to grow on acetate as the sole source of carbon and energy. In Escherichia coli, changing the ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent type of dementia in the elderly, severely affecting functional and executive skills of subjects suffering from this disease. Moreover, the distress of caregivers as well as the ...

Patagonia was the last region of the Americas reached by humans who entered the continent from Siberia similar to 15,000-20,000 y ago. Despite recent genomic approaches to reconstruct the continental evolutionary history, ...

Context: Accurately relating code authorship to commit frequency over multiple software revisions is a complex task. Most of the navigation tools found in common source code versioning clients are often too rigid to formulate ...

Perinatal asphyxia (PA) is a relevant cause of death at the time of labour, and when survival is stabilised, associated with short- and long-term developmental disabilities, requiring inordinate care by health systems and ...

A harmful algal bloom (HAB) of the raphidophyta alga Pseudochattonella cf. verruculosa during the 2016 austral summer (February-March) killed nearly 12% of the Chilean salmon production, causing the worst mass mortality ...

Fluoroacetate dehalogenase is able to cleavage a carbon-fluoride bond, the strongest carbon-halogen bond in nature, in a process initiated by a S(N)2 reaction. The role of the enzyme machinery and particularly of the halogen ...