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La epigenética, concepción frecuentemente atribuida a Corad Waddington (1905-1975), ha estado estrechamente relacionada a una lucha en el campo intelectual por más de dos mil años. Postulada por Aristóteles bajo la denominación de epigénesis, en…

For many years now, targeting deregulation within cancer cells’ metabolism has appeared as a promising strategy for the development of more specific and efficient cancer treatments. Recently, numerous reports highlighted the crucial role of the…

To describe the mental health situation and job stress levels of Funeral Service Workers (FSW) during the first months of the pandemic. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Canada between May and July 2020. Funeral service professional…

This is a new beginning. It started just like a fiction movie. In December 2019, a new cluster of pneumonia caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was first identified in Wuhan, China. Without any mercy, it became a pandemic and left no…

A agricultura convencional destaca-se como uma das atividades mais impactantes ao meio ambiente. O presente trabalho conta com pesquisa bibliográfica de campo sobre técnicas sustentáveis utilizadas na produção de hortaliças, com a intenção de…

Abstract Background Enhancers are non-coding DNA fragments which are crucial in gene regulation (e.g. transcription and translation). Having high locational variation and free scattering in 98% of non-encoding genomes, enhancer identification is,…

There are contrasting results concerning the effect of reactive school closure on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. To shed light on this controversy, here we develop a data-driven computational model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to investigate mechanistically…

Using data from the WHO’s Situation Report on the COVID-19 pandemic from 21 January 2020 to 30 March 2020 along with other health, demographic, and macroeconomic indicators from the WHO’s Application Programming Interface and the World Bank’s…

It is a challenging task to manage a perishable food supply chain (PFSC), due to the product’s short lifetime and to demand uncertainty. Even worse is the fact that, because of the multitude of participating stakeholders in production, distribution,…

At present, new coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) is circulating worldwide. The pathogen of this coronavirus pneumonia is named SARS-CoV-2. The virus has a long incubation period and is highly contagious. There is currently no specific targeted drug…