The number of stem/progenitor cells available can profoundly impact tissue homeostasis and the response to injury or disease.Here, we propose that an atypical PKC, Prkci, is a key player in regulating the switch from Racks an expansion to a differentiation/maintenance phase via regulation of Notch, thus linking the polarity pathway with the control

During the Second World War a brutal and distinctly complex war was fought in Yugoslavia.It was a mixture of an anti-fascist struggle for liberation as well as an ideological, civil, inter-ethnic and religious war, which witnessed a holocaust and genocide against Jews and Serbs.At least a million Yugoslavs died in that war, most of them ethnic Serb

Microbial natural products have been a cornerstone of the pharmaceutical industry, but the supply of novel bioactive secondary metabolites has diminished due to extensive exploration of the most easily accessible sources, namely terrestrial Streptomyces species.The Persian Gulf is a unique habitat for marine sponges, which contain diverse communiti

Visual servoing is widely used in the peg-in-hole assembly due to the uncertainty of pose.Humans can easily align the peg with the hole according to key visual points/edges.By imitating human behavior, we propose P2HNet, a learning-based neural network that can directly extract desired landmarks for visual servoing.To avoid collecting and annotatin

Rising platemeters are commonly used in Ireland and New Zealand for managing intensive pastures.To assess the applicability of a commercial rising platemeter operating with a microsonic sensor to estimate herbage mass with its own equation, the objectives were (i) to validate the original equation; (ii) to identify possible factors hampering its ac