Advances in remote sensing of emperor penguins: first multi-year time series documenting trends in the global population.

Like many polar animals, emperor penguin populations are challenging to monitor because of the species' life history and remoteness. Consequently, it has been difficult to establish its global status, a subject important to resolve as polar environments change. To advance our understanding of emperor penguins, we combined remote sensing, validation surveys and using Bayesian modelling, we estimated a comprehensive population trajectory over a recent 10-year period, encompassing the entirety of the species' range.

Where to live? Landfast sea ice shapes emperor penguin habitat around Antarctica.

Predicting species survival in the face of climate change requires understanding the drivers that influence their distribution. Emperor penguins () incubate and rear chicks on landfast sea ice, whose extent, dynamics, and quality are expected to vary substantially due to climate change. Until recently, this species' continent-wide observations were scarce, and knowledge on their distribution and habitat limited.

Clinical outcomes after total excision of transobturator tape inserted for treatment of stress urinary incontinence.

Introduction: Midurethral tapes (MUTs) were the most common surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) between 2008 and 2017. Transobturator tapes were introduced as a novel way to insert MUTs. Some women have experienced life-changing complications, and opt to undergo a total excision of transobturator tape (TETOT).

Trophectoderm non-coding RNAs reflect the higher metabolic and more invasive properties of young maternal age blastocysts.

Increasing female age is accompanied by a corresponding fall in her fertility. This decline is influenced by a variety of factors over an individual's life course including background genetics, local environment and diet. Studying both coding and non-coding RNAs of the embryo could aid our understanding of the causes and/or effects of the physiological processes accompanying the decline including the differential expression of sub-cellular biomarkers indicative of various diseases.

The impact of maternal age on gene expression during the GV to MII transition in euploid human oocytes.

Study Question: Are there age-related differences in gene expression during the germinal vesicle (GV) to metaphase II (MII) stage transition in euploid human oocytes?

Summary Answer: A decrease in mitochondrial-related transcripts from GV to MII oocytes was observed, with a much greater reduction in MII oocytes with advanced age.

What Is Known Already: Early embryonic development is dependent on maternal transcripts accumulated and stored within the oocyte during oogenesis. Transcriptional activity of the oocyte, which dictates its ultimate developmental potential, may be influenced by age and explain the reduced competence of advanced maternal age (AMA) oocytes compared with the young maternal age (YMA).