Integrating digital technology in endodontic education: A randomized controlled trial evaluating student self-assessment and perspectives.

Purpose: To assess a modified use of Compare software as a resource to (1) improve students' ability to self-assess their endodontic access preparations (EAPs) and (2) students' opinions of this adjunct.

Methods: Sixty second-year dental students were randomly assigned to two groups (n = 30). A questionnaire was developed and validated.

Continuous cell lines derived from the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, harbor viruses and Wolbachia.

The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae), is a major pest of global citriculture. In the Americas and in Asia, D. citri vectors the phloem-limited bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), which causes the fatal citrus disease huanglongbing, or citrus greening.

Phasmavirus-derived genome sequences and endogenous viral element identified in the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray.

The small hive beetle (SHB), Aethina tumida Murray is an invasive pest of the honey bee. This beetle feeds not only on bee resources within the hive such as honey and pollen, but also on bee brood and dead bees. The impact of this beetle's intimate parasitic association with the honey bee on virus transmission is poorly understood.

CD11B+CD36+ cells are bone anabolic macrophages that limit age-associated bone loss.

Disruptions in the bone remodeling cycle that occur with increasing age lead to degeneration of the skeleton and increased risk of fragility fractures. Our understanding of how bone remodeling within cortical bone is controlled and altered with age in males and females is limited. Here, we generated bone marrow chimeric mice to understand the impacts of age and sex on bone remodeling.

Representative honey bee viruses do not replicate in the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray.

The small hive beetle (SHB), Aethina tumida Murray, is an invasive pest of the honey bee and causes significant damage through the consumption of colony resources and brood. Two assumptions related to honey bee virus transmission have been made about SHB: first, that SHB vectors honey bee viruses and second, that these viruses replicate in SHB based on the detection of both positive and negative strand viral genomic RNA within SHB. To clarify the role of SHB in virus transmission, we sought to address whether selected honey bee viruses replicate in SHB.