The alarming link between environmental microplastics and health hazards with special emphasis on cancer.

Microplastic contamination is a burgeoning environmental issue that poses serious threats to animal and human health. Microplastics enter the human body through nasal, dermal, and oral routes to contaminate multiple organs. Studies have advocated the existence of microplastics in human breast milk, sputum, faeces, and blood.

Smart technology for mosquito control: Recent developments, challenges, and future prospects.

Smart technology coupled with digital sensors and deep learning networks have emerging scopes in various fields, including surveillance of mosquitoes. Several studies have been conducted to examine the efficacy of such technologies in the differential identification of mosquitoes with high accuracy. Some smart trap uses computer vision technology and deep learning networks to identify live Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus in real time.

Contamination of textile dyes in aquatic environment: Adverse impacts on aquatic ecosystem and human health, and its management using bioremediation.

Textile dyes are the burgeoning environmental contaminants across the world. They might be directly disposed of from textile industries into the aquatic bodies, which act as the direct source for the entire ecosystem, ultimately impacting the human beings. Hence, it is essential to dissect the potential adverse outcomes of textile dye exposure on aquatic plants, aquatic fauna, terrestrial entities, and humans.

Breaking boundaries: Artificial intelligence for pesticide detection and eco-friendly degradation.

Pesticides are extensively used agrochemicals across the world to control pest populations. However, irrational application of pesticides leads to contamination of various components of the environment, like air, soil, water, and vegetation, all of which build up significant levels of pesticide residues. Further, these environmental contaminants fuel objectionable human toxicity and impose a greater risk to the ecosystem.

Decoding the proregenerative competence of regulatory T cells through complex tissue regeneration in zebrafish.

Regulatory T cells (T ) are specific subtype of T cells that play a central role in sustaining self-antigen tolerance and restricting inflammatory tissue damage. More recently, additional direct functions of T in mammalian tissue repair have emerged, but the regenerative potential of T in non-mammalian vertebrates has not been explored despite the latter possessing a highly developed adaptive immune system. Why complex organs such as the caudal fin, heart, brain, spinal cord and retina regenerate in certain non-mammalian vertebrates, but not in mammals, is an interesting but unresolved question in the field of regenerative biology.

The loss of regeneration competency in the animal kingdom at the expense of immunity: A journey in retrospect.

Regeneration refers to the structural growth of damaged organs or tissues and their functional integration into the existing system. Injury induced regenerative response is extremely variable across the animal kingdom. On one hand the early acoelomates can reform the entire animal even from dissociated cells, on the other; the capacity in humans is mostly restricted to wound healing.