Lepidoptera is one of the most speciose insect orders, causing enormous damage to agricultural and forest crops. Although genome editing has been achieved in a few Lepidoptera for insect controls, most techniques are still limited. Here, by injecting female pupae of the Lepidoptera model species, , gene editing was established using the Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo (ReMOT) control technique.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBone augmentation has an enormous demand in oral clinical treatment. Although there are various options available for clinical management to address it, these approaches could increase patient suffering due to surgical trauma and even cause psychological trauma to the patients. Moreover, presently, there is still a lack of well-considered microinvasive bone augmentation systems to deal with this challenge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnammox-based processes and microbial consortia have drawn extensive attention for their use in high-efficiency wastewater treatment technologies. Metals substantially affect the activity of anammox consortia and the quality of wastewater treatment plant effluent. Here, we explored the role of anammox consortia in terms of metals complexation in both single and multi-metal systems.
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