Sensor-Based Smart Clothing for Women's Menopause Transition Monitoring.

Aging women usually experience menopause and currently there is no single diagnosing highly-sensitive and -specific test for recognizing menopause. For most employed women at their perimenopause age it is not convenient to visit a clinic for the hormone test, which lasts for consecutive days. This paper develops a suit of sensor-based smart clothing used for home-based and ambulatory health monitoring for women's menopause transition.

A Node-Expressed Transporter OsCCX2 Is Involved in Grain Cadmium Accumulation of Rice.

Excessive cadmium (Cd) accumulation in grains of rice ( L.) is a risk to food security. The transporters in the nodes of rice are involved in the distribution of mineral elements including toxic elements to different tissues such as grains.