The human genome contains many thousands of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). While
several studies have demonstrated compelling biological and disease roles for individual …

During the last 3 years, a number of approaches for the normalization of RNA sequencing
data have emerged in the literature, differing both in the type of bias adjustment and in the …

Background: Body weight and body mass index (BMI) are positively related to risk of colon
cancer in men, whereas weak or no associations exist in women. This discrepancy may be …

Background: Early family-level and social-level stressors are both assumed to be the
components of two main path models explaining the association between exposure to …

Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) accounts for 5% of mortality in African children aged<
5 years. Improving the care management and quality of life of patients with SCD requires a …

Viruses in the family Luteoviridae are strictly transmitted by aphids in a non-propagative,
circulative and persistent mode. Virions ingested by aphids successively cross the gut and …

Diversion of prescription drugs is difficult to assess in quality and quantity. This study aimed
to characterize diversion of prescription drugs in France through a comparative analysis of …

Background Propionibacterium freudenreichii is a food grade bacterium consumed both in
cheeses and in probiotic preparations. Its promising probiotic potential, relying largely on the …

Traits contributing to the competence of biocontrol bacteria to colonize plant roots are often
induced in the rhizosphere in response to plant components. These interactions have been …

Aphids are among the rare organisms that can change their reproductive mode across their
life cycle. During spring and summer they reproduce clonally and efficiently by …