The sheep lung has long been used to model aspects of the human lung, both its normal development and pathological changes that occur in ovine models of lung disease. The similarities between the two species provide an opportunity to investigate phases of lung development that are not accessible for investigation in humans, for example later in gestation. Here we use single cell (sc) RNA-seq to investigate the developmental dy...

The growing coastal development, dredging and dumping activities, overfishing and expansion of marine cage culture in Nha Trang Bay ( NTB ) of Central Vietnam since the beginning of the 2000s have resulted in a dramatic decrease of live coral cover. Surveys conducted in April–May 2013 and the same period in 2014 revealed that with an increase in distance from the outer part of the bay towards the mainland, the rivers’ influxes...