Background While porcine Neonatal Pancreatic Cell Clusters (NPCCs) were potential alternative source of islets, their immaturity and heterogeneity make them inefficiently ameliorate hyperglycemia in rodents. Our previous work showed that NPCCs regress to a transitional-like state immediately after isolation and undergo dynamic transcriptional changes during short-term in vitro culture. The present study aimed to further deline...

Restaurant wastewater (RWW) represents an abundant yet largely unexplored nutrient source for enriching ureolytic microbial consortia applicable to microbial-induced calcite precipitation (MICP). This study characterised RWW collected from a food-service establishment in Johor, Malaysia (COD 1,341 mg/L; BOD 837 mg/L; pH 6.8), and systematically evaluated its capacity to support indigenous ureolytic bacterial enrichment across...

Adiantum capillus‐veneris is a species with a worldwide distribution, exhibiting considerable morphological variation, with several infraspecific names applied. Among these infraspecific taxa, A. capillus‐veneris subspecies lanyuanum can be easily distinguished from typical A. capillus‐veneris by its small and 1‐pinnate fronds. This form has been recorded from a few insular populations in Taiwan and Japan, typically inhabiting...

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident released radionuclides directly into the ocean as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. This material has been transported across the Pacific Ocean and detected in the northeastern Pacific. We began a surface ocean 129 I monitoring program a few months after this disaster in June 2011, with samples from Scripps Pier, La Jolla, California, USA, with the...

Deep‐diving surveys enable observations of new features of behavioural and functional dimensions of the fish that are typically missing from specimen‐based taxonomy. This study documents three rare armoured searobins (Peristediidae: Scalicus engyceros , Paraheminodus murrayi , Peristedion liorhynchus ) in Xianbei Seamount, Zhongsha Islands and Shenhu Canyon in the South China Sea. Not seen in the dead specimen, the fish in lif...