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    Ethical considerations for the age of non-governmental space exploration

    Mounting ambitions and capabilities for public and private, non-government sector crewed space exploration bring with them an increasingly diverse set of space travelers, raising new and nontrivial ethical, le...

    Allen Seylani, Aman Singh Galsinh, Alexia Tasoula, Anu R I in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Spatiotemporal expression and control of haemoglobin in space

    It is now widely recognised that the environment in space activates a diverse set of genes involved in regulating fundamental cellular pathways. This includes the activation of genes associated with blood home...

    Josef Borg, Conor Loy, JangKeun Kim, Alfred Buhagiar in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Epigenomic analysis of KLF1 haploinsufficiency in primary human erythroblasts

    Haploinsufficiency for the erythroid-specific transcription factor KLF1 is associated with hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin (HPFH). Increased HbF ameliorates the symptoms of β-hemoglobinopathies and ...

    Steven Heshusius, Laura Grech, Nynke Gillemans, Rutger W. W. Brouwer in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Aspirin impairs acetyl-coenzyme A metabolism in redox-compromised yeast cells

    Aspirin is a widely used anti-inflammatory and antithrombotic drug also known in recent years for its promising chemopreventive antineoplastic properties, thought to be mediated in part by its ability to induc...

    Gianluca Farrugia, Maria Azzopardi, Christian Saliba, Godfrey Grech in Scientific Reports (2019)