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BARDA backs Locus phage therapy for resistant E coli

The US government has provided almost $24 million in funding to Locus Biosciences to support a mid-stage trial of LBP-EC01, a CRISPR-engineered bacteriophage therapy in development for resistant ...
IEEE

LOCUS: learning object classes with unsupervised segmentation

Abstract: We address the problem of learning object class models and object segmentations from unannotated images. We introduce LOCUS (learning object classes with unsupervised segmentation) which ...
eLife

Descending locus coeruleus noradrenergic signaling to spinal astrocyte subset is required for stress-induced mechanical pain hypersensitivity

This important study identifies a novel role for Hes5+ astrocytes in modulating the activity of descending pain-inhibitory noradrenergic neurons from the locus coeruleus during stress-induced pain ...
PNAS

Ef-cd locus shortens rice maturity duration without yield penalty

Significance Early maturing rice cultivars usually have a low yield, suffering from a shortening maturity duration in comparison with late-maturing ones. Here we demonstrate that shortening of ...