Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected people living and working in UK care homes causing high mortality rates.Vaccinating staff members and residents is considered the most effective intervention to reduce infection and its transmission rates.However, uptake of the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in care homes was
Selection pressures leading to extreme, female-biased sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in spiders continue to be debated.It has been proposed that males of sexually size dimorphic spiders could be small because gravity constrains adult agility (locomotor abilities).Accordingly, small males should achieve higher LUTEIN + ZEAXANTHIN vertical climbing spe
Abstract Methylmercury (MeHg) is converted to inorganic mercury (iHg) in several organs; however, its impact on tissues and cells remains poorly understood.Previously, we established a bacterial organomercury lyase (MerB)-expressing mammalian cell line to overcome the low cell permeability of iHg and investigate its effects.Here, we elucidated the