Arsenic contamination in rice, caused by the use of arsenic-laden groundwater for irrigation, is a growing global concern, affecting over 150 million people. To address this, researchers hypothesized that genetically modifying rice plants with arsenic-resistant genes could reduce arsenic uptake and allow the plants to detoxify arsenic, making them safer to consume.
Read More...Browse Articles
Exploring a new mechanism controlling thermogenesis of adipose tissue

The effect of other neuroendocrine hormones in the regulation of adipose tissue thermogenesis.
Read More...Does emotion regulation moderate the relationship between self-esteem and social desirability?

The authors investigate the relationship between self-esteem, social desirability, and emotion regulation in children and adolescents.
Read More...Long-run effects of minimum wage on labor market dynamics

The authors looked at potential downstream effects of raising the minimum wage. Specifically they focused on taxable wages, employment, and firm counts.
Read More...Using text embedding models as text classifiers with medical data

This article describes the classification of medical text data using vector databases and text embedding. Various large language models were used to generate this medical data for the classification task.
Read More...Maternal mortality rates in the United States correlated with social determinants of health

This article helps in understanding the effect of various social determinants on maternal mortality in the United States. It explains the relationship between maternal mortality rates and factors like race, income, education, and health insurance access.
Read More...An in vitro comparative analysis of the growth factors present in FBS vs PLAY®

Here the authors performed a comparative analysis to investigate the viability of using PLAY® instead of fetal bovine serum (FBS) as a growth medium to culture cells with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
Read More...Part of speech distributions for Grimm versus artificially generated fairy tales

Here, the authors wanted to explore mathematical paradoxes in which there are multiple contradictory interpretations or analyses for a problem. They used ChatGPT to generate a novel dataset of fairy tales. They found statistical differences between the artificially generated text and human produced text based on the distribution of parts of speech elements.
Read More...The effect of music on teenagers in combatting stress and improving performance

Here, the researchers investigated how exposure to active versus passive music affects a teenager's ability to perform a challenging task, namely a Sudoku puzzle, under stressful conditions. Following testing 75 high school teenagers split into two group, the researchers found that singing in a choir (active music) yielded a greater improvement in performance compared to passive listening for brief time periods.
Read More...Lactic acid bacteria protect the growth of Solanum lycopersicum from Sodium dodecyl sulfate

Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), a detergent component, can harm plant growth when it contaminates soil and waterways. Authors explored the potential of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) to mitigate SDS-induced stress on plants.
Read More...