Submarine ash megabed fed by far-traveled, shoreline-crossing pyroclastic currents from a large explosive volcanic eruption (2025)
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Metcalfe, A., Druitt, T., Pank, K., Kutterolf, S., Preine, J., Kelfoun, K., Hübscher, C., Nomikou, P., Ronge, T. A., Chiyonobu, S., Koukousioura, O., Woodhouse, A., Beethe, S., Manga, M., McIntosh, I., Tominaga, M., Berthod, C., Chen, H., Clark, A., DeBari, S., …Papanikolaou, D. (2025). Submarine ash megabed fed by far-traveled, shoreline-crossing pyroclastic currents from a large explosive volcanic eruption. Science Advances, 11(33), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads9642

Large explosive volcanic eruptions from island volcanoes deliver vast quantities of ash to the marine environment. While many of the transport pathways are understood, those from shoreline-crossing or submarine pyroclastic currents, and their transfo... Read More about Submarine ash megabed fed by far-traveled, shoreline-crossing pyroclastic currents from a large explosive volcanic eruption.

Regenerative Cartilage Treatment for Focal Chondral Defects in the Knee: Focus on Marrow-Stimulating and Cell-Based Scaffold Approaches (2025)
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Migliorini, F., Simeone, F., Bardazzi, T., Memminger, M. K., Pipino, G., Vaishya, R., & Maffulli, N. (in press). Regenerative Cartilage Treatment for Focal Chondral Defects in the Knee: Focus on Marrow-Stimulating and Cell-Based Scaffold Approaches. Cells, 14(15), Article 1217. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells14151217

Focal chondral defects of the knee are a common cause of pain and functional limitation in active individuals and may predispose to early degenerative joint changes. Given the limited regenerative capacity of hyaline cartilage, biologically based sur... Read More about Regenerative Cartilage Treatment for Focal Chondral Defects in the Knee: Focus on Marrow-Stimulating and Cell-Based Scaffold Approaches.

Spatial distribution of Culex mosquitoes across England and Wales, July 2023 (2025)
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Widlake, E., Wilson, R., Pilgrim, J., Vaux, A. G. C., Tanianis-Hughes, J., Haziqah-Rashid, A., Sherlock, K., Delnicka, A., Simpson, A., Abbott, A. J., Johnston, C. J., Martin, J., Barlow, K., Aliski, E., Shiels, S., Gandy, S., Biddlecombe, S. M., de Klerk, J., Sedda, L., Medlock, J. M., …Blagrove, M. S. C. (in press). Spatial distribution of Culex mosquitoes across England and Wales, July 2023. Parasites and Vectors, 18(1), Article 337. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-025-06975-w

Background: With medically important arboviruses such as West Nile virus (WNV) circulating in Europe and Usutu virus (USUV) currently present in the UK, it is imperative to identify areas in the UK at risk of establishment and spread of these viruses... Read More about Spatial distribution of Culex mosquitoes across England and Wales, July 2023.

Carboniferous and Early Permian Magmatism in England (2025)
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Sheldrick, T. C., Hahn, G., Antoshechkina, P. M., Norry, M. J., Egan, S. S., Barry, T. L., Gan, C., Wilkinson, C. M., Gibson, S. A., & Ewan, C. A. (2025). Carboniferous and Early Permian Magmatism in England. Journal of Petrology, Article egaf063. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaf063

The cause of widespread Carboniferous and Early Permian magmatism that occurred across northern Europe and the United Kingdom remains enigmatic. New 40Ar-39Ar radiometric dating reveals that some of the earliest manifestations of alkaline to sub-alka... Read More about Carboniferous and Early Permian Magmatism in England.

High prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds (2025)
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Dunn, J. C., & Clegg, S. R. (in press). High prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 28130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13012-4

Wild birds are a near ubiquitous sight in gardens, offering pleasure to many people through supplementary feeding, song, or other interactions. However, they are also potential carriers of many bacteria, including Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp.,... Read More about High prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria in faecal samples from UK passerine birds.

Volcano-tectonic controls on magmatic evolution at Campi Flegrei, Italy: insights from thermodynamic modelling (2025)
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Amstutz, F. M., Stock, M. J., Smith, V. C., Isaia, R., Vitale, S., Carter, E. J., & Natale, J. (in press). Volcano-tectonic controls on magmatic evolution at Campi Flegrei, Italy: insights from thermodynamic modelling. Journal of Petrology, Article egaf068. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaf068

Campi Flegrei caldera (Naples, southern Italy) is one of the most hazardous volcanoes on Earth, having produced >70 eruptions in the past 15 kyr, and currently showing significant signs of unrest within a densely populated part of Europe. Post-15... Read More about Volcano-tectonic controls on magmatic evolution at Campi Flegrei, Italy: insights from thermodynamic modelling.

Corrosion behavior of Limnoperna fortunei on carbon steel in freshwater environments (2025)
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Liu, Y., He, X., Yang, Y., Yuan, X., Zhou, Z., Bai, X., & Yuan, C. (2025). Corrosion behavior of Limnoperna fortunei on carbon steel in freshwater environments. npj Materials Degradation, 9(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-025-00618-2

Limnoperna fortunei (L. fortunei), a representative macrofouling organism in freshwater environments, causes significant degradation to the surfaces of hydraulic engineering materials through prolonged adhesion. The corrosion behavior of L. fortunei... Read More about Corrosion behavior of Limnoperna fortunei on carbon steel in freshwater environments.

Extended time to maturity in Anopheles coluzzii: Implications of late egg hatch for vector control and transgene fitness (2025)
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Ottih, E. C., Roberts, J. M., Bruce, T. J. A., & Tripet, F. (2025). Extended time to maturity in Anopheles coluzzii: Implications of late egg hatch for vector control and transgene fitness. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12814

Maintaining fitness is an important consideration when mosquitoes are mass‐reared for the deployment of genetic interventions that are designed to suppress populations because released mosquitoes need to compete with wild‐type mosquitoes. Late‐hatchi... Read More about Extended time to maturity in Anopheles coluzzii: Implications of late egg hatch for vector control and transgene fitness.

A scoping review of evidence for the effects of seven global deer species on woody vegetation (2025)
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Gresham, A., Healey, J. R., Lawrence, P. J., Eichhorn, M. P., & Shannon, G. (2025). A scoping review of evidence for the effects of seven global deer species on woody vegetation. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 6(2 - April/June 2025), Article e70044. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70044

Context: Rapid expansion of deer (Cervidae) populations is a concern for forest ecosystems. Despite extensive reviews on how deer affect forests, variation in effects across deer species has received less attention. A lack of focus on species‐specifi... Read More about A scoping review of evidence for the effects of seven global deer species on woody vegetation.

Management of sacroiliac joint pain: current concepts. (2025)
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Migliorini, F., Lucenti, L., Bardazzi, T., Bell, A., Cocconi, F., & Maffulli, N. (2025). Management of sacroiliac joint pain: current concepts. European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 35(1), Article 208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-025-04308-2

Managing sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain is challenging and unpredictable. There are no internationally accepted recommendations. In light of the lack of global consensus and guidelines and the ongoing advancements in management options, a widely accepte... Read More about Management of sacroiliac joint pain: current concepts..

Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Chinese version of the 4 domain sports prom. (2025)
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Sun, Y., Chen, S., Neyret, P., Hutchinson, M., Migliorini, F., Maffulli, N., Górios, C., & Piedade, S. R. (2025). Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Chinese version of the 4 domain sports prom. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 20(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13018-025-05882-1

Background
This work evaluated and validated the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of 4-Domain Sport PROM (4-DSP) into Chinese, assessing its understandability and reproducibility in all questionnaire domains for Chinese-speaking patients.... Read More about Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Chinese version of the 4 domain sports prom..

Towards a 'theory of change' for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution (2025)
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Horton, A. A., Henderson, L., Bowyer, C., Courtene-Jones, W., Garrard, S. L., Kulsum, N. M., McKay, D., Manikarachchige, I., Sreekumar, S., & Stanton, T. (2025). Towards a 'theory of change' for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution. Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-025-00127-8

Socio-oceanography is an emerging field which mobilises insights from natural and social sciences to explore the inter-connectedness of societal relationships with the ocean and to adopt a holistic approach to solving key oceanographic and societal c... Read More about Towards a 'theory of change' for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution.

Intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections for hip osteoarthritis: a level I systematic review (2025)
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Migliorini, F., Pilone, M., Mazzoleni, M. G., Schäfer, L., Katusic, D., & Maffulli, N. (2025). Intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections for hip osteoarthritis: a level I systematic review. European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 35(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-025-04292-7

Purpose: The present systematic review investigated the efficacy of intra-articular hyaluronic acid (HA) viscosupplementation for hip osteoarthritis (OA) in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and whether different molecular weights of HA are a... Read More about Intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections for hip osteoarthritis: a level I systematic review.

A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production (2025)
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Roberts, T. L., Dolan, J. P., Miller, G. J., Lima, M. A. D., & Cosgrove, S. C. (2025). A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5re00127g

We report here the continuous flow synthesis of a high-value sugar nucleotide. Immobilisation of enzymes onto solid carriers permitted transfer of the biocatalysts into packed bed reactors to realise a continuous biocatalytic platform for the synthes... Read More about A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production.

Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant (2025)
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Pakhomov, A., Shapoval, N., Shapoval, A., & Kishkinev, D. (2025). Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant

Seasonal migration in animals is a widespread and complex phenomenon, yet the mechanisms underlying orientation and navigation remain poorly understood in many taxa. While significant progress has been made in migratory birds, where multiple compass... Read More about Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant.

Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms (2025)
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Darras, K. F. A., Rountree, R. A., Van Wilgenburg, S. L., Cord, A. F., Pitz, F., Chen, Y., Dong, L., Rocquencourt, A., Desjonquères, C., Diaz, P. M., Lin, T., Turco, T., Emmerson, L., Bradfer‐Lawrence, T., Gasc, A., Marley, S., Salton, M., Schillé, L., Wensveen, P. J., Wu, S., …Wanger, T. C. (2025). Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(5), Article e70021. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70021

Aim: The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lac... Read More about Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms.

Germline transformation of the West Nile virus and avian malaria vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say using the piggyBac transposon system. (2025)
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Nevard, K., Kaur, R., & Harvey-Samuel, T. (2025). Germline transformation of the West Nile virus and avian malaria vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say using the piggyBac transposon system. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 180(May 2025), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2025.104309

Culex quinquefasciatus Say is a mosquito which acts as a vector for numerous diseases including West Nile virus, lymphatic filariasis and avian malaria, over a broad geographical range. As the effectiveness of insecticidal mosquito control methods de... Read More about Germline transformation of the West Nile virus and avian malaria vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say using the piggyBac transposon system..

Bacterial polysaccharide lyase family 33: Specificity from an evolutionarily conserved binding tunnel (2025)
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Loiodice, M., Drula, E., McIver, Z., Antonyuk, S., Baslé, A., Lima, M., Yates, E. A., Byrne, D. P., Coughlan, J., Leech, A., Mesdaghi, S., Rigden, D. J., Drouillard, S., Helbert, W., Henrissat, B., Terrapon, N., Wright, G. S. A., Couturier, M., & Cartmell, A. (2025). Bacterial polysaccharide lyase family 33: Specificity from an evolutionarily conserved binding tunnel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(7), e2421623122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2421623122

Acidic glycans are essential for the biology of multicellular eukaryotes. To utilize them, microbial life including symbionts and pathogens has evolved polysaccharide lyases (PL) that cleave their 1,4 glycosidic linkages via a β-elimination mechanism... Read More about Bacterial polysaccharide lyase family 33: Specificity from an evolutionarily conserved binding tunnel.

Proteomic profiling of human plasma and intervertebral disc tissue reveals matrisomal, but not plasma, biomarkers of disc degeneration (2025)
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Dube, C. T., Gilbert, H. T. J., Rabbitte, N., Baird, P., Patel, S., Herrera, J. A., Baricevic-Jones, I., Unwin, R. D., Chan, D., Gnanalingham, K., Hoyland, J. A., & Richardson, S. M. (2025). Proteomic profiling of human plasma and intervertebral disc tissue reveals matrisomal, but not plasma, biomarkers of disc degeneration. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 27(1), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-025-03489-9

Background: Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is a common cause of low back pain, and the most symptomatic patients with neural compression need surgical intervention to relieve symptoms. Current techniques used to diagnose IVD degeneration, suc... Read More about Proteomic profiling of human plasma and intervertebral disc tissue reveals matrisomal, but not plasma, biomarkers of disc degeneration.

Long-range directional growth of neurites induced by magnetic forces (2025)
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Nahar, T., Gates, M., Secret, E., Siaugue, J.-M., Fresnais, J., Rotherham, M., Fuller, H. R., Brown, S. J., El Haj, A. J., & Telling, N. D. (2025). Long-range directional growth of neurites induced by magnetic forces. Acta biomaterialia, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2024.12.057

The ability to control the growth and orientation of neurites over long distances has significant implications for regenerative therapies and the development of physiologically relevant brain tissue models. In this study, the forces generated on magn... Read More about Long-range directional growth of neurites induced by magnetic forces.