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The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
The importance of the gut-brain axis in maintaining homeostasis has long been appreciated. However, the past 15 yr have seen the emergence of the microbiota (the trillions of mi...
WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]
The linguistic and cognitive sciences have severely underestimated the degree of linguistic diversity in the world. Part of the reason for this is that we have projected assumpt...
Randomized Algorithms
Randomized algorithms, once viewed as a tool in computational number theory, have by now found widespread application. Growth has been fueled by the two major benefits of random...
RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference
Abstract Motivation Phylogenies are important for fundamental biological research, but also have numerous applications in biotechnology, agriculture and medicine. Finding the op...
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language\n Representations
Increasing model size when pretraining natural language representations often\nresults in improved performance on downstream tasks. However, at some point\nfurther model increas...
Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
Undetected cases The virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now become pandemic. How has it managed to spread from China to all around the world within 3 to 4 mon...
High Performance of <sup>18</sup>F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography and Contrast-Enhanced CT in a Rapid Outpatient Diagnostic Program for Patients with Suspected Lung Cancer
<b><i>Background:</i></b> The diagnostic evaluation of patients presenting with possible lung cancer is often complex and time consuming. A rapid outpati...
Model Selection and Model Averaging in Phylogenetics: Advantages of Akaike Information Criterion and Bayesian Approaches Over Likelihood Ratio Tests
Model selection is a topic of special relevance in molecular phylogenetics that affects many, if not all, stages of phylogenetic inference. Here we discuss some fundamental conc...
The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Outbreak to pandemic In response to global dispersion of severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), quarantine measures have been implemented around the world...
CRISPR-Cas12a target binding unleashes indiscriminate single-stranded DNase activity
Taking CRISPR technology further CRISPR techniques are allowing the development of technologies for nucleic acid detection (see the Perspective by Chertow). Taking advantages of...