Ireland Science News API

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            "description": "Scientists have used a tiny plastic obstacle course to find out if sperm would struggle to “navigate” during sex in space.",
            "content": "Scientists have used a tiny plastic obstacle course to find out if sperm would struggle to “navigate” during sex in space.\nSome particularly resilient sperm did make it through the course, suggesting that conceiving children in space would be possibl... [2660 chars]",
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            "description": "Finding correlations in spatial gene expression is fundamental in spatial transcriptomics, as co-expressed genes within a tissue are linked by regulation, function, pathway, or cell type. Yet, sparsity and noise in spatial transcriptomics data pose significant analytical challenges. Here, we introduce Smoothie, a pipeline that denoises spatial transcriptomics data with Gaussian smoothing and constructs and integrates genome-wide co-expression networks. Utilizing implicit and explicit parallelization, Smoothie scales to datasets exceeding 100 million spatially resolved spots with fast run times and low memory usage. We demonstrate how co-expression networks measured by Smoothie enable precise gene module detection, functional annotation of uncharacterized genes, linkage of gene expression to genome architecture, and multi-sample comparisons to assess stable or dynamic gene expression patterns across tissues, conditions, and time points. Overall, Smoothie provides a scalable and versatile framework for extracting deep biological insights from high-resolution spatial transcriptomics data. A spatial transcriptomics pipeline enabling efficient Gaussian smoothing, gene co-expression network clustering, and multi-dataset integration via second-order correlation analysis. Code designed for broad compatibility across spatial platforms.",
            "content": "Zhang, B. & Horvath, S. A general framework for weighted gene co-expression network analysis. Stat. Appl. Genet. Mol. Biol. 4, 1 (2005).\nLangfelder, P. & Horvath, S. WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis. BMC Bioinforma. 9, 55... [8665 chars]",
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            "description": "The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was previously believed.",
            "content": "By Stephen Beech\nThe discovery of a new ape species that lived in Egypt 17 million years ago is \"reshaping\" the understanding of evolution.\nThe fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather ... [4952 chars]",
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