Environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques are increasingly employed in biodiversity monitoring of terrestrial animals, plants, and fungi, holding great potential to revolutionize biodiversity assessments on ...

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 gold standard detection method is an RT-qPCR with a previous step of viral RNA extraction from the patient sample either by using commercial automatized or manual extraction ...

Abstract: We present a homogenization method for thin metamaterials based on a matched asymptotic expansion technique. We show that a metamaterial with thickness e and periodicity h can be replaced by ...

For Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) detection, shell eggs have been homogenized with stomachers, with electric blenders, and by hand massaging. However, to date, there have been no published reports ...

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In the last two decades, over 100 studies have investigated the structure of the coral microbiome. However, as yet there are no standardized methods applied to sample preservation and preparation, ...

Estimating composite material properties can be computationally expensive and time-consuming. Researchers from Pusan National University (Busan, South Korea) have proposed a reduced basis ...