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Directional centroid trajectories reveal shifting fire activity across Brazilian biomes

Abstract Understanding how fire activity reorganizes across space is key to interpreting long-term interactions among climate variability, land-use change, and integrated fire management in Brazil. Yet this reorganization is difficult to read directly: annual maps of millions of...

European joint programme HBM4EU - Bridging science and policy: experiences and lessons learned from the key partners in the scientific steering of the initiative

The European Joint Programme HBM4EU was established to address politically relevant questions on chemical risks to public health through a targeted human biomonitoring research programme. Running from 2017 to 2022, it was co-financed by the EU's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovati...

Assessing the Immunological Safety of Silk Fibroin Nanoparticles: An In Vitro Study With Primary Human Immune Cells

Biomaterials for drug delivery must be biodegradable, nontoxic, and must not trigger inflammatory or immune responses. Silk fibroin (SF) is a natural polymer with exceptional mechanical strength and notable biological properties. In this study, the immunogenicity and inflammatory...