Routine thoracic surgery could be performed safely during the COVID-19 pandemic
A study in the
Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO) comparing surgeries performed at one Chinese hospital in 2019 with a similar date range during the COVID-19 pandemic found that routine thoracic surgery and invasive examinations were performed safely. The
JTO is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.
Wentao Fang, MD, chief director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China and his colleagues analyzed the number of elective procedures by a single surgeon team between 2019 and 2020 and compared the clinicopathological characteristics, surgical procedures and perioperative results of this year with the corresponding period last year.
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New opportunities to create compaction-resistant crops that are able to grow in the hardest of soils could be on the horizon thanks to a scientific breakthrough.
Researchers discovered how the plant signal ethylene causes roots to stop growing in hard soils. But this signal can be “switched off” to allow roots to punch through compacted soil.
Researchers used X-ray computed tomography scanners at the Hounsfield Facility at the University of Nottingham to visualise how plant roots respond to compacted soil.
“Understanding how roots penetrate hard soils has huge implications for agriculture, as this knowledge will be crucial for breeding crops that are more resilient to soil compaction,” said Malcolm Bennett, from the University of Nottingham School of Biosciences.
New discovery paves way for crops to be grown in damaged soils
15 January 2021 |
Hard soils represent a challenge to agriculture that can reduce crop yields over 50%
Scientists have discovered a signal that causes roots to stop growing in hard soils which can be ‘switched off’ to allow them to punch through, a finding which may have huge implications for agriculture.
The discovery could help plants grow in even the most damaged soils, according to scientists from the University of Nottingham and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
They found how the plant signal ‘ethylene’ causes roots to stop growing in hard soils, but after this signal is disabled, roots are able to push through compacted soil.