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Ramos H, Ribeiro M, Araujo A, Silva M, Martins Z, Marin-Saez J, et al.
Food Res Int . 2025 Mar; 205:115907. PMID: 40032454
The intestinal barrier is crucial for gut health, and its dysfunction can lead to chronic inflammatory conditions. Food contaminants like pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs), and polycyclic...
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Ramos H, Reis-Mendes A, Silva M, Ribeiro M, Araujo A, Borges C, et al.
Foods . 2024 Nov; 13(22). PMID: 39594075
Consumers are regularly exposed to well-known food contaminants (FCs), which are typically assessed for risk on an individual basis. However, there is limited knowledge about the overall levels and combinations...
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De Gregorio B, Cody G, Stroud R, Kilcoyne A, Sandford S, Le Guillou C, et al.
Nat Commun . 2024 Aug; 15(1):7488. PMID: 39209830
Primordial carbon delivered to the early earth by asteroids and meteorites provided a diverse source of extraterrestrial organics from pre-existing simple organic compounds, complex solar-irradiated macromolecules, and macromolecules from extended...
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Jones G, Snodgrass C, Tubiana C, Kuppers M, Kawakita H, Lara L, et al.
Space Sci Rev . 2024 Jan; 220(1):9. PMID: 38282745
Here we describe the novel, multi-point Comet Interceptor mission. It is dedicated to the exploration of a little-processed long-period comet, possibly entering the inner Solar System for the first time,...
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Calapez F, Dias R, Cesario R, Goncalves D, Pedras B, Canario J, et al.
Life (Basel) . 2023 Feb; 13(2). PMID: 36836835
Some of the icy moons of the solar system with a subsurface ocean, such as Europa and Enceladus, are the targets of future space missions that search for potential extraterrestrial...
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Yabuta H, Cody G, Engrand C, Kebukawa Y, De Gregorio B, Bonal L, et al.
Science . 2023 Feb; 379(6634):eabn9057. PMID: 36821663
Samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu were collected and brought to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. We investigated the macromolecular organic matter in Ryugu samples and found that it...
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Coelho L, Blais M, Matveev A, Keller-Costa T, Vincent W, Costa R, et al.
Sci Rep . 2022 Jul; 12(1):12379. PMID: 35896693
Missions to detect extraterrestrial life are being designed to visit Europa and Enceladus in the next decades. The contact between the mission payload and the habitable subsurface of these satellites...
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Coelho L, Fernandes Couceiro J, Keller-Costa T, Valente S, Ramalho T, Carneiro J, et al.
Sci Total Environ . 2022 Mar; 827:154286. PMID: 35247410
Current knowledge of the processes that shape prokaryotic community assembly in sea ice across polar ecosystems is scarce. Here, we coupled culture-dependent (bacterial isolation on R2A medium) and culture-independent (high-throughput...
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Coelho L, Madden J, Kaltenegger L, Zinder S, Philpot W, Esquivel M, et al.
Astrobiology . 2021 Dec; 22(3):313-321. PMID: 34964651
With thousands of discovered planets orbiting other stars and new missions that will explore our solar system, the search for life in the universe has entered a new era. However,...
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dIschia M, Manini P, Martins Z, Remusat L, Alexander C, Puzzarini C, et al.
Phys Life Rev . 2021 Mar; 37:65-93. PMID: 33774429
An interdisciplinary review of the chemical literature that points to a unifying scenario for the origin of life, referred to as the Primordial Multifunctional organic Entity (PriME) scenario, is provided...