Some genetic mutations that are expected to completely stop a gene from working surprisingly cause only mild or even no symptoms. Researchers in previous studies have discovered one reason why: cells ...

Abstract: To improve storage efficiency in large-scale clustered storage systems, deduplication that removes duplicate chunks has been widely deployed in distributed ways. Many distributed ...

The rapid proliferation of high-efficacy disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS) has revolutionized the treatment landscape, yet significant gaps remain in how health systems organize ...

Abstract: In a capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP), multiple vehicles are planned to travel for serving customers so as to reduce transportation costs in logistics. Taking each CVRP as a task, ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien ...