Abstract COVID-19 has spread rapidly around the globe.While there has been a slow down of the spread in some countries, e.g., in China, the African continent is still at the beginning of a potentially wide spread of the virus.Owing to its economic strength and imbalances, South Africa is of particular relevance with regard to the drastic measures t
The little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii) is a flightless ratite formerly found throughout New Zealand but now greatly reduced in distribution.Previous phylogeographic studies of the related brown kiwi (A.mantelli, A.rowi and A.australis), with which little spotted kiwi was once sympatric, revealed extremely high levels of genetic structuring, with
Summary: Many acute and chronic diseases affect the distal lung alveoli.Alveolar Arm Chairs epithelial cell (AEC) lines are needed to better model these diseases.We used de-identified human remnant transplant lungs to develop a method to establish AEC lines.The lines grow well in 2-dimensional (2D) culture as epithelial monolayers expressing lung p