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• Medicinal and food plants in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology: Folk functional foods in Catalonia (Iberian Peninsula)  
  Joan Valles, Ugo D’Ambrosio, Airy Gras, Montse Parada, Montse Rigat, Ginesta Serrasolses and Teresa Garnatje

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• Immunomodulatory role of probiotics in early life  
  Maria J. Rodríguez-Lagunas, Ignasi Azagra-Boronat, Sandra Saldana-Ruíz, Malen Massot-Cladera, Mar Rigo-Adrover, Anna Sabate-Jofre, Angels Franch, Margarida Castell and Francisco J. Pérez-Cano

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• Dietary exposure biomarkers in nutritional intervention and observational studies to discover biomarkers of intake and disease risk through an HPLC-QToF-MS metabolomics approach  
  Mar Garcia-Aloy, Rafael Llorach, Mireia Urpi-Sarda, Rosa Vázquez-Fresno Olga Jáuregui and Cristina Andres-Lacueva

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• Polypurine Reverse Hoogsteen Hairpins as a tool for gene repair and editing  
  Carles Ciudad, Anna Solé, Alex J. Félix and Véronique Noé

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• Research in natural products: Amaryllidaceae ornamental plants as sources of bioactive compounds  
  Laura Torras-Claveria, Luciana Tallini, Francesc Viladomat, and Jaume Bastida

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• Deciphering the stack, a novel bacterial structure, by (cryo-) transmission electron microscopy and (cryo-) electron tomography  
  Lidia Delgado, Carmen López-Iglesias and Elena Mercadé

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• Development of a strategy for the administration of praziquantel to the terrestrial edible snail Cornu aspersum parasitized by Brachylaima sp. metacercariae  
  Laia Gállego and Mercedes Gracenea

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• Strategies against β-amyloid protein as therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease  
  Jaume Folch, Miren Ettcheto, Oriol Busquets, Elena Sánchez-López, Rubén Dario Castro-Torres, Carlos Beas-Zarate, Mercè Pallàs, Jordi Olloquequi, Daniela Jara, M.L. Garcia, Carme Auladell and Antoni Camins

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• Fighting the Influenza A virus. New scaffolds and therapeutic targets  
  Marta Barniol-Xicota and Santiago Vázquez

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