Contents
Vol 1, Issue 4
Contents
Research Articles
- Screening system for drug-induced arrhythmogenic risk combining a patch clamp and heart simulator
Finding the silent skipped beat: Predicting arrhythmia-causing drugs using a high-throughput hybrid heart simulator.
- Artificial rheotaxis
Synthetic self-propelled particles that migrate upstream mimic bacteria.
- What happens to your brain on the way to Mars
Animal models reveal an unexpected sensitivity of mature neurons in the brain to the charged particles found in space.
- Radially oriented mesoporous TiO2 microspheres with single-crystal–like anatase walls for high-efficiency optoelectronic devices
Uniform mesoporous single-crystal TiO2 spheres with radial channels from driving orientation assembly can be used for energy storage.
- Curious kinetic behavior in silica polymorphs solves seifertite puzzle in shocked meteorite
High-pressure experiments have revealed that seifertite metastably forms at much lower pressures than previously thought.
- Therapy using implanted organic bioelectronics
Implanted organic bioelectronics provide possible alternative to existing pain treatments.
- Structure of the mycobacterial ATP synthase Fo rotor ring in complex with the anti-TB drug bedaquiline
Structure and inhibition mechanism of the anti-TB drug bedaquiline bound to the ATP synthase rotor from Mycobacteria.
- Twentieth century turnover of Mexican endemic avifaunas: Landscape change versus climate drivers
Evaluation of various climate change factors on Mexican bird populations shows temperature has the strongest influence.
- Strontium isotopes delineate fine-scale natal origins and migration histories of Pacific salmon
Strontium isotopes simultaneously delineate fine-scale natal habitats and migrations of Pacific salmon harvested during a coastal commercial fishery.
- Morphogenesis and mechanostabilization of complex natural and 3D printed shapes
3D printing demonstrates causality between natural shape selection as evolutionary outcome and the mechanostabilization of seashells.
- Critical flow and dissipation in a quasi–one-dimensional superfluid
The slowdown of a superflow through a nanoscale pipe is measured and quantified.
- Activation of GTP hydrolysis in mRNA-tRNA translocation by elongation factor G
Cryo-EM study reveals key molecular structural features for activation of guanosine triphosphate cleavage by EF-G during translocation.
- Why resilience is unappealing to social science: Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience
Pluralism drawing on core social scientific concepts would facilitate integrated sustainability research.
- Imaging atomic-scale effects of high-energy ion irradiation on superconductivity and vortex pinning in Fe(Se,Te)
Atomic-scale imaging reveals how individual impact sites of high-energy ions prevent the disruptive motion of magnetic vortices.
- High-performance transistors for bioelectronics through tuning of channel thickness
Transistors with tunable transconductance allow high-quality recordings of human brain rhythms.
- Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures
Ocean warming is a predicting factor for typhoon intensity.
- Isotopically enhanced triple-quantum-dot qubit
Three coupled quantum dots in isotopically purified silicon enable all-electrical qubit control with long coherence time.
- Stereopsis is adaptive for the natural environment
The visual system allocates its limited computational resources for stereoscopic vision in a manner that exploits regularities in the binocular input from the natural environment.
- Tailoring pathway modularity in the biosynthesis of erythromycin analogs heterologously engineered in E. coli
A redesigned production process enables expanded molecular variation and altered bioactivity for the antibiotic erythromycin.
Review
- Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores
The collapsing populations of large herbivores will have extensive ecological and social consequences.