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Vol 1, Issue 8
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Research Articles
- Innovative qPCR using interfacial effects to enable low threshold cycle detection and inhibition relief
PCR device amplifies DNA directly from tissue samples and achieves smartphone-based quantification at early thermal cycles.
- Rationally designed graphene-nanotube 3D architectures with a seamless nodal junction for efficient energy conversion and storage
Seamlessly joint graphene-nanotube 3D architectures were created by one-step CVD for efficient energy conversion and storage.
- Trait-mediated trophic cascade creates enemy-free space for nesting hummingbirds
The presence of hawks at their nests alters the foraging height of predatory jays, creating a safe nesting area for hummingbirds.
- Detection of single amino acid mutation in human breast cancer by disordered plasmonic self-similar chain
Novel nanoarray for single molecule detection from peptide mixture.
- Cis-regulatory mechanisms governing stem and progenitor cell transitions
Non-coding DNA elements differentially control stem and progenitor cell transitions required for development.
- Near-IR squaraine dye–loaded gated periodic mesoporous organosilica for photo-oxidation of phenol in a continuous-flow device
A study of dye-loaded organosilica for photo-oxidation.
- Boramino acid as a marker for amino acid transporters
A new class of boramino acids (BAAs) has been developed as the general marker for imaging the expression of amino acid transporters.
- Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Fossil-fuel resources are sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
- An auditory feature detection circuit for sound pattern recognition
Brain neurons form auditory feature detector circuit for song pattern recognition in acoustically communicating crickets.
- Dynamic spectrin/ankyrin-G microdomains promote lateral membrane assembly by opposing endocytosis
Locally dynamic micrometer-scale domains based on spectrin and ankyrin-G determine membrane identity by preventing endocytosis.
- The energetic cost of vision and the evolution of eyeless Mexican cavefish
The loss of vision during the evolution of cave Mexican tetra considerably reduced the energetic burden of neural tissue.
- Snakebites are associated with poverty, weather fluctuations, and El Niño
Snakebites follow snake reproduction and El Niño Southern Oscillation and are exacerbated in economically poor settings.
- Adaptive evolutionary paths from UV reception to sensing violet light by epistatic interactions
The evolution of violet reception by conspicuous and hidden epistasis.
- Pim kinases modulate resistance to FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitors in FLT3-ITD acute myeloid leukemia
Synergy between FLT3 and Pim kinase inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia with FLT3-ITD mutation.
- Autoregulated paracellular clearance of amyloid-β across the blood-brain barrier
Size-selective and passive paracellular diffusion of amyloid-β across tight junctions of the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease.
- Unraveling metamaterial properties in zigzag-base folded sheets
Zigzag-base mechanical metamaterials have the outstanding properties of Miura-ori and expand on its design space.
- Organic printed photonics: From microring lasers to integrated circuits
Flexible organic photonic devices for high-performance optical information processing can be produced via ink-jet printing.
- Unraveling the storage mechanism in organic carbonyl electrodes for sodium-ion batteries
Na-O layer provides Na+ diffusion pathway and storage site, whereas benzene layer provides e−conduction pathway and redox center.
- Polya’s bees: A model of decentralized decision-making
A mathematical model helps explain how the complex social systems of ants and bees make collective decisions.
- Multinational teams and diseconomies of scale in collaborative research
Larger research teams are linked to decreasing impact, whereas contributions by international coauthors result in citation gains.
- Transcriptional regulation of APOBEC3 antiviral immunity through the CBF-β/RUNX axis
HIV hijacks a single host protein to thwart a powerful antiviral defense on two fronts.
- Detection of argon in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
ROSINA/DFMS shows that comets of type 67P/CG likely did not significantly contribute to Earth’s volatile budget.
- Early hominin auditory capacities
Hearing in early hominins may have facilitated an increased emphasis on short-range vocal communication in open habitats.
- Writing in the granular gel medium
The reversible fluid-solid transition in granular gels enables the three-dimensional writing of soft, delicate, macroscopic structures with microscopic detail.
- The shape of terrestrial abundance distributions
Findings of a new, low-dominance distribution of terrestrial abundance: the double geometric.
- Future extreme sea level seesaws in the tropical Pacific
Using climate models forced by increasing greenhouse gases, we find a doubling in extreme sea levels in the tropical Pacific.
- Hierarchical spin-orbital polarization of a giant Rashba system
Angle-resolved photoemission reveals the emergence of complex orbital texture concomitant with spin splitting in the Rashba compound BiTeI.
- The chlorine isotope fingerprint of the lunar magma ocean
The unusually heavy Cl of the Moon is related not to degassing of dry magmas but rather to the loss of Cl from the lunar magma ocean.
- Nectar uptake in bats using a pumping-tongue mechanism
Bats with grooved tongues show unusual morphological specialization in drinking nectar.
- A phylogenomic data-driven exploration of viral origins and evolution
A study of the evolution of the proteomic makeup of cells and viruses using protein structural and functional data.
- Direct quantification of energy intake in an apex marine predator suggests physiology is a key driver of migrations
Archival tagging indicates physiological constraints on energy intake in wild Pacific bluefin tuna in the California Current.
- Direct observation of an attosecond electron wave packet in a nitrogen molecule
Attosecond electron wave packet in a molecule is captured by the pump-probe method with a-few-pulse attosecond pulse train.
