Contents
July 2016
Vol 2, Issue 7
Vol 2, Issue 7
Contents
Research Articles
- Bigger is better: Improved nature conservation and economic returns from landscape-level mitigation
Landscape-level mitigation provides cost-effective conservation and can be used to promote sustainable development.
- Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion
The recent observed expansion of the Indo-Pacific warm pool is robustly attributed to anthropogenic greenhouse gas increases.
- PPM1A silences cytosolic RNA sensing and antiviral defense through direct dephosphorylation of MAVS and TBK1
An enzyme safeguards antiviral recognition machinery to avoid leaking and excessive danger response.
- Giant nonreciprocal emission of spin waves in Ta/Py bilayers
A strong nonreciprocal spin wave emission is realized using Ta/Py bilayers for switch and logic applications.
- Copper-induced structural conversion templates prion protein oligomerization and neurotoxicity
Copper induces prion protein misfolding, aggregation, and neurotoxicity.
- Subatomic deformation driven by vertical piezoelectricity from CdS ultrathin films
Vertical piezoelectricity in atomic thin materials could have applications in sensors and microelectromechanical devices.
- In situ pneumococcal vaccine production and delivery through a hybrid biological-biomaterial vector
A disease-specific, hybrid vector is developed for pneumococcal disease vaccine.
- Early scattering of the solar protoplanetary disk recorded in meteoritic chondrules
The presence of magmatic magnetites in chondrules implies their formation under impact-generated oxidizing conditions.
- Long-term dynamics of adaptive evolution in a globally important phytoplankton species to ocean acidification
Phytoplankton may evolve complex plasticity that can affect biogeochemically important traits such as calcification.
- Microscale spatial heterogeneity of protein structural transitions in fibrin matrices
Mechanical loading of fibrin biomaterials induces spatial heterogeneity in protein molecular structure on the microscale.
- Versatile microwave-driven trapped ion spin system for quantum information processing
A quantum register with flexible coupling topology is used to efficiently implement a quantum Fourier transform.
- Fine-grained dengue forecasting using telephone triage services
Calling patterns on a health hotline can accurately forecast dengue cases, 2 to 3 weeks ahead of time, at a subcity level.
- Active micromachines: Microfluidics powered by mesoscale turbulence
An ordered array of symmetric rotors immersed in active turbulence can turn persistently.
- Interface-driven topological Hall effect in SrRuO3-SrIrO3 bilayer
Electronic transport measurements reveal the formation of swirling spin textures, skyrmions, at high-quality oxide interface.
- Heterogeneity of cellular circadian clocks in intact plants and its correction under light-dark cycles
Cellular circadian clocks in a plant work in coordination under light-dark cycles by correcting heterogeneous traits between them.
- Stability of Fe,Al-bearing bridgmanite in the lower mantle and synthesis of pure Fe-bridgmanite
A study of Fe,Al-bearing bridgmanite in Earth‘s mantle and synthesis of pure Fe-bridgmanite with anomalously low compressibility.
- A low upper limit on the subsurface rise speed of solar active regions
Comparison of observations and simulations provides a strong upper limit on the subsurface rise speed of solar active regions.
- Acoustic tweezers via sub–time-of-flight regime surface acoustic waves
Researchers use pulsed excitation to generate localized 2D acoustic tweezers for spatially selective microfluidic patterning.
- 3D meshes of carbon nanotubes guide functional reconnection of segregated spinal explants
Three-dimensional carbon nanotube frameworks favor spinal cord explant rewiring of motor outputs.
- Hierarchical MoS2 tubular structures internally wired by carbon nanotubes as a highly stable anode material for lithium-ion batteries
Hierarchical MoS2 tubular structures internally wired by carbon nanotubes manifest superior lithium storage properties.
- Stabilizing electrodeposition in elastic solid electrolytes containing immobilized anions
Elastic deformation in solid electrolytes with immobilized anions suppresses dendritic electrodeposition of metals.
- Liquid biopsy and therapeutic response: Circulating tumor cell cultures for evaluation of anticancer treatment
A patient-derived CTC culture assay for anticancer drug evaluation to guide therapy for personalized treatment.
- Targeting macrophage necroptosis for therapeutic and diagnostic interventions in atherosclerosis
Necroptosis promotes necrotic core and vulnerable atherosclerosis in humans and mice and is a prospective therapeutic and diagnostic tool.
- Quasi-freestanding epitaxial silicene on Ag(111) by oxygen intercalation
Quasi-freestanding silicene with massless Dirac fermion characteristics has been successfully obtained by oxygen intercalation.
- Protein engineering by highly parallel screening of computationally designed variants
Combining the power of combinatorial screening and computational design for optimal protein engineering.
- High hardness in the biocompatible intermetallic compound β-Ti3Au
A remarkable fourfold increase in hardness of titanium is achieved by the addition of gold, yielding a novel biocompatible material.
- Ultrasensitive molecular sensor using N-doped graphene through enhanced Raman scattering
N-doped graphene can be used as a substrate for different molecules to effectively enhance their Raman scattering signal.
- Terapascal static pressure generation with ultrahigh yield strength nanodiamond
Terapascal static pressure generation is enabled in laboratory due to implementation of nanocrystralline diamond microballs.
- The O2-assisted Al/CO2 electrochemical cell: A system for CO2 capture/conversion and electric power generation
A new approach for converting CO2 to valuable C2 products while producing significant amounts of electrical energy.
- HU multimerization shift controls nucleoid compaction
HU networks control chromatin-like DNA compaction to synchronize bacterial responses for pathogenesis and changing environments.
- Nuclear respiratory factor 1 and endurance exercise promote human telomere transcription
The AMPK/PGC-1α metabolic pathway and nuclear respiratory factor 1 up-regulate human telomere transcription.
- Whole-genome sequence analysis shows that two endemic species of North American wolf are admixtures of the coyote and gray wolf
Genome admixture in two endemic North American wolf species.
- On the enigmatic birth of the Pacific Plate within the Panthalassa Ocean
Reconstruction of how the Pacific Plate originated at a point improves plate reconstructions of the vast ocean around Pangea.
- Large discrete jumps observed in the transition between Chern states in a ferromagnetic topological insulator
A quantum Hall insulator is observed to execute large jumps between metastable Chern states.
- Claisen thermally rearranged (CTR) polymers
Second generation of thermally rearranged polymers presents low temperatures for a complete rearrangement.
- Ultrahigh sensitivity of methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite single crystals to environmental gases
Extremely low surface trap densities and ultrahigh sensitivity to oxygen and water molecules are demonstrated in perovskite single crystals.
- Self-optimized superconductivity attainable by interlayer phase separation at cuprate interfaces
Resolving how and why maximized superconducting amplitude can be self-organized at interfaces opens perspectives for design.
Reviews
- Why marine phytoplankton calcify
Calcification in coccolithophores has high energy demand but brings multiple benefits enabling diversity of ecology and form.
- Cryo-EM studies of the structure and dynamics of vacuolar-type ATPases
V-ATPases are fascinating molecular machines; cryo-EM is providing unprecedented insight into their structure and dynamics.
- Epigenetics and aging
Researchers review how random changes and our environment (for example, diet) determines our life span.