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Lu**g Li
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Population Genomics of Brassica Species
The genus Brassica contains the most economically valuable cultivated dicotyledonous plants in the world. They provide edible oil, protein, and vegetables for human consumption, as well as fodder for livestock. E...
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Monoclonal Antibodies: From Structure to Therapeutic Application
The exciting field of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) had its origins when Köhler and Milstein presented their murine hybridoma technology in 1975 (Kohler, Milstein. Nature. 256(5517):495–497, 1975). ...
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Prosthetic Vascular Grafts: Past, Present, and Future
Prosthetic vascular grafts (PVGs) have made a striking progress during the past more than 100 years. Dacron and ePTFE are the two main PVGs. Even now we enter into the endoascular era, both of the PVGs have be...
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Total Artificial Heart
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and a significant public health problem in most industrialized nations. Since 1900, it has been the leading cau...
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Capsaicin Receptor TRPV1: Biophysics, Physiology, and Pharmacology
The animal receptor for capsaicin, an important metabolite found in chili peppers that bestows the signature spiciness, is TRPV1 (Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1). It is a cation channel that allows c...
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Drug Delivery Systems and Cardiovascular Disease
Clinically, with the treatment of cardiovascular disease in addition to surgery and interventional therapy, drug therapy is also a common means. With the development of medicine, new dosage forms and new techn...
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Polymer-Based Nanotechnology to Combat the Emergence of Drug Resistance in Bacteria
Multidrug-resistant bacteria are posing a great threat to human beings. To address that challenge, polymer-based nanomaterials have come into the spotlight recently. Polymers have a great variety in chemical c...
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Population Genomics of Weedy Crop Relatives: Insights from Weedy Rice
Weedy crop relatives can evolve as a byproduct of the domestication process, and most modern crop species have conspecific or congeneric weedy relatives. These weedy relatives invade crop fields and aggressive...
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Microbial Compartments and Their Biomedical Applications
Microbial compartments (MCs) are nanostructures mainly composed of proteins and functionally similar to the organelles of eukaryotes. Therefore, MCs are also termed as protein cages. In MCs, toxic or vulnerabl...
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Cell-Free Display Techniques for Protein Evolution
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) with flexibility and controllability can provide a powerful platform for high-throughput screening of biomolecules, especially in the evolution of peptides or proteins. In th...
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Animal Models of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an important zoonotic disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex and has a significant impact on public health. Animal models are suitable tools to mimic the cl...
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The Flexible and Wearable Pressure Sensing Microsystems for Medical Diagnostics
The flexible wearable pressure sensor has the unique advantages of being lightweight and low cost and having good flexibility, and it has received extensive attention as a result of its great application poten...
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Correction to: Therapeutics and Diagnostics Discovery
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Synthetic Biology-Related Multiomics Data Integration and Data Mining Techniques
The success of a synthetic biology project is heavily dependent on omics studies, while multiomics data integration and data mining techniques have served as the foundation for rational synthetic biology work....
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Biomanufacturing by In Vitro Biotransformation (ivBT) Using Purified Cascade Multi-enzymes
In vitro biotransformation (ivBT) refers to the use of an artificial biological reaction system that employs purified enzymes for the one-pot conversion of low-cost materials into biocommodities such as ethano...
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Flax Genomic Resources and Databases
Flax is an important crop producing high-quality fiber from its stem and seeds that are rich in omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA). During the past decades, studies on flax have produced large amounts of data,...
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Sarcodon imbricatus (L.) P. Karst. - BANKERACEAE
Sarcodon imbricatus (L.) P. Karst. - BANKERACEAE
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Producing N-Containing Chemicals from Biomass for High Performance Thermosets
Chemicals containing nitrogen atoms or N-containing chemicals (NCCs) are pivotal building blocks for polymers and composites that have high interest in technological fields, especially when they can be endowed...
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Downstream Processing of Medicinal Mushroom Products
Medicinal mushrooms are higher fungi that consist of ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, and imperfect fungi. They have been long used as tonic and traditional medicine in East Asia, Europe, and Africa. Contemporary ...
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The Structure of Rice Starch and its Application
Multiple scales of starch structure are introduced from micro to macro in detail. First, the fine molecular structures of rice starch are illustrated including the wholebranched rice starch molecular structure...
