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Gene-Like Precise Construction of Functional DNA Materials
The traditional construction of biomaterials is based on “modification and trial-error screening” strategies, which are less effective and lack of rational design. In recent years, great efforts have been devo...
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Functional XNA and Biomedical Application
Functional nucleic acids can be generated in the laboratory by in vitro selection, which produces functional DNA and RNA molecules with user-defined properties such as ligand-binding affinity (i.e., aptamer) a...
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Recent Technological Advances in Tea Quality and Safety
Tea is one of the world’s three most popular beverages, so the detection of its quality (physical, chemical, microbiological, and classified parameters), as well as its safety (inorganic and organic contaminan...
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Functional XNA and Biomedical Application
Functional nucleic acids can be generated in the laboratory by in vitro selection, which produces functional DNA and RNA molecules with user-defined properties such as ligand-binding affinity (i.e., aptamer) a...
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Extraction and Assessment Methods as Well as Resources of Natural Antioxidants in Foods and Herbs
Antioxidants could scavenge free radicals in the human body, and prevent and treat diseases induced by oxidative stress. In addition, antioxidants could delay the food spoilage, discoloration, and rancidity ca...
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Gene-Like Precise Construction of Functional DNA Materials
The traditional construction of biomaterials is based on “modification and trial-error screening” strategies, which are less effective and lack of rational design. In recent years, great efforts have been devo...
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Extraction and Assessment Methods as Well as Resources of Natural Antioxidants in Foods and Herbs
Antioxidants could scavenge free radicals in the human body, and prevent and treat diseases induced by oxidative stress. In addition, antioxidants could delay the food spoilage, discoloration, and rancidity ca...
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Role of Sphingolipids in Bacterial Infections
Lipids play a very important role in the infection of mammalian cells by different pathogens. Sphingolipids have been shown by numerous recent studies to possess a particularly essential role in infectious biolog...
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Methanogenesis at High Latitudes
Methane (CH4) is the second greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO2), and a quite portion of CH4 is released from permafrost and cold wetlands at high latitudes and altitudes. Global warming is causing permafros...
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Role of Sphingolipids in Bacterial Infections
Lipids play a very important role in the infection of mammalian cells by different pathogens. Sphingolipids have been shown by numerous recent studies to possess a particularly essential role in infectious biolog...
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SemiSWEET-SWEET Glucoside Transporter Superfamily (SLC50)
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Metamobilomics – The Plasmid Metagenome of Natural Environments
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Nucleotide Excision Repair
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Mismatch Repair
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Methanogenesis at High Latitudes
Methane (CH4) is the second greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO2), and a quite portion of CH4 is released from permafrost and cold wetlands at high latitudes and altitudes. Global warming is causing permafros...
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Use of Biosurfactants in Oil Recovery
Biosurfactant-mediated oil recovery has the potential to recover large amounts of crude oil that remain entrapped in oil reservoirs after current oil recovery technologies reach their economic limit. Lipopepti...
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Use of Biosurfactants in Oil Recovery
Biosurfactant-mediated oil recovery has the potential to recover large amounts of crude oil that remain entrapped in oil reservoirs after current oil recovery technologies reach their economic limit. Lipopepti...
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Herbal Medicine
Herbal medicine played an important role during the development of human history as a way to cure and prevent diseases and has longer history than chemical drugs and biological products. Herbal medicine has di...
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Glycopeptide/Glycoprotein Synthesis
Protein glycosylation has dramatically enriched both the functional and structural diversity of proteins in mammals. Due to the non-template biosynthesis of glycoproteins in the nature, glycoproteins always ex...
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HPLC Method for Microanalysis and Pharmacokinetics of Marine Sulfated Polysaccharides, Propylene Glycol Alginate Sodium Sulfate
With the development of glycobiology and glycochemistry, bioactive polysaccharides are more and more widely used in the clinical area due to their anticoagulation, antitumor, immune regulation, antivirus, and ...