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**hai Luo
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessRapid summer Russian Arctic sea-ice loss enhances the risk of recent Eastern Siberian wildfires
In recent decades boreal wildfires have occurred frequently over eastern Siberia, leading to increased emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. However, it is unclear what factors have contributed to recent...
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Open AccessA Mendelian randomization study on causal effects of inflammatory bowel disease on the risk of erectile dysfunction
This study aimed to evaluate the causal effects of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and erectile dysfunction (ED) using Mendelian randomization (MR). All datasets were obtained from the public genome-wide asso...
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Open AccessOrigins of Barents-Kara sea-ice interannual variability modulated by the Atlantic pathway of El Niño–Southern Oscillation
Winter Arctic sea-ice concentration (SIC) decline plays an important role in Arctic amplification which, in turn, influences Arctic ecosystems, midlatitude weather and climate. SIC over the Barents-Kara Seas (...
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Open AccessMinimum fertilization at the appearance of the first flower benefits cotton nutrient utilization of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium
There are currently many problems related to excessive fertilizer application, low fertilizer-use efficiency and lack of an agricultural labor force for cotton production in China. Therefore, the objective of ...
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Open AccessLabel propagation method based on bi-objective optimization for ambiguous community detection in large networks
Community detection is of great significance because it serves as a basis for network research and has been widely applied in real-world scenarios. It has been proven that label propagation is a successful str...
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Open AccessArctic amplification is caused by sea-ice loss under increasing CO2
Warming in the Arctic has been much faster than the rest of the world in both observations and model simulations, a phenomenon known as the Arctic amplification (AA) whose cause is still under debate. By analy...
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Open AccessHoney bee Royalactin unlocks conserved pluripotency pathway in mammals
Royal jelly is the queen-maker for the honey bee Apis mellifera, and has cross-species effects on longevity, fertility, and regeneration in mammals. Despite this knowledge, how royal jelly or its components exert...
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Open AccessOptimal pre-plant irrigation and fertilization can improve biomass accumulation by maintaining the root and leaf productive capacity of cotton crop
Cotton is a major cash crop grown worldwide primarily for fiber and oil seed. As the most important cultural practices for cotton production, single pre-plant irrigation and basal fertilization for cotton plan...
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Open AccessManipulation of nuclear architecture through CRISPR-mediated chromosomal loo**
Chromatin loo** is key to gene regulation, yet no broadly applicable methods to selectively modify chromatin loops have been described. We have engineered a method for chromatin loop reorganization using CRI...
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Open AccessStructure of the NS2B-NS3 protease from Zika virus after self-cleavage
The recent outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infections in the Americas represents a serious threat to the global public health. The viral protease that processes viral polyproteins during infection appears as an ...
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Open AccessExample study for granular bioreactor stratification: Three-dimensional evaluation of a sulfate-reducing granular bioreactor
Recently, sulfate-reducing granular sludge has been developed for application in sulfate-laden water and wastewater treatment. However, little is known about biomass stratification and its effects on the biopr...
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Open AccessClC-3 Chloride Channel Proteins Regulate the Cell Cycle by Up-regulating cyclin D1-CDK4/6 through Suppressing p21/p27 Expression in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cells
It was shown in this study that knockdown of ClC-3 expression by ClC-3 siRNA prevented the activation of hypotonicity-induced chloride currents and arrested cells at the G0/G1 phase in nasopharyngeal carcinoma...
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Open AccessGekko japonicus genome reveals evolution of adhesive toe pads and tail regeneration
Reptiles are the most morphologically and physiologically diverse tetrapods, and have undergone 300 million years of adaptive evolution. Within the reptilian tetrapods, geckos possess several interesting featu...
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Open AccessPerformance of genetic risk factors in prediction of trichloroethylene induced hypersensitivity syndrome
Trichloroethylene induced hypersensitivity syndrome is dose-independent and potentially life threatening disease, which has become one of the serious occupational health issues and requires intensive treatment...
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Open AccessThe complex jujube genome provides insights into fruit tree biology
The jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), a member of family Rhamnaceae, is a major dry fruit and a traditional herbal medicine for more than one billion people. Here we present a high-quality sequence for the complex ...
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Identification of genomic alterations in oesophageal squamous cell cancer
Using whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing, this study identifies eight significantly mutated genes in oesophageal squamous cell cancer, including two genes, ADAM29 and FAM135B, not previously associated with ...
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RNA sequencing reveals the complex regulatory network in the maize kernel
RNA sequencing can simultaneously identify exonic polymorphisms and quantitate gene expression. Here we report RNA sequencing of develo** maize kernels from 368 inbred lines producing 25.8 billion reads and ...
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Open AccessThe ClC-3 chloride channel associated with microtubules is a target of paclitaxel in its induced-apoptosis
Recent evidences show that cationic fluxes play a pivotal role in cell apoptosis. In this study, the roles of Cl− channels in paclitaxel-induced apoptosis were investigated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma CNE-2Z cell...
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Open AccessThe oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation
The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca. Here we report the sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads ...
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SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages for the UHP metamorphosed granitoid gneiss in Altyn Tagh and their geological significance
Cathodoluminescence (CL) and mineral inclusions investigations show that zircons from Yinggelisayi UHP metamorphosed granitoid gneiss in Altyn Tagh exhibit core-mantle-rim internal texture with magmatic residu...
